---
type: "Bill"
title: "ON-RECORD METRO COURT APPEALS"
description: "ON-RECORD METRO COURT APPEALS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 279"
citation: "New Mexico HB 279 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91b33654-3b02-413f-bd60-783f485524bb"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=279&year=19"
source_hash: "ad9569dc31c6f11725be37e677fb2b29872f7398d2bf22ed1648a9edc85eb10a"
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 HB 279 (2019) — ON-RECORD METRO COURT APPEALS

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0279.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0279.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0279.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Sent to House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-10** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-05** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-16** House concurred in Senate amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91b33654-3b02-413f-bd60-783f485524bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).