---
type: "Bill"
title: "RURAL ELECTRIC COOP REGULATION"
description: "RURAL ELECTRIC COOP REGULATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HM 61"
citation: "New Mexico HM 61 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "LEGISLATURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales, Roberto \"Bobby\" J.", "Herrera, Susan K.", "Sanchez, Joseph L."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-19"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34cb9005-8925-4700-b65e-f09fa1159d40"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=61&year=19"
source_hash: "a2ece3ec9da1bb1358b6d4a9e50662b4bbfa6731f382d8017acd259a7281a402"
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 HM 61 (2019) — RURAL ELECTRIC COOP REGULATION

## 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/HM061.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/house/HM061.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Gonzales, Roberto "Bobby" J. — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
- Sanchez, Joseph L. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-19** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2019-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34cb9005-8925-4700-b65e-f09fa1159d40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).