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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS"
+description: "CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 66"
+citation: "New Mexico SB 66 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Berghmans, Heather", "Duhigg, Katy M.", "Nava, Cindy"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 8
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-22"
+last_action: "2025-04-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df81163b-eb3f-41fb-910e-d6c3774897a3"
+source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=66&year=25"
+source_hash: "95fa90a8c66b9678286c43b5a17d7db4ae9aa29f1a186285d6841970bcb395e8"
+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 SB 66 (2025) — CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS
+
+## 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/SB0066.PDF)
+2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0066.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **52–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Berghmans, Heather — primary (person)
+- Duhigg, Katy M. — primary (person)
+- Nava, Cindy — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-24** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2025-03-17** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
+- **2025-03-20** DO PASS 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/df81163b-eb3f-41fb-910e-d6c3774897a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
+