---
type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY"
description: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025S1"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "New Mexico SB 2 (2025S1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abeyta, Michelle Paulene", "Chandler, Christine", "Duhigg, Katy M.", "Herndon, Pamelya"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 7
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-10-01"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85c4208d-b91f-4c97-8fb6-f26f5b94631c"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=2&year=25s"
source_hash: "b711fd95db599192996fb691b1668ccd294df812cadb377d0271831487f0eee7"
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 2 (2025S1) — CRIMINAL COMPETENCY

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25 Special/final/SB0002.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25 Special/bills/senate/SB0002.html)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Abeyta, Michelle Paulene — primary (person)
- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Duhigg, Katy M. — primary (person)
- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-07** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-10-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-02** passed House `passage`
- **2025-10-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-10-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-01** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/85c4208d-b91f-4c97-8fb6-f26f5b94631c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).