---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADD RACKETEERING CRIMES"
description: "ADD RACKETEERING CRIMES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "New Mexico SB 70 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt, Craig W.", "Cullen, Catherine J."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86583e01-a074-478d-b3bb-e00ac114e6c9"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=70&year=25"
source_hash: "6130bc3fb81a119e4af10afa94688a95cb46e4e4813a8aa718b4c53dc41b121f"
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 70 (2025) — ADD RACKETEERING CRIMES

## 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/SB0070.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0070.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0070JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0070.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **60–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brandt, Craig W. — primary (person)
- Cullen, Catherine J. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-06** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-01** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** 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/86583e01-a074-478d-b3bb-e00ac114e6c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).