---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS"
description: "CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 131"
citation: "New Mexico HB 131 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "PUBLIC SAFETY (emergency services", "etc.)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cates, Kathleen", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette", "Thomson, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f12ce3c-34c4-4420-bee6-d684bfcf980a"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=131&year=25"
source_hash: "ac8401c6388fb6faaec485607d6be12e270481831e61c87140f683bf689fa8d3"
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 HB 131 (2025) — CAREGIVER BACKGROUND CHECKS

## 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/25%20Regular/final/HB0131.PDF)
2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0131JCS.HTML)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0131.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **48–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette — primary (person)
- Thomson, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION committee report adopted `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-22** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f12ce3c-34c4-4420-bee6-d684bfcf980a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).