---
type: "Bill"
title: "CONTINUE & IMPROVE 520 LANGUAGE"
description: "CONTINUE & IMPROVE 520 LANGUAGE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SM 9"
citation: "New Mexico SM 9 (2025)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER", "NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinto, Shannon D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a90b1122-8b2f-448a-896f-b2786495a990"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=9&year=25"
source_hash: "06f571f565ce16dc354bdc51d14b78364670b1b084d2a68d095c422aeb3f8dbc"
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 SM 9 (2025) — CONTINUE & IMPROVE 520 LANGUAGE

## 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/SM009.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM009.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pinto, Shannon D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a90b1122-8b2f-448a-896f-b2786495a990`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).