---
type: "Bill"
title: "MEDICARE PART B AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT"
description: "MEDICARE PART B AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 371"
citation: "New Mexico HB 371 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (programs)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Deborah A.", "Dow, Rebecca"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f4d9c26-49f7-4f23-abf0-a26b5b29c57d"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=371&year=19"
source_hash: "151a0ce1bc500cba498a96143b5047f95d96fb71e3d912362baedaa2b788d8f3"
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 371 (2019) — MEDICARE PART B AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT

## 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/HB0371.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0371.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0371.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Deborah A. — primary (person)
- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-03-01** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-01** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-02** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **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/3f4d9c26-49f7-4f23-abf0-a26b5b29c57d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).