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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT"
+description: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 8"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 8 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Borrego, Cynthia", "Cates, Kathleen", "Chandler, Christine", "Garratt, Joy", "Little, Charlotte"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 9
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2025-02-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e67abad8-58c3-4328-b89b-b16f9f36d4ba"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=8&year=25"
+source_hash: "336ec6fc1ecd105efd13b623a3e08250229927a845903562d6ed040f801a5ef9"
+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 8 (2025) — CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT
+
+## 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/HB0008.pdf)
+2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0008.PDF)
+3. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0008JCS.HTML)
+4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0008.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **38–3** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **48–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Borrego, Cynthia — primary (person)
+- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
+- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
+- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
+- Little, Charlotte — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-15** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-02-13** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-22** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2025-02-17** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-20** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-02-21** floor substitute adopted (2 amendment)
+- **2025-02-21** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2025-02-28** Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e67abad8-58c3-4328-b89b-b16f9f36d4ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+