---
type: "Bill"
title: "CLARIFY MILITARY LEAVE"
description: "CLARIFY MILITARY LEAVE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 22"
citation: "New Mexico HB 22 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ezzell, Candy Spence", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Nibert, Greg"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-12-16"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37e5898b-8f4e-4941-bb8b-60798dc927ea"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=22&year=20"
source_hash: "870870ba0a591c3143c62edf40b9389bd2227659c5113548a3ad40f99e324d7e"
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 HB 22 (2020) — CLARIFY MILITARY LEAVE

## 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/20%20Regular/final/HB0022.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/house/HB0022.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ezzell, Candy Spence — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Nibert, Greg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-12-16** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** passed House `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Sent to Senate Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-17** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/37e5898b-8f4e-4941-bb8b-60798dc927ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).