---
type: "Bill"
title: "ATHLETIC COMPETITION ACT CHANGES"
description: "ATHLETIC COMPETITION ACT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 176"
citation: "New Mexico SB 176 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MISCELLANEOUS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De La Cruz, Art", "Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-03-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f55696a7-a490-446d-b821-095df55e1146"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=176&year=24"
source_hash: "046dbeccc630ea43586811f944e1df660f50f6e0257eb3fa80fd6f61436fc47b"
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 176 (2024) — ATHLETIC COMPETITION ACT 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/24%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0176.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0176.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0176.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **63–3** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **20–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- De La Cruz, Art — primary (person)
- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** germane
- **2024-01-23** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-10** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f55696a7-a490-446d-b821-095df55e1146`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).