---
type: "Bill"
title: "ADDITIONAL SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGESHIP"
description: "ADDITIONAL SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGESHIP"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 95"
citation: "New Mexico HB 95 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hochman-Vigil, Dayan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-16"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db598d51-c35d-46fa-b98e-22af726aec37"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=95&year=26"
source_hash: "0f89d3cad3411c91dd4536f684658e281cd624c7caa12d189f2e4736f390ce9b"
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 HB 95 (2026) — ADDITIONAL SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT JUDGESHIP

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0095.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/HB0095.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0095.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **65–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-19** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2026-02-18** passed Senate `passage`
- **2026-01-16** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-05** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-22** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-05** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2026-02-05** passed House `passage`
- **2026-02-05** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance 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/db598d51-c35d-46fa-b98e-22af726aec37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).