---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRAVEL INSURANCE ACT"
description: "TRAVEL INSURANCE ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "New Mexico SB 168 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharer, William E."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39df4b70-3e10-4a66-aebe-5178d45c1d07"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=168&year=25"
source_hash: "6eb9427dc0fea6db75eba58d6f26b90ddec3f4e08e6c740dee022c569db4c7f5"
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 168 (2025) — TRAVEL INSURANCE ACT

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CT substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0168CTS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0168.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0168.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **60–2** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sharer, William E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-03-07** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-10** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39df4b70-3e10-4a66-aebe-5178d45c1d07`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).