---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIREE HEALTH CARE ACT"
description: "RETIREE HEALTH CARE ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 21"
citation: "New Mexico SB 21 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Figueroa, Natalie", "Roberto J. Gonzales"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1a3ab994-6cd3-413f-8287-ff677f503b7c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=21&year=21"
source_hash: "dbc347d2b3c6e9053e77b8e3270f721b5ad0fa5301b201d9a992f6ee334a9ce3"
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 21 (2021) — RETIREE HEALTH CARE 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/21%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0021.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0021.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0021.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Figueroa, Natalie — primary (person)
- Roberto J. Gonzales — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-19** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-24** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-14** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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/1a3ab994-6cd3-413f-8287-ff677f503b7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).