---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE"
description: "PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 535"
citation: "New Mexico SB 535 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muñoz, George K.", "Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bd33697-38b3-4e62-81b6-f32d6340b9ef"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=535&year=25"
source_hash: "7a827e131c98ee4038305eb7f3ebe1c21bf91bfd204a29fb206275245fe932ec"
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 535 (2025) — PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE

## 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/SB0535.pdf)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0535FCS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0535.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0535.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **40–23** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **24–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Muñoz, George K. — primary (person)
- Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** not printed Senate Finance Committee
- **2025-03-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-22** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-22** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-22** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bd33697-38b3-4e62-81b6-f32d6340b9ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).