---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMPLIANCE WITH FED PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION"
description: "COMPLIANCE WITH FED PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SM 37"
citation: "New Mexico SM 37 (2023)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONS (prisons", "prisoners", "jails)", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pope, Harold"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-09"
last_action: "2023-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9ed65a11-9d2e-4320-8868-7b82bf9abd48"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=37&year=23"
source_hash: "054e35e5bb6b7569d54fe02bd8a3a58834f2219122f9fda6c2e7f7c80a4aab65"
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 37 (2023) — COMPLIANCE WITH FED PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION

## 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/23%20Regular/final/SM037.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM037.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Pope, Harold — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-09** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9ed65a11-9d2e-4320-8868-7b82bf9abd48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).