---
type: "Bill"
title: "PAROLE REQUIREMENT CHANGES"
description: "PAROLE REQUIREMENT CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "New Mexico SB 43 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brantley, Crystal", "Chavez, Nicole", "Jaramillo, Leo", "Romero, Andrea"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-21"
last_action: "2026-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88aabd18-2fa9-4fc0-b627-774330a42b06"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=43&year=26"
source_hash: "661376e93aa52a0bca7b8bde2e476c6f4853dbbfb21518a786272e9eba910856"
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 43 (2026) — PAROLE REQUIREMENT CHANGES

## 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/26%20Regular/final/SB0043.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0043.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brantley, Crystal — primary (person)
- Chavez, Nicole — primary (person)
- Jaramillo, Leo — primary (person)
- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-17** passed House `passage`
- **2026-01-21** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-26** germane
- **2026-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-05** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-11** 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/88aabd18-2fa9-4fc0-b627-774330a42b06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).