---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMITMENT PROCEDURE CHANGES & DEFINITIONS"
description: "COMMITMENT PROCEDURE CHANGES & DEFINITIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "New Mexico SB 3 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "HEALTH & HEALTH FACILITIES", "MENTAL HEALTH & DEV. DISABILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brantley, Crystal", "Campos, Pete", "Herndon, Pamelya", "Maestas, Antonio"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-20"
last_action: "2026-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/260e6e24-050d-4545-b59c-d9fd27aba2f1"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=3&year=26"
source_hash: "0fc65eafe8ef9b54f64d751f07607831a73294b232b7180a19438736be259086"
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 3 (2026) — COMMITMENT PROCEDURE CHANGES & DEFINITIONS

## 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/SB0003.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/SB0003.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0003.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **58–10** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **37–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brantley, Crystal — primary (person)
- Campos, Pete — primary (person)
- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)
- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-20** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** germane
- **2026-01-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-23** passed Senate `passage`
- **2026-01-27** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-09** passed House `passage`
- **2026-02-17** special
- **2026-02-05** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-11** special

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/260e6e24-050d-4545-b59c-d9fd27aba2f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).