---
type: "Bill"
title: "DETERMINATION OF EMBEZZLEMENT PENALTY"
description: "DETERMINATION OF EMBEZZLEMENT PENALTY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 155"
citation: "New Mexico SB 155 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16467ba2-0a01-48b2-8a4d-4ee2be36e720"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=155&year=25"
source_hash: "2c70a726978f5f18bd35a28ca5b6f175a1db0304394dbdd91caa7c57229234ce"
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 SB 155 (2025) — DETERMINATION OF EMBEZZLEMENT PENALTY

## 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/SB0155.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0155.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0155.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `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/16467ba2-0a01-48b2-8a4d-4ee2be36e720`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).