---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY TRANSITION ACT"
description: "ENERGY TRANSITION ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 489"
citation: "New Mexico SB 489 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candelaria, Jacob R.", "Egolf, Brian", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia", "Small, Nathan P.", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/22704886-f437-4a64-a64b-f9345327a024"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=489&year=19"
source_hash: "4daba3ed2e2fb9ed1037b61c80b919a4bb31dbf050a51201d0c05660fd93c0dc"
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 489 (2019) — ENERGY TRANSITION ACT

## 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/SB0489.pdf)
2. **CT substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0489CTS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0489.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0489.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Candelaria, Jacob R. — primary (person)
- Egolf, Brian — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-07** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-06** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-22** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/22704886-f437-4a64-a64b-f9345327a024`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).