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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR:	McSorley		DATE TYPED:	02/27/99		HB
SHORT TITLE:		Sex Offenses Against Minors				SB	135/aSJC
					ANALYST:		Woodlee/O'Connell

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained		Estimated Additional Impact		Recurring or Non-Rec	Fund Affected
FY99	FY2000	FY99	FY2000	Recurring or Non-Rec	Fund Affected
NFI	NFI	NFI	NFI	NFI	NFI

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Administrative Office of the Courts

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Amendment

The amendment to Senate Bill 135 adds a definition section for force or coercion, great mental anguish, patient, personal injury, psychotherapist, and spouse.

In addition, the amendment deletes the term " in a position of authority over the child," and replaces it with:

For a second degree felony for Criminal Sexual Penetration it includes " a psychotherapist, parent, relative, household member, employer, primary school teacher, secondary school teacher or person employed for the supervision or control of children and uses his authority to coerce the child to submit.

For a third degree felony it includes the same language as above, but removes employer

as part of the detail.

Finally, the amendment makes the same change as number one from above, but for third degree Criminal Sexual Contact of a Minor.

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Bill 135 seeks to amend Section 30-9-11 NMSA 1978 by expanding the definition of a child from ages thirteen to eighteen in cases of criminal sexual penetration in the second degree. Currently, the statute defines children as persons between the ages of thirteen and sixteen in second degree cases.

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