---
type: "Bill"
title: "OIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION FEES"
description: "OIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION FEES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 553"
citation: "New Mexico SB 553 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES", "ENVIRONMENT", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a2cbbe4-b2b0-4ac8-b9e5-425c9e193254"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=553&year=19"
source_hash: "111aecc2232bb73656b5c412e91b7e2b042e51ad81c1bffd3dee7c895bd1d609"
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 553 (2019) — OIL CONSERVATION COMMISSION FEES

## 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/SB0553.pdf)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0553FCS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0553.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0553.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-13** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-14** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-15** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2019-03-13** DO PASS, as amended, 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/0a2cbbe4-b2b0-4ac8-b9e5-425c9e193254`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).