---
type: "Bill"
title: "DECREASE MARIJUANA PENALTIES"
description: "DECREASE MARIJUANA PENALTIES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 323"
citation: "New Mexico SB 323 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOL & DRUGS", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98777f5d-51e2-4825-9cb8-bb7f1a2899ce"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=323&year=19"
source_hash: "000c556cb6a2868845dc40bb1e6480460a9f2a09aee874522eb1cf456b8033ff"
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 323 (2019) — DECREASE MARIJUANA PENALTIES

## 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/SB0323.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0323.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0323.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-16** Senate concurred in House amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/98777f5d-51e2-4825-9cb8-bb7f1a2899ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).