STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 1589

with Assembly Floor Amendments

(Proposed By Assemblyman BAGGER)

ADOPTED: MAY 30, 1996

       These floor amendments change the definition of "counterfeit mark" for purposes of this bill and eliminate certain other definitions as unnecessary. The floor amendments also revise the language in subsection c. concerning the offense itself to provide that a person convicted must intend to deceive or defraud someone else and must manufacture, sell, advertise, distribute or possess within this State or in conjunction with commercial activities within this State.