---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATE OUTDOOR RECREATION DIVISION"
description: "CREATE OUTDOOR RECREATION DIVISION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 462"
citation: "New Mexico SB 462 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)", "PARKS", "MONUMENTS & RECREATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, D. Wonda", "Neville, Steven P.", "Rubio, Angelica", "Small, Nathan P.", "Steinborn, Jeff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d373742-1eb8-40a7-9288-1ba94eceda63"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=462&year=19"
source_hash: "93874dba9e9edcb2c32ac11bdcbb40b8b2e3c2aa42df3b40bb0242dcb84911cc"
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 462 (2019) — CREATE OUTDOOR RECREATION DIVISION

## 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/SB0462.pdf)
2. **CO substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0462COS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0462.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0462.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)
- Neville, Steven P. — primary (person)
- Rubio, Angelica — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)
- Steinborn, Jeff — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-11** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** Sent to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d373742-1eb8-40a7-9288-1ba94eceda63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).