---
type: "Bill"
title: "DIABETIC FOOT ULCER EQUIPMENT COVERAGE"
description: "DIABETIC FOOT ULCER EQUIPMENT COVERAGE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 233"
citation: "New Mexico HB 233 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "INSURANCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cates, Kathleen", "Chávez, Eleanor", "Hernandez, Joshua N.", "Thomson, Elizabeth \"Liz\""]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-30"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0aaaa66b-f449-488b-9fed-a5bd78e25f76"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=233&year=25"
source_hash: "8ca630f4a3a3be38a91b81b5f8f40ecc3f229278fb100dcb7e6d883519de2ab8"
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 233 (2025) — DIABETIC FOOT ULCER EQUIPMENT COVERAGE

## 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/HB0233.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0233.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0233.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **62–1** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Chávez, Eleanor — primary (person)
- Hernandez, Joshua N. — primary (person)
- Thomson, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Commerce & Economic Development Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0aaaa66b-f449-488b-9fed-a5bd78e25f76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).