---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER RETIREMENT"
description: "PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER RETIREMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 315"
citation: "New Mexico SB 315 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS (prisons", "prisoners", "jails)", "LAW ENFORCEMENT (sheriffs", "police)", "OFFICERS & EMPLOYEES", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maestas, Antonio", "Munoz, George K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa2b67fa-cdba-41a3-8385-fc7b7d4ce90b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=315&year=21"
source_hash: "82beb2bca0648c0e7bcc8baf6b5f1d7b113064a46fa49a663c8e500c793decff"
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 315 (2021) — PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER RETIREMENT

## 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/21%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0315.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0315.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0315.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)
- Munoz, George K. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-01** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-19** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-12** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-16** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa2b67fa-cdba-41a3-8385-fc7b7d4ce90b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).