---
type: "Bill"
title: "STRATEGIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SITE READINESS"
description: "STRATEGIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SITE READINESS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "New Mexico SB 169 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt, Craig W.", "Dixon, Meredith A.", "Garratt, Joy", "Hernandez, Joshua N.", "Padilla, Michael"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28e8de24-b232-4379-be18-1d7362a00914"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=169&year=25"
source_hash: "25dd9a6835b8f7f1fca9c52608ce11d0fb80971a30efb51a0d19d80a9988dddc"
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 169 (2025) — STRATEGIC ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SITE READINESS

## 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/SB0169.pdf)
2. **CT substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0169CTS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0169.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0169.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **59–4** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **37–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brandt, Craig W. — primary (person)
- Dixon, Meredith A. — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Hernandez, Joshua N. — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-08** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28e8de24-b232-4379-be18-1d7362a00914`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).