---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT CHANGES"
description: "HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 40"
citation: "New Mexico SB 40 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DISABILITIES", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (programs)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9241f204-52f6-454f-8508-167347bb892a"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=40&year=22"
source_hash: "cc729b5a04f799dd483afd4da8bc33581990bc286b57848f58898ac5119ac262"
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 40 (2022) — HEALTH CARE QUALITY SURCHARGE ACT CHANGES

## 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/SB0040.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0040.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** germane
- **2022-03-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-07** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** Sent to `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-08** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Taxation & Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9241f204-52f6-454f-8508-167347bb892a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).