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legislation/us/states/nm/2025/hb-131.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS"
+description: "CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 131"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 131 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "PUBLIC SAFETY (emergency services", "etc.)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cates, Kathleen", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette", "Thomson, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-17"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f12ce3c-34c4-4420-bee6-d684bfcf980a"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=131&year=25"
+source_hash: "ac8401c6388fb6faaec485607d6be12e270481831e61c87140f683bf689fa8d3"
+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 131 (2025) — CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS
+
+## 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/25%20Regular/final/HB0131.PDF)
+2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0131JCS.HTML)
+3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0131.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **48–7** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
+- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
+- Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette — primary (person)
+- Thomson, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-17** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-10** WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION committee report adopted `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-13** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-03-13** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-22** passed Senate `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f12ce3c-34c4-4420-bee6-d684bfcf980a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+