---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAW ENFORCEMENT & PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMM"
description: "LAW ENFORCEMENT & PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMM"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "New Mexico SB 19 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LAW ENFORCEMENT (sheriffs", "police)", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-25"
last_action: "2023-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c813363-4e0c-45c7-badf-617609ca9e82"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=19&year=23"
source_hash: "b2f554e53ba1eb58ac2b50635fc6f127251c1ed9ac3fe30a4f64f6628a8168e0"
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 19 (2023) — LAW ENFORCEMENT & PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMM

## 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/SB0019.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0019.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0019JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0019.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-25** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-13** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-11** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c813363-4e0c-45c7-badf-617609ca9e82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).