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+type: "Bill"
+title: "ED. RETIREMENT BENEFICIARY CHANGES"
+description: "ED. RETIREMENT BENEFICIARY CHANGES"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 251"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 251 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "OFFICERS & EMPLOYEES", "PUBLIC"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Baca, Brian G.", "Cullen, Catherine J.", "Hall II, William A.", "Mirabal Moya, Tanya", "Terrazas, Luis M."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-04"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/50dc9d8b-47a2-48e7-8a09-69b877d044a4"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=251&year=25"
+source_hash: "9b3117d4f317973dd5fa200fe994077223c460eab572dcb3c6378fee03e54921"
+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 251 (2025) — ED. RETIREMENT BENEFICIARY CHANGES
+
+## 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/HB0251.PDF)
+2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0251.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- house passage — **62–0** (pass) · lower
+- senate passage — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Baca, Brian G. — primary (person)
+- Cullen, Catherine J. — primary (person)
+- Hall II, William A. — primary (person)
+- Mirabal Moya, Tanya — primary (person)
+- Terrazas, Luis M. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-04** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-05** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-03-05** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-27** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-20** passed Senate `passage`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/50dc9d8b-47a2-48e7-8a09-69b877d044a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+