---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOOK TWICE FOR MOTORCYCLE LICENSE PLATE"
description: "LOOK TWICE FOR MOTORCYCLE LICENSE PLATE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "New Mexico SB 236 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["MOTOR VEHICLES (autos", "trucks", "buses", "cycles)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berghmans, Heather", "Jaramillo, Leo"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-31"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4fc4ec8-c6ac-4948-b9bb-bcd83c5cd431"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=236&year=25"
source_hash: "2d2180871bfcc7a503f94a3df8b88ba55cd942898d77f9616f4295fe6aabddcc"
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 236 (2025) — LOOK TWICE FOR MOTORCYCLE LICENSE PLATE

## 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/SB0236.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0236.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0236.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **60–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berghmans, Heather — primary (person)
- Jaramillo, Leo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-31** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to House Transportation, Public Works & Capital Improvements Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-21** 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/b4fc4ec8-c6ac-4948-b9bb-bcd83c5cd431`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).