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type: "Bill"
title: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT"
description: "CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "New Mexico HB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Borrego, Cynthia", "Cates, Kathleen", "Chandler, Christine", "Garratt, Joy", "Little, Charlotte"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-02-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e67abad8-58c3-4328-b89b-b16f9f36d4ba"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=8&year=25"
source_hash: "336ec6fc1ecd105efd13b623a3e08250229927a845903562d6ed040f801a5ef9"
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 8 (2025) — CRIMINAL COMPETENCY & TREATMENT
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0008.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0008.PDF)
3. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0008JCS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0008.HTML)
## Votes
- senate passage — **383** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **4820** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Borrego, Cynthia — primary (person)
- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Little, Charlotte — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-10** Sent to House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-15** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-13** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-22** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2025-02-17** Sent to Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** floor substitute adopted (2 amendment)
- **2025-02-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Signed `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e67abad8-58c3-4328-b89b-b16f9f36d4ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).