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2007 Session
SB10 sponsored by Senator Mary Jane Garcia (D-Doña Ana)
SB70 sponsored by Senator Steve Komadina (D-Corrales)
These identical bills were introduced to add cockfighting to the current law prohibiting dog fighting and asked to make cockfighting a fourth degree felony. SB10 passed the Senate Conservation Committee by a 5-3 vote and SB70 was tabled in that committee to allow SB10 to be the only cockfighting prohibition bill to move forward. SB10 then was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 7-3 and moved to debate on the Senate floor. Senators Phil Griego and Rod Adair attempted to adopt six amendments to weaken the bill, two of which were successful including no penalties for spectatorship and a lessening of the penalties for participation to be a petty misdemeanor for the first offense, a misdemeanor for the second offense and a fourth degree felony for the third and subsequent offenses. SB10 passed the Senate by a vote of 31-11.
In the House, SB10 passed the House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee by a vote of 6-1 where it was amended to fix a technical error from a Senate floor amendment and then went on to pass the House Judiciary Committee by a vote of 9-1. SB10 was passed the House by a vote of 49-20 and successfully went back to the Senate for concurrence on the House amendment.
SB10 was signed into law on March 12, 2007 by Governor Richardson making cockfighting illegal in the State of New Mexico beginning June 15, 2007.
2005 Session
SB 65, sponsored by Senators Mary Jane Garcia (D-Doña Ana) and Nancy Rodriguez (D-Santa Fe)
SB 66, sponsored by Senator Steve Komadina (R-Corrales)
HB 878, sponsored by Representatives Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe) and Richard Cheney (R-Farmington)
SB 65 & SB 66 were tabled in the Senate Conservation Committee by a 6-2 vote. HB 878 passed the House by a 51-15 vote. Some pro-cockfighting legislators attempted to get HB 878 an additional committee referral as a way to kill the bill. The effort failed the full House by a 20 to 42 vote. Representative Jimmy Hall (R-Albuquerque) also introduced a bill to ban the sale of cockfighting paraphernalia, HB 840, as a way to curb cockfighting, but the bill was tabled in its first committee.
SB 65 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
SB 66 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
HB 878 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
HB 840 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
2003 Session
HB 559, sponsored by Representative Ron Godbey (R-Cedar Crest)
SB 64, sponsored by Senator Steve Komadina (R-Corrales)
After SB 64 was killed by the Senate Conservation Committee by a 5-4 vote, HB 559 was introduced. The bill had an unusual 3-committee hearing and made its way a full House vote, passing 45-21. HB 559 was never granted a hearing by the Senate.
HB 559 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
SB 64 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
2001 Session
SB 276, sponsored by Senator Nancy Rodriguez (D-Santa Fe)
HB 922, sponsored by Representative Joe Thompson (R-Albuquerque)
The Senate Conservation Committee gave SB 276 a “do not pass” by a vote of 5-4. Sen. Rodriguez made a motion on the Senate floor to reject the committee’s recommendation, but the “do not pass” was upheld by a 21-18 vote. HB 922 was tabled in its first committee, House Consumer & Public Affairs, by a 5-4 vote. The committee attempted to give the bill a “do pass” and a “no recommendation” but both motions resulted in a tie vote.
SB 276 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
HB 922 information from the NM Legislative Council Service
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