---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA CHANGES"
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 406"
citation: "New Mexico SB 406 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "ALCOHOL & DRUGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb5064dd-e4ed-4ece-870d-431c6ed053cf"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=406&year=19"
source_hash: "35bded296fd7b6713f83b42b37bdc0b598b5d98d36a9fe839b92f583c9accb0b"
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 406 (2019) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA 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/SB0406.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0406.PDF)
3. **PA substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0406PAS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0406.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-29** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-02** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** floor substitute adopted (2 amendment)
- **2019-03-07** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Sent to House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-11** 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/eb5064dd-e4ed-4ece-870d-431c6ed053cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).