---
type: "Bill"
title: "GAME COMMISSION REFORM"
description: "GAME COMMISSION REFORM"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "New Mexico SB 5 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (fish", "livestock", "pets", "wildlife)", "BOARDS & COMMISSIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brantley, Crystal", "Campos, Pete", "McQueen, Matthew", "Small, Nathan P.", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da32d999-f10c-4f59-8ead-ce651b9e3165"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=5&year=25"
source_hash: "68132c6512424b51852de9014db38542d95e1e5dd2f5926085d2b9bfa4461646"
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 5 (2025) — GAME COMMISSION REFORM

## 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/SB0005.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0005.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0005.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Brantley, Crystal — primary (person)
- Campos, Pete — primary (person)
- McQueen, Matthew — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2025-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-01** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da32d999-f10c-4f59-8ead-ce651b9e3165`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).