---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS"
description: "CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 66"
citation: "New Mexico SB 66 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berghmans, Heather", "Duhigg, Katy M.", "Nava, Cindy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df81163b-eb3f-41fb-910e-d6c3774897a3"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=66&year=25"
source_hash: "95fa90a8c66b9678286c43b5a17d7db4ae9aa29f1a186285d6841970bcb395e8"
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 66 (2025) — CRIMINAL OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT EXEMPTIONS

## 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/SB0066.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0066.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **52–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Berghmans, Heather — primary (person)
- Duhigg, Katy M. — primary (person)
- Nava, Cindy — 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`
- **2025-02-24** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-20** 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/df81163b-eb3f-41fb-910e-d6c3774897a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).