---
type: "Bill"
title: "TELEDENTISTRY DEFINITION"
description: "TELEDENTISTRY DEFINITION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 200"
citation: "New Mexico SB 200 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-31"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33030ffe-2a8b-453a-8801-823f020e981e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=200&year=21"
source_hash: "1aa02496d57687cafc17577fcf2e1ba6aad1997d1f81cd7f5f713bd10963fe0a"
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 200 (2021) — TELEDENTISTRY DEFINITION

## 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/21%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0200.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0200.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0200.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-31** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/33030ffe-2a8b-453a-8801-823f020e981e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).