---
type: "Bill"
title: "SEARCH & RESCUE EMERGENCY RESPONSES"
description: "SEARCH & RESCUE EMERGENCY RESPONSES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 353"
citation: "New Mexico SB 353 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC SAFETY (emergency services", "etc.)", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinto, Shannon D.", "Steinborn, Jeff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa3a70a1-a743-4cea-8b33-58daa137913e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=353&year=25"
source_hash: "ac4fdacdd4e394092b4a19915e448e8c2c228e7fea9ffd7174edf4aaaf25e269"
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 353 (2025) — SEARCH & RESCUE EMERGENCY RESPONSES

## 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/SB0353.pdf)
2. **CT substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0353CTS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0353.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0353.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **31–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pinto, Shannon D. — primary (person)
- Steinborn, Jeff — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11** Sent to Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee & Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Senate concurred in House amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aa3a70a1-a743-4cea-8b33-58daa137913e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).