---
type: "Bill"
title: "RETIRING OF STATE FLAGS"
description: "RETIRING OF STATE FLAGS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 468"
citation: "New Mexico HB 468 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MISCELLANEOUS", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dow, Rebecca", "Mejia, Angelita", "Murphy, Mark B."]
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/a16d5bfd-703d-4108-842f-f36c22dc64ab"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=468&year=25"
source_hash: "ed13c0ce2181977cfb4d612094ba6713fa5325f28d072244f21a466fab263501"
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 468 (2025) — RETIRING OF STATE FLAGS

## 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/HB0468.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0468.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)
- Mejia, Angelita — primary (person)
- Murphy, Mark B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-16** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a16d5bfd-703d-4108-842f-f36c22dc64ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).