---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FUND"
description: "CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 312"
citation: "New Mexico HB 312 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58ec9c66-b2d0-4482-9644-0b026fb83172"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=312&year=20"
source_hash: "fe6952ff8effd9d73587df705d6f3a1a58122512d9e77da83ebc2a44aac43a3f"
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 312 (2020) — CREATE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH FUND

## 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/HB0312.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/house/HB0312.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-30** not printed House Rules and Order of Business Committee
- **2020-01-31** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2020-01-31** printed
- **2020-01-31** referred to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-12** passed House `passage`
- **2020-02-13** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58ec9c66-b2d0-4482-9644-0b026fb83172`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).