---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERINARY CLINIC STUDENT INTERNS"
description: "VETERINARY CLINIC STUDENT INTERNS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 545"
citation: "New Mexico SB 545 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (fish", "livestock", "pets", "wildlife)", "EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY", "AGRICULTURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ingle, Stuart", "Woods, Pat"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc39f09-2128-403c-9719-32b2c5705075"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=545&year=19"
source_hash: "e409fecbeebe1137df8f8fb914b3715c7ba63c495913412f5a267744bf2ee31b"
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 545 (2019) — VETERINARY CLINIC STUDENT INTERNS

## 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/SB0545.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0545.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0545.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ingle, Stuart — primary (person)
- Woods, Pat — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-13** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Sent to House Agriculture & Water Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-12** 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/fbc39f09-2128-403c-9719-32b2c5705075`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).