---
type: "Bill"
title: "MOTOR VEHICLE TAX TO ROAD FUND"
description: "MOTOR VEHICLE TAX TO ROAD FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 226"
citation: "New Mexico SB 226 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "MOTOR VEHICLES (autos", "trucks", "buses", "cycles)", "TAXATION", "OTHER (gas", "cigarettes", "etc.)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leavell, Carroll H.", "Smith, John Arthur"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-02-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3af886f9-03e5-4811-bcde-c0f6afd26d00"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=226&year=18"
source_hash: "7146056e810eebc5373df0ef3fb1a12188bfe59a01fb8dda0b84fbddd8be6e5d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nm"]
---

# New Mexico SB 226 (2018) — MOTOR VEHICLE TAX TO ROAD FUND

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/final/SB0226.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0226.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leavell, Carroll H. — primary (person)
- Smith, John Arthur — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-01-30** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** germane
- **2018-02-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-07** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2018-02-09** Sent to House Taxation and Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** passed House `passage`
- **2018-02-15** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3af886f9-03e5-4811-bcde-c0f6afd26d00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).