---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIREARM SALE WAITING PERIOD CRIMES"
description: "FIREARM SALE WAITING PERIOD CRIMES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 129"
citation: "New Mexico HB 129 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "López, Linda M.", "Parajón, Cristina", "Romero, Andrea"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-12"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fe29de4-63e3-4682-882b-fc573e3af5b2"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=129&year=24"
source_hash: "e874ea71f6693552f4d51a222806a7203adb174b1ab8acce68e2433ca910e3c7"
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 129 (2024) — FIREARM SALE WAITING PERIOD CRIMES

## 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/24%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0129.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/HB0129.PDF)
3. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/house/HB0129JCS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/house/HB0129.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **23–18** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **37–33** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- López, Linda M. — primary (person)
- Parajón, Cristina — primary (person)
- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Sent to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2024-02-08** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2024-02-02** passed House `passage`
- **2024-02-03** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-10** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2024-02-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6fe29de4-63e3-4682-882b-fc573e3af5b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).