---
type: "Bill"
title: "LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT CHANGES"
description: "LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "New Mexico SB 159 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LEGISLATURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ingle, Stuart", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d33355d2-2985-4f9c-8860-671b69573d86"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=159&year=22"
source_hash: "a0eabe0198f3a46d64950b94cac4e5442eeb856b15447dabab3319fb18f7ca55"
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 159 (2022) — LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT CHANGES

## 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/22%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0159.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/SB0159.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0159.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ingle, Stuart — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-02** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-01-24** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** germane
- **2022-02-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-15** Senate concurred in House amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d33355d2-2985-4f9c-8860-671b69573d86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).