---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENGINEERING & SURVEYING SCHOLARSHIP & LICENSE"
description: "ENGINEERING & SURVEYING SCHOLARSHIP & LICENSE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 447"
citation: "New Mexico SB 447 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fulfer, Gregg", "Griggs, Ron"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae53ac5b-d380-4fc0-8379-83f5b1fa2742"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=447&year=19"
source_hash: "9b17784cc79b06cd22303b76f5767f721341c14a60b56c533e533290f03bc2ab"
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 SB 447 (2019) — ENGINEERING & SURVEYING SCHOLARSHIP & LICENSE

## 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/SB0447.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0447.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- senate passage — **13–28** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fulfer, Gregg — primary (person)
- Griggs, Ron — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-01** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-18** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-11** 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/ae53ac5b-d380-4fc0-8379-83f5b1fa2742`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).