---
type: "Bill"
title: "CERTIFIED NURSE ANESTHETIST ROLE"
description: "CERTIFIED NURSE ANESTHETIST ROLE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "New Mexico SB 78 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon, Meredith A.", "Gallegos, David M.", "Hickey, Martin", "Padilla, Michael", "Trujillo, Linda M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/856ab112-f8f1-4613-bce6-21a2f2cc87bb"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=78&year=25"
source_hash: "95a6f14db47d11bb1300f7c1ab06f62939b34127e91a62351c50ef997df9bc10"
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 78 (2025) — CERTIFIED NURSE ANESTHETIST ROLE

## 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/SB0078.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0078.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **29–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon, Meredith A. — primary (person)
- Gallegos, David M. — primary (person)
- Hickey, Martin — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)
- Trujillo, Linda M. — 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`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** 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/856ab112-f8f1-4613-bce6-21a2f2cc87bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).