---
type: "Bill"
title: "CHAPARRAL LIBRARY FEASIBILITY STUDY"
description: "CHAPARRAL LIBRARY FEASIBILITY STUDY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 27"
citation: "New Mexico HB 27 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CULTURAL AFFAIRS (arts", "museums", "libraries)", "PUBLIC BUILDINGS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara, Raymundo", "Madrid, Willie D.", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia", "Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 7
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b8df9b9-5ce4-45b8-a68b-d94ad236776d"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=27&year=19"
source_hash: "7214867805971b331f96a5f7a92432162d804db048a2ccd33934d21851c77acb"
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 27 (2019) — CHAPARRAL LIBRARY FEASIBILITY STUDY

## 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/19%20Regular/final/HB0027.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0027.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lara, Raymundo — primary (person)
- Madrid, Willie D. — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Sent to House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-16** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-03-16** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b8df9b9-5ce4-45b8-a68b-d94ad236776d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).