---
type: "Bill"
title: "INDEPENDENT THEATER BEER & WINE LICENSES"
description: "INDEPENDENT THEATER BEER & WINE LICENSES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "New Mexico SB 159 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOL & DRUGS", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jaramillo, Leo"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0cedd36-a423-4aea-b237-6d6c76f4e2a9"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=159&year=25"
source_hash: "09fa26979c9e7a4b47c0abda62bc25c9e6107685d7c768a95fe023464df81fc6"
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 159 (2025) — INDEPENDENT THEATER BEER & WINE LICENSES

## 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/SB0159.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0159.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0159JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0159.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **57–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jaramillo, Leo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-11** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-08** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0cedd36-a423-4aea-b237-6d6c76f4e2a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).