---
type: "Bill"
title: "HAIR BRAIDING LICENSURE"
description: "HAIR BRAIDING LICENSURE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 281"
citation: "New Mexico HB 281 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anyanonu, Janelle", "Herndon, Pamelya", "Pope, Harold", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a958fd27-2748-4d54-99c0-47d7abc949a3"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=281&year=25"
source_hash: "c9b353573f8305e104c8f05c4fe80eb8982493d88f364f81134176fa778e19a5"
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 281 (2025) — HAIR BRAIDING LICENSURE

## 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/HB0281.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0281.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0281.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **61–1** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anyanonu, Janelle — primary (person)
- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)
- Pope, Harold — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** Sent to House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee & House Commerce & Economic Development Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a958fd27-2748-4d54-99c0-47d7abc949a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).