---
type: "Bill"
title: "EQUINE DEFINITION"
description: "EQUINE DEFINITION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 271"
citation: "New Mexico SB 271 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (fish", "livestock", "pets", "wildlife)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamblen, Carrie"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-30"
last_action: "2023-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1878d29-39d3-4516-a212-f22f8bcbb5f9"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=271&year=23"
source_hash: "969cdd86837f6eb999e315cc6ca1a28b61763e5a000c7ca5734ced4e6bdc120b"
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 271 (2023) — EQUINE DEFINITION

## 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/SB0271.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0271.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0271.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Hamblen, Carrie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-30** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-25** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-14** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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/f1878d29-39d3-4516-a212-f22f8bcbb5f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).