---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT"
description: "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 199"
citation: "New Mexico SB 199 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/776b3859-2d96-459a-9875-8242b8ab35c1"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=199&year=19"
source_hash: "65e5da6e44564337ad922f0f82eb9d9c5025a1b8842fe3eeb910b3a5b7fd8966"
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 199 (2019) — ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT

## 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/19%20Regular/final/SB0199.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0199.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-24** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** passed House `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/776b3859-2d96-459a-9875-8242b8ab35c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).