---
type: "Bill"
title: "DEATH CERTIFICATE BY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT"
description: "DEATH CERTIFICATE BY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 117"
citation: "New Mexico HB 117 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Borrego, Cynthia", "Ferrary, Joanne J.", "Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Terrazas, Luis M."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86022fa9-6333-43e5-be2d-582e73e8312a"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=117&year=25"
source_hash: "26f350d236a115253ae3208cbb24ebba975dff4e74c475677509d62205ea771c"
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 117 (2025) — DEATH CERTIFICATE BY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

## 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/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0117.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0117.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0117.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Borrego, Cynthia — primary (person)
- Ferrary, Joanne J. — primary (person)
- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Terrazas, Luis M. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-27** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-22** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-22** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86022fa9-6333-43e5-be2d-582e73e8312a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).