---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELEVATOR SAFETY ACT"
description: "ELEVATOR SAFETY ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 299"
citation: "New Mexico HB 299 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Castellano, Ambrose", "Lord, Stefani"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-02"
last_action: "2023-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74151b10-7197-40b1-b3d7-396a724e9023"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=299&year=23"
source_hash: "d2edc77f13729a03ff6cf9ff21b33cb729d9ea9690c3b67aafe0428cbec1fbdc"
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 299 (2023) — ELEVATOR SAFETY ACT

## 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/HB0299.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0299.PDF)
3. **LV substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0299LVS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0299.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Castellano, Ambrose — primary (person)
- Lord, Stefani — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-02** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Commerce & Economic Development Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-02** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74151b10-7197-40b1-b3d7-396a724e9023`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).