---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL GOV'T AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS"
description: "LOCAL GOV'T AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "New Mexico SB 8 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chandler, Christine", "Lopez, Linda M.", "Small, Nathan P.", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/409bf6a7-84ea-40b8-86fb-ca583d7e4b59"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=8&year=21"
source_hash: "a0063f88b4a34ecc45b0d11d86bebb76ff616509d4da5e655cca2f3eddb7823e"
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 8 (2021) — LOCAL GOV'T AIR QUALITY REGULATIONS

## 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/SB0008.pdf)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0008FCS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0008.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0008.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Lopez, Linda M. — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-19** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-12** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-12** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/409bf6a7-84ea-40b8-86fb-ca583d7e4b59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).