---
type: "Bill"
title: "STORAGE TANK & TANK TESTER COMPLIANCE"
description: "STORAGE TANK & TANK TESTER COMPLIANCE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 28"
citation: "New Mexico SB 28 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kernan, Gay G."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-12-19"
last_action: "2018-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/25e0c8f3-925f-4286-a718-3b2038891447"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=28&year=18"
source_hash: "804440a2f63263bf74d3f7aa572c4ef6aba469e414b0b15a9c16dfdf32542e2a"
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 28 (2018) — STORAGE TANK & TANK TESTER COMPLIANCE

## 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/SB0028.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0028.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kernan, Gay G. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-19** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** germane
- **2018-02-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-16** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-09** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-02-09** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** passed House `passage`
- **2018-03-01** 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/25e0c8f3-925f-4286-a718-3b2038891447`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).