---
type: "Bill"
title: "WORKERS' COMPENSATION CHANGES"
description: "WORKERS' COMPENSATION CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 66"
citation: "New Mexico HB 66 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Herndon, Pamelya"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-09"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c936f188-75b1-42ef-8b92-0c21c16ce42a"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=66&year=25"
source_hash: "85618a8d4093e327a0e83e056dd2292ef8c342d2c0da680a15b7644e09b09fc9"
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 66 (2025) — WORKERS' COMPENSATION CHANGES

## 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/HB0066.PDF)
2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066JCS.HTML)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0066.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **25–14** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **36–22** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-09** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-19** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c936f188-75b1-42ef-8b92-0c21c16ce42a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).