---
type: "Bill"
title: "EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY ACT CHANGES"
description: "EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY ACT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 291"
citation: "New Mexico HB 291 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero, Andrea"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbf82b7b-be06-4260-9192-915e44e9ce5f"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=291&year=19"
source_hash: "42e15850c19b71d33de90a11f7f5d249a710f2a37fcca1249f0e021d15dd640b"
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 291 (2019) — EFFICIENT USE OF ENERGY 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/HB0291.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0291.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0291.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-22** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-02-22** referred to House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-03** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Sent to Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** 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/cbf82b7b-be06-4260-9192-915e44e9ce5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).