---
type: "Bill"
title: "STATE PARK DAY PASSES FOR VETERANS"
description: "STATE PARK DAY PASSES FOR VETERANS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 161"
citation: "New Mexico HB 161 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)", "PARKS", "MONUMENTS & RECREATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Block, Jay C.", "Dow, Rebecca", "Lujan, Tara L.", "Martinez, Alan T.", "Sariñana, Debra M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f9dfae6-b495-40d2-8106-d640ee1010a7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=161&year=25"
source_hash: "e81bedec912be711400e1cf157a6d69d31f72916d44c3982a307c368a1d605df"
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 161 (2025) — STATE PARK DAY PASSES FOR VETERANS

## 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/HB0161.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0161.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **59–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Block, Jay C. — primary (person)
- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)
- Lujan, Tara L. — primary (person)
- Martinez, Alan T. — primary (person)
- Sariñana, Debra M. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-08** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f9dfae6-b495-40d2-8106-d640ee1010a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).