---
type: "Bill"
title: "RURAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY FUND"
description: "RURAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "New Mexico SB 7 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Gail", "Matthews, Marian", "Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6daaf47e-9e25-428a-9c64-801658a777c9"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=7&year=23"
source_hash: "63178f75b7b83982b4eb35d1732fe9f0768b154539ecceaa61b05d896801abc9"
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 7 (2023) — RURAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY FUND

## 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/23%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0007.pdf)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0007FCS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0007.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0007.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Matthews, Marian — primary (person)
- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **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/6daaf47e-9e25-428a-9c64-801658a777c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).