On February 27, the New Mexico Senate Rules Committee passes SB 418.  Originally the bill said that major parties (the parties that nominate by primary) must allow independent voters to vote in their primaries, or else those parties must pay for their own primaries.

New Mexico is not in the 8th circuit, but there is an 8th circuit precedent that says if a state requires a party to nominate by primary, then the government must pay the election administration costs of that primary.  Republican Party of Arkansas v Faulkner, 49 F 3d 1289 (1995).

The Senate Rules Committee amended the bill.  It no longer threatens any party that the government will no longer pay for its primaries.  Instead it provides that any party entitled to a primary can decide for itself whether to let independents vote in its primaries.