---
type: "Bill"
title: "CLOSE & RELOCATE CERTAIN MAGISTRATE COURTS"
description: "CLOSE & RELOCATE CERTAIN MAGISTRATE COURTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 352"
citation: "New Mexico HB 352 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Herrera, Susan K.", "Jaramillo, Leo", "Sanchez, Joseph"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f354b318-9560-4777-b748-e8e500e97095"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=352&year=25"
source_hash: "3125b25e17d34a01923ad6f63ce38ea3efa913ceb9706b37c5f6e1d13c15c07d"
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 352 (2025) — CLOSE & RELOCATE CERTAIN MAGISTRATE COURTS

## 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/HB0352.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0352.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0352.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **55–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
- Jaramillo, Leo — primary (person)
- Sanchez, Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-08** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-27** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f354b318-9560-4777-b748-e8e500e97095`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).