---
type: "Bill"
title: "SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE & PROVISION CHANGES"
description: "SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE & PROVISION CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 539"
citation: "New Mexico HB 539 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallegos, Doreen Y.", "Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/644012ba-49b2-4f21-82eb-c6bd1dfded27"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=539&year=19"
source_hash: "7d98892cf87bec1eb90343e08ded39cb3c5556c8a39c8f1485c89b80ee109502"
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 539 (2019) — SOCIAL WORK LICENSURE & PROVISION 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/HB0539.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0539.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0539.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Gallegos, Doreen Y. — primary (person)
- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** referred to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** 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/644012ba-49b2-4f21-82eb-c6bd1dfded27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).