---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEMPORARY VETERINARY PERMITS"
description: "TEMPORARY VETERINARY PERMITS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 56"
citation: "New Mexico HB 56 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (fish", "livestock", "pets", "wildlife)", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson, Phelps", "Fajardo, Kelly K.", "Ivey-Soto, Daniel A.", "Martínez, Javier"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b9bdd64-b7af-4fd2-8c13-20259e6207f7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=56&year=22"
source_hash: "a3de590a3bc91d146612510279d1b947760fd1cccc1a03a8a0d1be43803fadce"
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 56 (2022) — TEMPORARY VETERINARY PERMITS

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/HB0056.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/house/HB0056.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Anderson, Phelps — primary (person)
- Fajardo, Kelly K. — primary (person)
- Ivey-Soto, Daniel A. — primary (person)
- Martínez, Javier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** not printed House Rules and Order of Business Committee
- **2022-03-02** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-09** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-01-28** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2022-01-28** germane & printed
- **2022-01-28** referred to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b9bdd64-b7af-4fd2-8c13-20259e6207f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).