---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMPILATION COMMISSION CHANGES"
description: "COMPILATION COMMISSION CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "New Mexico SB 261 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS & COMMISSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Payne, William H."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dc7e649-1c8b-48c1-bb00-c6ad651caf20"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=261&year=19"
source_hash: "54140850329d8277f86da6740d1cdf56b3bf5e69b4b8864fe02bf317d1f92a11"
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 261 (2019) — COMPILATION COMMISSION CHANGES

## 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/SB0261.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0261.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0261.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Payne, William H. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** referred to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Sent to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-27** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dc7e649-1c8b-48c1-bb00-c6ad651caf20`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).