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HOUSE BILL 359
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TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Randall T. Pettigrew and Martin R. Zamora
AN ACT
RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES; PROVIDING THAT KNOWINGLY MAKING
A FALSE STATEMENT ON A MATTER FOR WHICH TESTIMONY IS REQUESTED
IN A LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDING CONSTITUTES PERJURY REGARDLESS OF
WHETHER THE STATEMENT IS MADE UNDER OATH, AFFIRMATION OR
PENALTY OF PERJURY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. Section 30-25-1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1963,
Chapter 303, Section 25-1, as amended) is amended to read:
"30-25-1. PERJURY.--
A. Perjury consists of making a false statement:
(1) under oath, affirmation or penalty of
perjury, material to the issue or matter involved in the course
of any judicial or administrative [legislative ] proceeding or
other official proceeding or matter not before the legislature ,
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knowing [such] that statement to be untrue; or
(2) material to the issue or matter of which
the person making the statement has been requested to testify
in any proceeding before the legislature, including any hearing
of a standing or interim committee of the legislature, knowing
that statement to be untrue and regardless of whether the
statement is made under oath, affirmation or penalty of
perjury; provided that the provisions of this paragraph do not
apply to a statement made by a member of the public during a
designated period for public comment at a hearing of a standing
or interim committee of the legislature .
B. Whoever commits perjury is guilty of a fourth
degree felony."
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