{"id":1207,"date":"2007-02-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/cockfighting-ban-heads-to-senate-floor\/"},"modified":"2007-02-05T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T00:31:00","slug":"cockfighting-ban-heads-to-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/cockfighting-ban-heads-to-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockfighting ban heads to Senate floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RcfMst4KdGI\/AAAAAAAAAxg\/oevvhu0L61k\/s1600-h\/Garcia,+Mary+Jane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RcfMst4KdGI\/AAAAAAAAAxg\/oevvhu0L61k\/s200\/Garcia,+Mary+Jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5028212577583920226\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A bill that would outlaw cockfighting in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> is headed to the Senate floor after the Judiciary Committee passed it this afternoon, but not without first making a change.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/_session.asp?w=com&#038;year=07&amp;chamber=S&#038;type=++&amp;number=10\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 10<\/a>, sponsored by Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=261&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Jane Garcia<\/a>, D-Do\u00f1a Ana, was approved by a vote of 7-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As proposed by Garcia and passed last week by the Senate Conservation Committee, the bill made cockfighting a fourth-degree felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison. As amended before today\u2019s vote, the bill now makes cockfighting a misdemeanor on a first offense, punishable by less than one year in prison, and a fourth-degree felony after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Garcia took the amendment as friendly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would outlaw cockfighting in New Mexico is headed to the Senate floor after the Judiciary Committee passed it this afternoon, but not without first making a change. Senate Bill 10, sponsored by Sen. Mary Jane Garcia, D-Do\u00f1a Ana, was approved by a vote of 7-3. As proposed by Garcia and passed last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}