---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDY WIND TURBINE DECOMMISSIONING"
description: "STUDY WIND TURBINE DECOMMISSIONING"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SM 66"
citation: "New Mexico SM 66 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)", "ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kernan, Gay G."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fab3167b-1eeb-4e04-ad8a-6b0ba97f41e8"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=66&year=19"
source_hash: "5394f1fb596ef4024f77c00b659fcd192546a23fb1a1c651778fa759a6879b33"
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 SM 66 (2019) — STUDY WIND TURBINE DECOMMISSIONING

## 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/SM066.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM066.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Kernan, Gay G. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-11** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-11** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fab3167b-1eeb-4e04-ad8a-6b0ba97f41e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).