---
type: "Bill"
title: "VETERINARY MEDICAL LOAN REPAYMENT PGM"
description: "VETERINARY MEDICAL LOAN REPAYMENT PGM"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "New Mexico SB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS (fish", "livestock", "pets", "wildlife)", "EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boone, Pat", "Gonzales, Anita", "Lujan, Tara L.", "Vincent, Harlan", "Woods, Pat"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af9d4999-e080-4a2a-8f00-3f1550f04c77"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=8&year=25"
source_hash: "77fdd172129d7a0e224cb3631454b6442a22209625f1eea4a2b689513429b336"
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 8 (2025) — VETERINARY MEDICAL LOAN REPAYMENT PGM

## 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/SB0008.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0008.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0008.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Boone, Pat — primary (person)
- Gonzales, Anita — primary (person)
- Lujan, Tara L. — primary (person)
- Vincent, Harlan — primary (person)
- Woods, Pat — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-30** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Sent to House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af9d4999-e080-4a2a-8f00-3f1550f04c77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).