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+type: "Bill"
+title: "OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT"
+description: "OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 5"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 5 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Abeyta, Michelle Paulene", "Armstrong, Gail", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Martínez, Javier", "Szczepanski, Reena"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb84d648-8d7b-4581-9967-d590c0cfd626"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=5&year=25"
+source_hash: "1feb39319e05eeddab294e906c5fdb2c602d93b20a29e1b13bc53b346de1b55a"
+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 5 (2025) — OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT
+
+## 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/HB0005 OLD.pdf)
+2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0005.PDF)
+3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0005.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **28–13** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Abeyta, Michelle Paulene — primary (person)
+- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
+- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
+- Martínez, Javier — primary (person)
+- Szczepanski, Reena — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
+- **2025-03-04** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-03-04** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-14** special
+- **2025-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2025-03-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-21** Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-13** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb84d648-8d7b-4581-9967-d590c0cfd626`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+