---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SEARCH & SEIZURE"
description: "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SEARCH & SEIZURE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 270"
citation: "New Mexico SB 270 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chasey, Gail", "Ivey-Soto, Daniel A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-02-04"
last_action: "2020-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3529b68-d6bb-4767-bbba-a78fe4fc117c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=270&year=20"
source_hash: "7e6066993de7661888f790dfc3b95296fd7ce678345e2d869a610ecaa09e7474"
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 270 (2020) — ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SEARCH & SEIZURE

## 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/SB0270.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/final/SB0270.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0270.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Chasey, Gail — primary (person)
- Ivey-Soto, Daniel A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-04** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** germane
- **2020-02-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b3529b68-d6bb-4767-bbba-a78fe4fc117c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).