---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADDITIONAL JUDGESHIPS"
description: "ADDITIONAL JUDGESHIPS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 185"
citation: "New Mexico SB 185 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martinez, Richard C."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-28"
last_action: "2020-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f29fbe5-0d1d-422f-ac2c-617b630732ec"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=185&year=20"
source_hash: "37cc87b9b25b99ba10965fc8c3ee4059d8db7d3a771c05a9213f12639a756c8d"
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 185 (2020) — ADDITIONAL JUDGESHIPS

## 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/20%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0185.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/final/SB0185.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0185JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0185.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Martinez, Richard C. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-28** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** germane
- **2020-02-06** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-11** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-12** passed Senate `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Sent to House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-17** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f29fbe5-0d1d-422f-ac2c-617b630732ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).