---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIREARMS NEAR POLLING PLACES"
description: "FIREARMS NEAR POLLING PLACES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "New Mexico SB 5 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "ELECTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph", "McKenna, Brenda G.", "Szczepanski, Reena", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2f5794e-0059-4762-9f12-a0d65f604a4c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=5&year=24"
source_hash: "06d1a8d1e5fd258dbcc756632e64b91f0bd9975e85cf06e3f9b538276dff4588"
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 5 (2024) — FIREARMS NEAR POLLING PLACES

## 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/SB0005.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0005.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0005JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0005.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)
- McKenna, Brenda G. — primary (person)
- Szczepanski, Reena — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-16** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** germane
- **2024-02-01** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2024-01-30** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2024-02-13** passed House `passage`
- **2024-02-14** 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/a2f5794e-0059-4762-9f12-a0d65f604a4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).