New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

New Mexico Senate Bill SB149 Compare Versions

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28	28	SENATE BILL 149
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46	46	INTRODUCED BY
47	47	Antonio Maestas
48	48	AN ACT
49	49	RELATING TO CRIME; CREATING THE CRIME OF CYBERBULLYING;
50	50	PROVIDING PENALTIES.
51	51	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
52	52	SECTION 1. A new section of Chapter 30, Article 6 NMSA
53	53	1978 is enacted to read:
54	54	"[NEW MATERIAL] CYBERBULLYING--PENALTIES.--
55	55	A. Cyberbullying consists of a person communicating
56	56	directly or indirectly, in writing or electronically, with a
57	57	public school or private school student with reckless disregard
58	58	that the communication may have the effect of:
59	59	(1) placing the student in reasonable fear of
60	60	physical harm;
61	61	(2) causing a substantially detrimental effect
62	62	on the student's physical or mental health;
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90	90	(3) substantially interfering with the
91	91	student's academic performance; or
92	92	(4) substantially interfering with the
93	93	student's ability to participate in or benefit from the
94	94	services, activities or privileges provided by a school.
95	95	B. Whoever commits cyberbullying is guilty of a
96	96	misdemeanor.
97	97	C. Whoever commits cyberbullying when the
98	98	cyberbullying results in physical harm or great psychological
99	99	harm is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
100	100	D. Whoever commits cyberbullying when the
101	101	cyberbullying results in great physical harm is guilty of a
102	102	third degree felony.
103	103	E. Whoever commits cyberbullying when the
104	104	cyberbullying results in death is guilty of a second degree
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106	106	F. As used in this section:
107	107	(1) "great physical harm" means physical harm
108	108	of a type that causes physical loss of a bodily member or organ
109	109	or functional loss of a bodily member or organ for a prolonged
110	110	period of time;
111	111	(2) "great psychological harm" means
112	112	psychological harm that causes mental or emotional
113	113	incapacitation for a prolonged period of time or that causes
114	114	extreme behavioral change or severe physical symptoms that
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143	143	require psychological or psychiatric care;
144	144	(3) "physical harm" means an injury to the
145	145	body that causes substantial pain or incapacitation; and
146	146	(4) "student" means any resident of New Mexico
147	147	who is enrolled in a public or private school as defined in
148	148	Subsection K or L of Section 22-1-2 NMSA 1978."
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