---
type: "Bill"
title: "COUNTY HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE FUND USE"
description: "COUNTY HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE FUND USE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 45"
citation: "New Mexico SB 45 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (programs)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Steinborn, Jeff"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9743f2a-6987-4069-9168-134018dbfe27"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=45&year=25"
source_hash: "9a393a70afbb2eaf98e6680a764d16c01f4bb7e0fbaa857c7f209f5d19092e7e"
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 45 (2025) — COUNTY HEALTH CARE ASSISTANCE FUND USE

## 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/SB0045.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0045.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0045.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **55–14** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **24–17** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Steinborn, Jeff — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9743f2a-6987-4069-9168-134018dbfe27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).