---
type: "Bill"
title: "OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT"
description: "OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "New Mexico HB 5 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abeyta, Michelle Paulene", "Armstrong, Gail", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Martínez, Javier", "Szczepanski, Reena"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb84d648-8d7b-4581-9967-d590c0cfd626"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=5&year=25"
source_hash: "1feb39319e05eeddab294e906c5fdb2c602d93b20a29e1b13bc53b346de1b55a"
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 5 (2025) — OFFICE OF CHILD ADVOCATE ACT

## 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/HB0005 OLD.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0005.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0005.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **28–13** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abeyta, Michelle Paulene — primary (person)
- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Martínez, Javier — primary (person)
- Szczepanski, Reena — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-04** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-04** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** special
- **2025-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-17** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2025-03-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS, as amended, 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/cb84d648-8d7b-4581-9967-d590c0cfd626`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).