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2025 NM Legislative Session
This category will house articles relating to the 2025 NM Legislative Session.
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today vetoed 16 bills from the 2025 legislative session.
The vetoed bills include:
HB 014: Earned Income Tax Credit (Tax Package)
HB 036: Board of Optometry Powers and Duties
HB 077: Annual Federal SNAP State Outreach Plans
HB 120: Accessibility of State Agencies
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today signed 22 bills into law, addressing a wide range of priorities including education, environmental protection, healthcare access, utility regulation, public finance accountability, and disaster relief.
A complete list of bills signed by the governor today is below.
Education improvements:
HB 156: Increase Educational Salaries
HB 157: New School Licenses
HB 195: School Nurse Salary Tiers & Minimums
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today signed 10 bills addressing a wide range of issues including worker protections, education, public safety, economic development, and community support.
A complete list of bills signed by the governor today is below.
Economic development and worker protections:
HB 006: IRB Project Minimum Wage
HB 020: Technology & Innovation Division
SB 059: Public Works Minimum Wage Definitions
Education and student safety:
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
Contacts:
Rachel Conn, Amigos Bravos, 575-770-8327,
Tricia Snyder, NM Wild, 575-636-0625,
Tannis Fox, Western Environmental Law Center, 505-629-0732,
Today, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed SB 21, now a law to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95% of New Mexico's streams and up to 88% of New Mexico's wetlands have lost protection once provided under the Clean Water Act. Because of these rollbacks and the lack of a state water quality permitting system at the time, American Rivers named all New Mexico rivers atop its list of the most endangered rivers in the country in its 2024 Most Endangered Rivers report.
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today signed 41 bills into law, addressing a wide range of priorities including healthcare access, economic development, education, environmental protection, and public safety.
The legislation represents the administration's ongoing commitment to improving the quality of life for New Mexicans across the state.
A complete list of bills signed by the governor is below:
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today signed 60 bills into law, addressing a wide range of priorities including healthcare access, public safety, economic development, elections and education.
Legislation Lujan Grisham signed today will:
- Strengthen public safety through measures like the Turquoise Alert System (SB 41) and enhance DNA collection for certain offenders (HB 340).
- Support economic development through the Strategic Economic Development Site Readiness program (SB 169)
- Expand educational opportunities with the Community School Fund & Framework (SB 387), Public Education Reform Fund Uses (SB 201), and Broadband for Education (SB 401).
- Enhance healthcare access by ensuring coverage for diabetic foot ulcer equipment (HB 233) and improving pharmacy reimbursement plans (HB 174).
- Protect natural resources under the Wildfire Prepared Act (SB 33).
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE –
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed two pieces of legislation on Friday, March 28, addressing municipal flood recovery and emergency medical services funding.
Senate Bill 383, which contains an emergency clause making it effective immediately, allows municipalities to issue flood recovery revenue bonds to rebuild, repair, replace and harden municipal property damaged by floods. The legislation creates a municipal flood recovery gross receipts tax to finance these bonds.
- Category: 2025 NM Legislative Session
SANTA FE, MARCH 22—The First Session of the 57th Legislature has ended, and sine die has been declared. Despite holding the minority in both chambers of the state legislature, Republicans held the line for New Mexicans against a wave of bad bills.
"First and foremost, I want to thank everyone for their hard work, countless hours and time spent away from family during this session," said Republican Party of New Mexico (RPNM) Chairwoman Amy Barela. "Republicans in the legislature stood strong, stopping the biggest tax increase in state history and attacks on Second Amendment rights. Democrats ignored New Mexicans' top concern—crime—killing common-sense Republican bills while pushing to reward violent juvenile offenders with thousands of tax dollars instead of jail time.
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