---
type: "Bill"
title: "PSYCHOLOGIST PRESCRIPTION CERTIFICATES"
description: "PSYCHOLOGIST PRESCRIPTION CERTIFICATES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "New Mexico SB 9 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Papen, Mary Kay"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 7
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23885338-e64e-47b3-89ef-c65a8c5a3f82"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=9&year=19"
source_hash: "2e4a5df77e9922985dc40fbaf0d58fc6667ade98842558cb78dd47ed3558240a"
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 9 (2019) — PSYCHOLOGIST PRESCRIPTION CERTIFICATES

## 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/SB0009.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0009.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **60–8** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Papen, Mary Kay — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-24** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** passed House `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23885338-e64e-47b3-89ef-c65a8c5a3f82`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).