---
type: "Bill"
title: "CREATE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT"
description: "CREATE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "New Mexico SB 16 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Thomson, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f722e539-568a-4233-9cee-55161a034d66"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=16&year=23"
source_hash: "dcfb8415afcab4e3497cb2d15f877d293e0d42787845ea45f719b51d43ff7356"
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 16 (2023) — CREATE HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT

## 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/23%20Regular/final/SB0016.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0016.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Thomson, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-06** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-07** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f722e539-568a-4233-9cee-55161a034d66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).