---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADD CLASSES TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION DRUGS"
description: "ADD CLASSES TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION DRUGS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 39"
citation: "New Mexico SB 39 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "INSURANCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamblen, Carrie", "Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Stewart, Mimi", "Szczepanski, Reena"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a3d0131-02c0-439e-9cc3-d0199b1719de"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=39&year=25"
source_hash: "fea8c865b355255dd7dcac53201af6341f2b1e335b1a41cc6d3fa23de0c0b509"
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 39 (2025) — ADD CLASSES TO PRIOR AUTHORIZATION DRUGS

## 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/SB0039.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0039.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0039.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **61–6** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hamblen, Carrie — primary (person)
- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)
- Szczepanski, Reena — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-18** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a3d0131-02c0-439e-9cc3-d0199b1719de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).