---
type: "Bill"
title: "ELIMINATE POCKET VETOES, CA"
description: "ELIMINATE POCKET VETOES, CA"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HJR 2"
citation: "New Mexico HJR 2 (2025)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["CONSTITUTION OF NEW MEXICO", "LEGISLATURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph", "McQueen, Matthew", "Montoya, Rod", "Szczepanski, Reena", "Woods, Pat"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-02"
last_action: "2025-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6eee82a-c7d0-4160-8b31-1040d6c85679"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=JR&legNo=2&year=25"
source_hash: "f11de23a72b5a3028e5a80db984d85e6acb72d0b070be239b5b6f3b1f0a00694"
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 HJR 2 (2025) — ELIMINATE POCKET VETOES, CA

## 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/HJR02.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HJR02.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/resolutions/house/HJR02.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)
- McQueen, Matthew — primary (person)
- Montoya, Rod — primary (person)
- Szczepanski, Reena — primary (person)
- Woods, Pat — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-02** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-27** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-01** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6eee82a-c7d0-4160-8b31-1040d6c85679`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).