---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAND GRANT ELECTIONS & DEFINITIONS"
description: "LAND GRANT ELECTIONS & DEFINITIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "New Mexico SB 223 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "PROPERTY (conservancy districts", "land grants", "real estate)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lopez, Linda M."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d50e20be-cf5b-4738-938d-0b8d2ee91d22"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=223&year=19"
source_hash: "6e1ea8cda1d30ff30d0a3ff74edc8adf9e493dfef5fb51319e0aa453a61a989b"
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 223 (2019) — LAND GRANT ELECTIONS & DEFINITIONS

## 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/SB0223.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0223.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0223.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Lopez, Linda M. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-17** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Sent to House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-12** 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/d50e20be-cf5b-4738-938d-0b8d2ee91d22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).