---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE ATTORNEYS CHANGES"
description: "COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE ATTORNEYS CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 24"
citation: "New Mexico HB 24 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["García, Miguel P.", "Jaramillo, Leo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-02"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7fdbce00-3eff-420b-8742-f7d0bf4b1360"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=24&year=25"
source_hash: "70f5a9643561931cd7bdbace53df4f6f20de7325daa49bbc2eb8d2f354ea42ae"
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 24 (2025) — COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE ATTORNEYS CHANGES

## 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/HB0024.PDF)
2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0024JCS.HTML)
3. **RD substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0024RDS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0024.html)

## Votes

- house passage — **61–1** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- García, Miguel P. — primary (person)
- Jaramillo, Leo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-02** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-18** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-22** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7fdbce00-3eff-420b-8742-f7d0bf4b1360`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).