---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC WORKS MINIMUM WAGE DEFINITIONS"
description: "PUBLIC WORKS MINIMUM WAGE DEFINITIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "New Mexico SB 59 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chávez, Eleanor", "Padilla, Michael"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c6e03821-18ad-4553-9aaf-db376c8dd632"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=59&year=25"
source_hash: "3cfd488f502b6b5ce602ea4b2d12db7f9abce1452f32be77b84f32b79c34f532"
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 59 (2025) — PUBLIC WORKS MINIMUM WAGE DEFINITIONS

## Version chain

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

1. **CT substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0059CTS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0059.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0059.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **34–27** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **23–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chávez, Eleanor — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c6e03821-18ad-4553-9aaf-db376c8dd632`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).