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2025 New Mexico legislative session
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| 2025 New Mexico legislative session |
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| General information |
| Scheduled session start: January 21, 2025 Scheduled session end: March 22, 2025 |
| Leadership |
| Senate President Howie Morales (D) House Speaker |
| Elections |
| Next Election: November 3, 2026 Last Election: November 5, 2024 |
| Previous legislative sessions |
| 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 |
| Other 2025 legislative sessions |
In 2025, the New Mexico State Legislature was scheduled to convene on January 21 and adjourn on March 22.
The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won a 26-16 majority in the Senate and a 44-26 majority in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Democratic state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, New Mexico was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.
Leadership in 2025
New Mexico State Senate
- Senate president: Howie Morales (D)
- Majority leader: Peter Wirth (D)
- Minority leader: William Sharer (R)
New Mexico House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House: Javier I. Martínez (D)
- Majority leader: Reena Szczepanski (D)
- Minority leader: Gail Armstrong (R)
Partisan control in 2025
- See also: State government trifectas
New Mexico was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.
New Mexico was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.
The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the New Mexico State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.
New Mexico State Senate
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 26 | |
| Republican Party | 16 | |
| Total | 42 | |
New Mexico House of Representatives
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 44 | |
| Republican Party | 26 | |
| Total | 70 | |
Regular session
The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.
Legislation trackers
- See also: Legislation Trackers
Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:
Standing legislative committees
A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 23 standing committees in New Mexico's state government, including nine state Senate committees and 14 state House committees.
Senate committees
- Committees' Committee
- Conservation Committee
- Finance Committee
- Health & Public Affairs Committee
- Indian, Rural & Cultural Affairs Committee
- Rules Committee
- Senate Education Committee
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Tax, Business & Transportation Committee
House committees
- Agriculture & Water Resources Committee
- Appropriations and Finance Committee
- Commerce & Economic Development Committee
- Consumer & Public Affairs Committee
- Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee
- Health & Human Services Committee
- House Education Committee
- House Judiciary Committee
- Labor, Veterans' And Military Affairs Committee
- Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee
- Rules and Order of Business Committee
- State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee
- Taxation & Revenue Committee
- Transportation, Public Works & Capital Improvements Committee
Legislatively referred constitutional amendments
In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.
The methods by which the New Mexico Constitution can be amended:
The New Mexico Constitution provides two mechanisms for amending the state's constitution—a legislative process and a state constitutional convention.
Legislature
A simple majority vote is required during one legislative session for the New Mexico State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 36 votes in the New Mexico House of Representatives and 22 votes in the New Mexico State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
Convention
A two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session of the state legislature to place a constitutional convention question on the ballot. A convention is held if the question receives a simple majority of the vote. Voters must also ratify amendments proposed by the convention.
Historical partisan control
The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of New Mexico.
New Mexico Party Control: 1992-2025
Eighteen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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| Governor | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Historical Senate control
Democrats won control of the New Mexico State Senate in 1988. In 2024, they won a 26-16 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the New Mexico Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
New Mexico State Senate election results: 1992-2024
| Party | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 |
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| Democrats | 27 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 26 |
| Republicans | 15 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 16 |
Historical House control
Democrats won control of the New Mexico House of Representatives in 2016. In 2024, they won a 43-26 majority with one vacancy.
The table below shows the partisan history of the New Mexico House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
New Mexico House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 52 | 46 | 42 | 40 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 45 | 37 | 38 | 33 | 38 | 46 | 44 | 45 | 43 |
| Republicans | 18 | 24 | 28 | 30 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 25 | 33 | 32 | 37 | 32 | 24 | 25 | 25 | 26 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Analysis
Adopted legislation, 2014-2024
In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.
See also
| Elections | New Mexico State Government | State Legislatures | State Politics |
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Footnotes
