---
type: "Bill"
title: "UNIFORM PROBATE CODE CHANGES"
description: "UNIFORM PROBATE CODE CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 503"
citation: "New Mexico SB 503 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "PROPERTY (conservancy districts", "land grants", "real estate)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7226af81-df57-48f6-a5c8-c99d8b6df1b4"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=503&year=19"
source_hash: "44b694f395593f6bd1920434ce0c1c2f51455d5ad7f144a014aa2336fec67f81"
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 503 (2019) — UNIFORM PROBATE CODE CHANGES

## 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/SB0503.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0503.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-16** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-16** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2019-03-12** DO PASS, as amended, 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/7226af81-df57-48f6-a5c8-c99d8b6df1b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).