Your Guide to the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session: Get Involved with Tewa Women United
This year’s New Mexico Legislative Session runs 30 days, from January 20 to February 19, 2026.
Shorter sessions like this, which run in alternate years, are usually focused on the state budget. This year, though, there are a few important bills that we are paying attention to and we invite your engagement with the process.
To participate in this session, it’s helpful to know your legislators (in both the House and Senate) and how to contact them. Find them here.
Tewa Women United and our community partners are engaging with bills related to our work in environmental, reproductive, and gender justice. This chart is an overview of the bills that we are supporting or following. We will update it as more information becomes available, and we’ll send action alerts on how to advocate or oppose relevant legislation.
BILLS TWU IS SUPPORTING OR FOLLOWING
updated January 27, 2026
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Bills We Support
SB 53 — Community and Health Information Safety and Privacy Act (CHISPA) –
“An act relating to privacy; strengthening privacy protections by enacting the community and health information safety and privacy act; providing definitions; providing duties for covered entities; establishing requirements for service providers; prohibiting certain uses of consumer data; providing rights to consumers; establishing limitations on processing of consumer data; prohibiting waivers of rights and retaliatory denials of service; providing for enforcement and penalties.”
Current Location: Senate Committees Committee
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=53&year=26
HB 9 — Immigrant Safety Act –
“An act relating to public bodies; enacting the immigrant safety act; prohibiting public bodies from entering into agreements used to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations and requiring the termination of any such existing agreements; prohibiting public bodies from otherwise using public property to facilitate detaining individuals for federal civil immigration violations.”
Current Location: Passed 4-2 by House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee.
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=H&LegType=B&LegNo=9&year=26
SB 18 — Clear Horizons & Emissions Codification –
“An act relating to the environment; establishing statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits; requiring greenhouse gas emissions reporting; expanding duties and powers of the environmental improvement board.”
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=18&year=26
SB 66 — Abandoned Uranium Mine Cleanup –
“An act making an appropriation to the Department of Environment to assess and clean up abandoned or neglected contaminated sites, including abandoned uranium mining sites, across the state that do not have viable responsible parties to pay for and conduct cleanup actions.”
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=66&year=26
Sponsors:
Jeff Steinborn
Shannon D. Pinto
Angel M. Charley
Benny Shendo, Jr.
SB 55 — Solar Market Income Tax Credit –
“An act relating to taxation; increasing the amount of the new solar market development income tax credit.”
This bill would increase the amount of the new solar market development income tax credit from 10% to 30%, up to $15,000.
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=55&year=26
SB 41 — Statute of Limitations for Certain Sex Crimes –
“An act relating to crime; eliminating the statute of limitations for certain sexual crimes; making conforming amendments; repealing section 30-1-9.2 nmsa 1978 (being laws 2003, chapter 257, section 1).”
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=41&year=26
Bills We Are Following
SB 40 — Driver Privacy and Safety Act –
An act relating to license plate readers; enacting the driver privacy and safety act; providing limitations on the sharing of automated license plate reader information and requiring reporting; providing for enforcement and penalties.
TWU is following this bill.
https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=40&year=26
SB 39 — Microgrid Oversight Act –
An act relating to utilities; enacting the microgrid oversight act; providing authority for the public regulation commission to regulate microgrids; creating a microgrid renewable portfolio standard; prohibiting rate increases due to public utilities purchasing power from microgrids.
Info page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?Chamber=S&LegType=B&LegNo=39&year=26
Advocacy Day Calendar
Important events during this session related to environmental, reproductive, and gender justice. In some cases, our staff will be tabling at these days. Please plan to come to learn about the issues, network, and get to know us.
- January 26: Bold Futures Reproductive Justice Action Day
- January 26: Immigrant and Worker Day of Action
- February 2: Acequia Day
- February 5: Climate Solutions Day
- February 6: Women’s Health Day of Action / Maternal Health Day
- February 6: American Indian Day
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