---
type: "Bill"
title: "NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS"
description: "NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "New Mexico SB 16 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cates, Kathleen", "Figueroa, Natalie", "Parajón, Cristina", "Rubio, Angelica", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/904a5802-d2b9-4141-bfbd-7069b0474637"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=16&year=25"
source_hash: "628950649148ef9a3c086471e0de09aca5848e9be234223413bba6958900395a"
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 16 (2025) — NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS

## 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/SB0016.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0016.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0016.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **36–33** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **27–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Figueroa, Natalie — primary (person)
- Parajón, Cristina — primary (person)
- Rubio, Angelica — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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/904a5802-d2b9-4141-bfbd-7069b0474637`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).