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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "WORKERS' COMPENSATION CHANGES"
+description: "WORKERS' COMPENSATION CHANGES"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 66"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 66 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Herndon, Pamelya"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 10
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-09"
+last_action: "2025-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c936f188-75b1-42ef-8b92-0c21c16ce42a"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=66&year=25"
+source_hash: "85618a8d4093e327a0e83e056dd2292ef8c342d2c0da680a15b7644e09b09fc9"
+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 66 (2025) — WORKERS' COMPENSATION 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/HB0066.PDF)
+2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066JCS.HTML)
+3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066JUS.HTML)
+4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **25–14** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **36–22** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-09** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-11** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-23** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-19** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-02-19** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2025-03-21** Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c936f188-75b1-42ef-8b92-0c21c16ce42a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
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