---
type: "Bill"
title: "LIMITED ENGLISH ACCESS TO STATE PROGRAMS"
description: "LIMITED ENGLISH ACCESS TO STATE PROGRAMS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 22"
citation: "New Mexico HB 22 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bounkeua, Kay", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia", "Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-04"
last_action: "2022-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/553cd49f-4504-4aa4-baf3-f06f8b035d6e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=22&year=22"
source_hash: "30d8e03ff7cb0c7127e0f378518651cb3b9a193688624ad5765979f394336070"
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 22 (2022) — LIMITED ENGLISH ACCESS TO STATE PROGRAMS

## 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/22%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0022.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/HB0022.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/house/HB0022.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Bounkeua, Kay — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)
- Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-24** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-09** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-10** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/553cd49f-4504-4aa4-baf3-f06f8b035d6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).