---
type: "Bill"
title: "ARCHITECT & ENGINEERING SVCS. & CONSTRUCTION"
description: "ARCHITECT & ENGINEERING SVCS. & CONSTRUCTION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 456"
citation: "New Mexico HB 456 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baca, Brian G."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ebab250-abc5-453e-9856-5555de74d1ff"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=456&year=25"
source_hash: "c5e1862003ac621ca08123950467fa5c7497c5badead995a1f119a662215e89b"
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 456 (2025) — ARCHITECT & ENGINEERING SVCS. & CONSTRUCTION

## 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/HB0456.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0456.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **55–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Baca, Brian G. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-20** 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/2ebab250-abc5-453e-9856-5555de74d1ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).