---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELIMINATING COURT FEES"
description: "ELIMINATING COURT FEES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 139"
citation: "New Mexico HB 139 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS (prisons", "prisoners", "jails)", "COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cadena, Micaela Lara"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a3320dd-6c1d-48f5-a717-1164d0433855"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=139&year=23"
source_hash: "e23baa120221a2977ee38fce6cfa7b3a359a8bed8ab684407115b8e10912316c"
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 HB 139 (2023) — ELIMINATING COURT FEES

## 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/23%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0139.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0139.PDF)
3. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0139JCS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0139.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cadena, Micaela Lara — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** Sent to House Judiciary Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** special
- **2023-03-02** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-22** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-04** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2023-03-04** passed House `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a3320dd-6c1d-48f5-a717-1164d0433855`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).