---
type: "Bill"
title: "PRESCRIBING PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOTROPICS"
description: "PRESCRIBING PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOTROPICS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "New Mexico SB 53 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOL & DRUGS", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "LICENSURE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c315a2fa-f62c-4d7d-9095-65f613610bdb"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=53&year=25"
source_hash: "00e4cec1286d45c36287b262bf5bfb3c97849f33f3930488f1a592365d7c2a40"
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 53 (2025) — PRESCRIBING PSYCHOLOGIST PSYCHOTROPICS

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0053.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0053.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **62–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** 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/c315a2fa-f62c-4d7d-9095-65f613610bdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).