<P> In a period before 1979 the age of consent was raised to 16 . In May 1979 the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill sponsored by Christopher Jackman, the assembly speaker, changed the age of consent to 13 . This bill was scheduled to go into effect on September 1, 1979 . By June 1979 there were reports Governor of New Jersey Brendan T. Byrne had refused to sign the bill into law . The coordinator for New Jersey Majority Women, Elizabeth Sadowski, asked for a postponement of this bill . </P> <P> The age of consent in New Mexico is 17 with age - gap, marital, and school employee provisions . </P> <P> New Mexico Code> Chapter 30> Article 9> Section 30 - 9 - 11: Criminal sexual penetration . </P> <P> "F. Criminal sexual penetration in the fourth degree consists of all criminal sexual penetration: </P>

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