republic-os/legislation/us/states/nm/2025/sb-16.md

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Bill	NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS	NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS	us/states/nm	New Mexico Legislature	2025	SB 16	New Mexico SB 16 (2025)	bill	ELECTIONS	enacted	Cates, Kathleen Figueroa, Natalie Parajón, Cristina Rubio, Angelica Wirth, Peter	3	9	2	2025-01-21	2025-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/904a5802-d2b9-4141-bfbd-7069b0474637	http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=16&year=25	628950649148ef9a3c086471e0de09aca5848e9be234223413bba6958900395a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nm

New Mexico SB 16 (2025) — NON-MAJOR PARTY VOTERS IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS

Version chain

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

1. Amendments in Context (committee substitute) — source
2. Final Version (committee substitute) — source
3. introduced version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• house passage — 36–33 (pass) · lower
• senate passage — 27–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
• Figueroa, Natalie — primary (person)
• Parajón, Cristina — primary (person)
• Rubio, Angelica — primary (person)
• Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-01-21 Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-02-18 DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-19 passed Senate passage
• 2025-02-21 Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee introduction, referral-committee
• 2025-03-03 DO PASS committee report adopted committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Signed executive-signature
• 2025-03-21 passed House passage
• 2025-03-20 DO PASS committee report adopted committee-passage-favorable

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/904a5802-d2b9-4141-bfbd-7069b0474637. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).