---
type: "Bill"
title: "HONORING NURSES AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS"
description: "HONORING NURSES AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HM 3"
citation: "New Mexico HM 3 (2026)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cates, Kathleen", "Jones, Jenifer", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2026-01-06"
last_action: "2026-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e96f3b62-243a-41b7-8acf-c86ce3ea5bfd"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=3&year=26"
source_hash: "cdc61792c0f74c66835f9ae1e42ace62bc543f6b1e52e7c16f11125a19a4fc5b"
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 HM 3 (2026) — HONORING NURSES AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/HM003.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/memorials/house/HM003.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Jones, Jenifer — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-06** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27** not printed, not referred to committee, tabled
- **2026-02-14** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-05** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2026-02-05** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e96f3b62-243a-41b7-8acf-c86ce3ea5bfd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).