---
type: "Bill"
title: "COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY ACT CHANGES"
description: "COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY ACT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 127"
citation: "New Mexico HB 127 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero, G. Andrés"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-12-21"
last_action: "2019-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e92e19c-8d2a-4b32-aab7-cee6c706fd3d"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=127&year=19"
source_hash: "ea6963a4b29b54ad64b7aee28ec104437e681a891196da20dc21a2cfcdaf94ea"
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 127 (2019) — COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY ACT CHANGES

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0127.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0127.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0127.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **47–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romero, G. Andrés — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-21** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-16** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** passed House `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** passed Senate `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/0e92e19c-8d2a-4b32-aab7-cee6c706fd3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).