---
type: "Bill"
title: "REGIONAL AIR CENTER SPECIAL ECONOMIC DISTRICT"
description: "REGIONAL AIR CENTER SPECIAL ECONOMIC DISTRICT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 229"
citation: "New Mexico HB 229 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AVIATION & RAILROADS", "ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson, Phelps", "Ezzell, Candy Spence", "Nibert, Greg"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c62980fa-570d-425e-a0ae-d1e791c5ce74"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=229&year=19"
source_hash: "329bb27fc062f361effd93ac74565fcf87b21811c0d2082a3bbd76a46b38a498"
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 229 (2019) — REGIONAL AIR CENTER SPECIAL ECONOMIC DISTRICT

## 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/HB0229.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0229.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0229.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–4** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **37–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson, Phelps — primary (person)
- Ezzell, Candy Spence — primary (person)
- Nibert, Greg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** passed House `passage`
- **2019-01-17** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-24** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-31** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c62980fa-570d-425e-a0ae-d1e791c5ce74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).