---
type: "Bill"
title: "NEW MEXICO WORK AND SAVE ACT"
description: "NEW MEXICO WORK AND SAVE ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 44"
citation: "New Mexico HB 44 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Gail", "Chandler, Christine", "Padilla, Michael", "Salazar, Tomás E.", "Tallman, Bill"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-12-18"
last_action: "2020-02-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9284debc-cb53-49e6-90ea-4bc27c6bbf12"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=44&year=20"
source_hash: "54c9ffd0c7948249e84851ba187ded46ce9bc51280ca141b67996576f1f72f27"
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 44 (2020) — NEW MEXICO WORK AND SAVE ACT

## 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/20%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0044.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/final/HB0044.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/house/HB0044.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)
- Salazar, Tomás E. — primary (person)
- Tallman, Bill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-18** 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`
- **2020-02-27** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-08** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** passed House `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Sent to Senate Corporations and Transportation 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/9284debc-cb53-49e6-90ea-4bc27c6bbf12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).