---
type: "Bill"
title: "HEALTH CARE DELIVERY & ACCESS ACT"
description: "HEALTH CARE DELIVERY & ACCESS ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "New Mexico SB 17 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallegos, Doreen Y.", "Harper, Jason C.", "Hickey, Martin", "Padilla, Michael", "Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/93a44173-0abe-495e-b70c-1e10382bff80"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=17&year=24"
source_hash: "09f456d38ce9c7f0b05666a8a6a46f54755ca95d37ff6f75067dcfa2d0309d0d"
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 17 (2024) — HEALTH CARE DELIVERY & ACCESS ACT

## 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/24%20Regular/final/SB0017.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0017.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Gallegos, Doreen Y. — primary (person)
- Harper, Jason C. — primary (person)
- Hickey, Martin — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)
- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** passed House `passage`
- **2024-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-08** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** germane
- **2024-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/93a44173-0abe-495e-b70c-1e10382bff80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).