---
type: "Bill"
title: "INCREASE ATTEMPTED MURDER PENALTY"
description: "INCREASE ATTEMPTED MURDER PENALTY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 96"
citation: "New Mexico SB 96 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Borrego, Cynthia", "Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d0d76a9-c79d-4ee8-bb68-1624da0e4f0a"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=96&year=24"
source_hash: "ccf88a9b7e1d6ec03090a4ccde94e04325e2bf9cad1d9e5711cde96aef3fa2b0"
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 96 (2024) — INCREASE ATTEMPTED MURDER PENALTY

## 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/24%20Regular/final/SB0096.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0096.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **49–18** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **32–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Borrego, Cynthia — primary (person)
- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** germane
- **2024-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2024-02-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-13** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d0d76a9-c79d-4ee8-bb68-1624da0e4f0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).