---
type: "Bill"
title: "NURSING PRACTICE CHANGES"
description: "NURSING PRACTICE CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 178"
citation: "New Mexico HB 178 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anyanonu, Janelle", "Gallegos, Doreen Y.", "Herndon, Pamelya", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Johnson, D. Wonda"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88eceba9-6abf-4455-86a8-425aeb789535"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=178&year=25"
source_hash: "6388221dba33a2b595b040758416a0e81ca9a53b9b5cab3588fe6548ace38452"
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 178 (2025) — NURSING PRACTICE 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/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0178.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0178.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0178.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **56–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anyanonu, Janelle — primary (person)
- Gallegos, Doreen Y. — primary (person)
- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-20** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-22** House concurred in Senate amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/88eceba9-6abf-4455-86a8-425aeb789535`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).