New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 12th, 2026

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Key Moments

  • George Muñoz — Senator Muñoz argues that people need help and that New Mexico should not be last in child safety.
  • George Muñoz — Recorded as voting yes.
  • George Muñoz — Thanks members for the lively debate and comments on the likely headline and evacuation.
  • George Muñoz — Announces Senate Finance will meet 15 minutes after floor work ends and is wrapping up House Bill 2.
  • George Muñoz — Announces Senate Finance will meet after floor work, wrapping up House Bill 2, and mentions capital-related preparations and a future appearance at the Bill Party.
  • George Muñoz — Credited with helping arrange the Kid Silver performance.
  • Crystal Brantley — Unanimous consent is requested to excuse Senator Brantley from the chamber until she returns, except for a call.
  • Crystal Brantley — Recorded as voting no on the motion.
  • SB241 — The speaker moves to pass the Senate Finance Committee substitute for Senate Bill 241 as amended, and shortly afterward the committee records a 25 to 15 vote confirming that the measure has duly passed.
  • John Block — Recorded as voting no on the motion.
  • Jay Block — Recorded as voting no on the motion.
  • Sarah Silva — Likely the intended 'Senator Berman' is not in the member list; vote line preserved as transcribed with correction limited to obvious errors.
  • Craig Brandt — Recorded as voting no on the motion.
  • Pete Campos — Recorded as voting yes on the motion.
  • Joseph Cervantes — Recorded as voting yes on the motion.
  • Natalie Figueroa — Recorded as voting yes on the motion.
  • Doreen Gallegos — Senator Doreen Gallegos is recorded as voting no on the motion.
  • Martin Hickey — Martin Hickey is recorded as voting yes.
  • Anita Gonzales — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Carrie Hamblen — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Steve Lanier — Recorded as voting no.
  • Linda Trujillo — Linda Trujillo is recorded in a sequence of vote lines: first as voting yes (with one line misattributed to Senator Lopez), then voting no, and later voting yes again.
  • Antonio Maestas — Senator Antonio Maestas is recorded as voting yes.
  • Cindy Nava — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Cindy Nava — Senator Nava announces and promotes the upcoming 100th Bill Party, noting that invitations are being delivered and are available at LCS. He also says the chamber’s women will be recognized at the event and mentions a performance by Kid Silver the Rapper, thanking Senator Munoz for helping arrange it. He closes by expressing excitement to see everyone there tomorrow.
  • Micaelita O'Malley — Noted as excused.
  • Michael Padilla — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Shannon Pinto — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Shannon Pinto — Named as an introducer of Senate Memorial 30.
  • Shannon Pinto — Senator Stephanics announces that the Senate Conservation Committee will meet on Saturday at 9 a.m. and will not meet on Sunday, followed by a brief acknowledgment from the chair.
  • Harold Pope — Recorded as voting yes.
  • William Soules — Recorded as voting yes.
  • William Soules — Announces the Senate Education Committee meeting in Room 311 at 9 a.m. tomorrow and notes unfinished business.
  • Elizabeth Stefanics — Recorded as voting yes.
  • George Muñoz — Senator Munoz is identified as yielding.
  • George Muñoz — Senator Muñoz responds that businesses in the field currently have about $1 million in liability coverage.
  • George Muñoz — Senator Muñoz argues that modern working families often require both partners to work.
  • George Muñoz — Senator Muñoz describes his own family and work situation to illustrate the need for child care.
  • John Woods — Senator Woods is recognized for debate, then speaks twice on the same liability insurance issue, asking whether the state would serve as the backstop for coverage. The presiding officer thanks him after his remarks, recognizes him again for a second time, and then thanks him as debate moves toward closing.
  • John Woods — Recorded as voting no.
  • Jeff Steinborn — Recorded as voting yes.
  • Anthony Thornton — Recorded as voting no.
  • James Townsend — James Townsend is recorded in the vote sequence, with one mention showing him voting no and a later mention appearing to misattribute a yes vote to him (likely intended for Senator Worth).
  • Rex Wilson — Recorded as voting no.
  • Peter Wirth — Peter Wirth is identified as the floor leader who is taking the body to the next order of business, with a follow-up mention addressing him in the same procedural transition.
  • Peter Wirth — Senator Wirth (mis-transcribed as Worth) handles the end-of-day procedural wrap-up: he moves the chamber out of business announcements and miscellaneous business, notes that the Senate will reconvene at 11 o'clock the next day, invites committee chairs to make announcements, and is then called on to close out the day.
  • HB63 — House Bill 63 was presented as a House-passed bill with an emergency clause, described as a finance measure authorizing the New Mexico Finance Authority to make loans or grants from the Water Project Fund for certain water projects, and then read twice by title and referred to the Senate Conservation Committee.
  • HB64 — House Bill 64 is discussed as a House-passed measure introduced by Representative Kates. It makes appropriations from the Public Project Revolving Fund to the Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund, Local Government Planning Fund, and Cultural Affairs Facilities Infrastructure Fund, and it was referred to Senate Finance after transmission to the Senate for concurrence.
  • HB165 — House Bill 165 is introduced as a local government bill by Representative Serrato that clarifies who is responsible for paying special assessments under the Improvement Special Assessment Act, specifying that the assessments are paid by property owners or lessees holding industrial revenue bond leases. The bill is then referred to the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee after being transmitted from the House for concurrence.
  • HB184 — House Bill 184 is presented as a public funds bill concerning the Conservation Legacy Permanent Fund and the Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund, including changes to investment and distribution provisions. The bill is then read twice by title and referred to the Senate Finance Committee.