---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT"
description: "NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "New Mexico SB 1 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "LEGISLATURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ingle, Stuart", "Kernan, Gay G.", "Morales, Howie C."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-15"
last_action: "2018-01-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0fbf597-b179-4d91-8254-a87c22e1d616"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=1&year=18"
source_hash: "7ebb2bab566b18214b31f7c74a5ff7c153e96d10dd1e97b10786ba99c210da55"
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 1 (2018) — NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT

## 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/SB0001.pdf)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0001.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ingle, Stuart — primary (person)
- Kernan, Gay G. — primary (person)
- Morales, Howie C. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-17** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2018-01-17** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-01-17** Sent to House Health and Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-18** passed House `passage`
- **2017-12-15** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-16** germane
- **2018-01-19** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0fbf597-b179-4d91-8254-a87c22e1d616`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).