Several measures on the House floor were decided during the session. Below is a concise roundup of the formal votes recorded on the transcript and the disposition of other bills raised on the floor during the same session.

Votes at a glance

- House Judiciary Committee substitute for House Bill 24 (Community Governance Attorney program): Passed on final passage by a vote of 61 in the affirmative, 1 in the negative. Sponsor described the bill as streamlining changes to the Community Governance Attorney Act and noted collaboration with the Community Governance Commission, the UNM (University of New Mexico) School of Law and the Higher Education Department.

- House Bill 36 (Optometry Act changes): Passed on final passage by a vote of 56 in the affirmative, 7 in the negative. (Full debate and context appear in separate coverage.)

- House Bill 117 (physician assistants sign death certificates; HB117 as amended): Passed on final passage by a vote of 64 in the affirmative, 0 in the negative. The sponsor said the bill extends the time before a mandatory call to the medical examiner’s office and allows physician assistants to sign death certificates in specified circumstances to improve efficiency.

- House Judiciary Committee substitute for House Bill 79 (interstate compact for speech-language pathologists and audiologists): Final-passage vote was opened on the floor; the transcript records the motion and that the vote was opened for members, but a recorded tally does not appear in the provided transcript excerpt (outcome: not specified in transcript). The sponsor said the bill is an interstate compact analogous to a compact considered for occupational therapists.

Other committee reports and committee-substitute actions

The transcript includes numerous committee reports adopted on the floor (Government, Elections and Indian Affairs; Energy, Environment and Natural Resources; Consumer and Public Affairs; and others). Committee recommendations included both favorable and substitute recommendations and multiple referrals to subsequent committees (for example, referrals to Judiciary or Appropriations and Finance). The transcript lists committee chairs and motions to adopt committee reports; where the chair moved adoption, the clerk recorded the committee-report actions and the chair declared the report adopted by voice vote.

What’s next

Bills that passed final passage will proceed through standard enrolling procedures and, where required, to the governor for signature or veto. Measures that were reported out and referred to other committees will be scheduled according to committee calendars and rules.