---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA \"QUALIFIED PATIENT\""
description: "MEDICAL MARIJUANA \"QUALIFIED PATIENT\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "New Mexico SB 139 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "ALCOHOL & DRUGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39a518e0-6cbf-4428-9dad-19e9f67f6f84"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=139&year=20"
source_hash: "5ad964646cacdeb8c7c92ece3390465cdad29ffa20aa22c32969d31c25f60102"
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 139 (2020) — MEDICAL MARIJUANA "QUALIFIED PATIENT"

## 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/20%20Regular/final/SB0139.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0139.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** germane
- **2020-02-21** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2020-02-16** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39a518e0-6cbf-4428-9dad-19e9f67f6f84`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).