---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDY UNIFIED JAIL & PRISON SYSTEM"
description: "STUDY UNIFIED JAIL & PRISON SYSTEM"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SM 6"
citation: "New Mexico SM 6 (2022)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS (prisons", "prisoners", "jails)", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neville, Steven P.", "Ortiz y Pino, Gerald"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-02-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcb38187-1821-451e-abac-b0701f46ebde"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=6&year=22"
source_hash: "8a5a9bb962b84256f331849b4eb59cca337880a2d72ec4535a38fe8c1cf021d4"
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 SM 6 (2022) — STUDY UNIFIED JAIL & PRISON SYSTEM

## 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/22%20Regular/final/SM006.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM006.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Neville, Steven P. — primary (person)
- Ortiz y Pino, Gerald — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-14** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-01-31** 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/bcb38187-1821-451e-abac-b0701f46ebde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).