---
type: "Bill"
title: "MUNICIPALITY RECALL ELECTIONS"
description: "MUNICIPALITY RECALL ELECTIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "New Mexico HB 49 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "ELECTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roch, Dennis J."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-18"
last_action: "2018-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b995ab5f-e4fe-42c0-a907-252f54422e71"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=49&year=18"
source_hash: "e1efcc051306b0ea7e37d1843b653b7d263d941e4d72406455a6e167a4c45a5c"
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 49 (2018) — MUNICIPALITY RECALL ELECTIONS

## 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/18%20Regular/final/HB0049.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/house/HB0049.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **47–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roch, Dennis J. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-18** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** not printed House Rules and Order of Business Committee
- **2018-01-23** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2018-01-23** germane & printed
- **2018-01-23** referred to House Local Government, Elections, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-07** passed House `passage`
- **2018-02-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-03-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b995ab5f-e4fe-42c0-a907-252f54422e71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).