---
type: "Bill"
title: "GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION EXPANSION GRANTS"
description: "GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION EXPANSION GRANTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 480"
citation: "New Mexico HB 480 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallegos, Doreen Y.", "Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a72d43db-7ea2-49e0-acb1-d32590889b7b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=480&year=19"
source_hash: "32da1e8eafb0e5e0c5f646a75041c92c4df9efc2608fd74e61976fcc119ad31b"
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 480 (2019) — GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION EXPANSION GRANTS

## 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/HB0480.pdf)
2. **EC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0480ECS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0480.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0480.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Gallegos, Doreen Y. — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-05** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a72d43db-7ea2-49e0-acb1-d32590889b7b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).