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Votes at a glance: bills the House passed March 9, 2025

March 08, 2025 | House of Representatives, Legislative, New Mexico


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Votes at a glance: bills the House passed March 9, 2025
This document summarizes final recorded House votes and brief descriptions of bills that received final action or recorded committee reports during the March 9 House floor session. It lists each bill, a one-line description, recorded House vote (when shown on the transcript), and any immediate implementation notes referenced on the floor.

Votes at a glance (transcript-recorded final actions):

- HB 13 (Power Up New Mexico): Requires distribution system planning and beneficial electrification filings by investor-owned utilities; PRC review and potential cost recovery mechanisms. House final passage 36-23. (See full article for details.)

- House Judiciary Committee substitute for HB 255 (Juvenile reform): Expands supervised release, tolls supervised-release clock for absconders, creates local selection panels and a juvenile community grant fund; pilot stipend for eligible formerly foster/delinquent young adults. Amendment to broaden youthful-offender enumerations tabled 32-27. Final passage 34-24.

- HB 64 (tuition equity for adult immigrant workers): Extends in-state tuition eligibility for certain adult immigrant workers and special immigrant juvenile-status applicants for community-college credit and noncredit career training. Final passage recorded 37-19. Implementation and HED rule details noted by sponsor; agencies said existing verification and residency procedures would apply.

- HB 352 (court reorganization / magistrate closures and relocation): Amends court structure and relocates a circuit court seat; final passage recorded 55-1.

- HB 243 (medical licensure compact): Enacts the interstate medical licensure compact to expand physician availability; final passage recorded 58-0.

- HB 439 (telecommunicator CPR training): Requires 911 telecommunicators be trained to give high-quality CPR instruction; final passage recorded 59-0.

- HB 113 (animal welfare program / infrastructure): Creates a competitive animal-welfare program administered by DFA to fund facility upgrades, enforcement support and community projects; substitute and amendment limited direct payments to private individuals; final passage recorded 58-0.

- HB 471 / HB 571 / HB 494 / HB 428 / HB 553 and others: Several bills and committee substitutes listed on the transcript received favorable committee reports or final passage votes during the session. Selected final-passage tallies recorded on the transcript include: HB 571 (housing communities program) 59-0; HB 494 (disabled-veteran property tax timing) 59-0; several committee substitutes recorded with unanimous or near-unanimous outcomes.

Notes and caveats:
- This summary is limited to items that had final passage votes or explicit committee-report/adoption lines in the transcript provided. It does not list every committee action recorded earlier in the day.
- For bills that create new regulatory responsibilities (for example HB13), implementation requires administrative rulemaking and, in many cases, appropriations or staffing changes noted by members during floor debate; those steps are outside the scope of a floor-vote summary and require follow-up coverage.

Provenance: Each vote and bill reference corresponds to floor readouts and roll-call language recorded in the House transcript on March 9, 2025.

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