---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROBATE COURT CHANGES"
description: "PROBATE COURT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "New Mexico SB 248 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garcia, Harry", "Ivey-Soto, Daniel A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-26"
last_action: "2023-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fe3227e-f77d-40a8-b9d5-4ecb2012eae4"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=248&year=23"
source_hash: "7aceea994a1bc6e0926921e40ec0a2da89ceeb87a490caac8acdad3575372b16"
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 248 (2023) — PROBATE COURT CHANGES

## 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/SB0248.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0248.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0248.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Garcia, Harry — primary (person)
- Ivey-Soto, Daniel A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-26** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2023-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-30** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fe3227e-f77d-40a8-b9d5-4ecb2012eae4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).