---
type: "Bill"
title: "DRIVER’S LICENSE SUSPENSION PENALTIES"
description: "DRIVER’S LICENSE SUSPENSION PENALTIES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 47"
citation: "New Mexico SB 47 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "MOTOR VEHICLES (autos", "trucks", "buses", "cycles)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chandler, Christine", "Diamond, Crystal R.", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9d935e4-3a1e-4004-b65a-974a3ca29ad5"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=47&year=23"
source_hash: "30e62ce65d5b7bb2220ba05eac79ea2e1ec200de8e2a6003901eed21d2bcb948"
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 47 (2023) — DRIVER’S LICENSE SUSPENSION PENALTIES

## 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/SB0047.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0047.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0047.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Diamond, Crystal R. — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-26** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-25** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-15** Sent to House Judiciary Committee & House Taxation & Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9d935e4-3a1e-4004-b65a-974a3ca29ad5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).