---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION & MEDICAL TAXES"
description: "EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION & MEDICAL TAXES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 157"
citation: "New Mexico HB 157 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "TAXATION ADMINISTRATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dow, Rebecca"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-12-31"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fe9c7f9-2f2d-4b33-960a-52b50ec8dcd7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=157&year=19"
source_hash: "d012bb93defe5890d1908ff63952980d39268e2f1fe17faa111201f6061eda01"
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 157 (2019) — EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION & MEDICAL TAXES

## 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/HB0157.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0157.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0157.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **58–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-31** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Sent to House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee & House Taxation & Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** passed House `passage`
- **2019-02-11** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee & Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-12** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-12** 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/1fe9c7f9-2f2d-4b33-960a-52b50ec8dcd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).