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+type: "Bill"
+title: "HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT"
+description: "HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 246"
+citation: "New Mexico SB 246 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-11"
+last_action: "2019-03-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41f2b248-9bcc-41af-b07e-cf760dec36d4"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=246&year=19"
+source_hash: "7ea676e90cbd1905cca367111064cff6c9f3c013555741d208ae0a6527084729"
+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 246 (2019) — HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0246.PDF)
+2. **PA substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0246PAS.HTML)
+3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0246.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-11** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-17** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-02-07** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2019-02-08** Sent to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-03-08** passed House `passage`
+- **2019-03-15** Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41f2b248-9bcc-41af-b07e-cf760dec36d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+