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Judiciary Committee, New Mexico State Senate

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The Judiciary Committee is a standing committee of the New Mexico Senate.

Per Section 9.1 of the Senate Rules, committees of the New Mexico State Senate are appointed by the Committees' Committee.[1] The rules do not specify when or how often committees are assigned. The Committees' Committee will assign the chair, vice-chair, and the ranking member of each standing committee.[2] All appointments made by the Committees' Committee are subject to the approval of the Senate.[3]

DocumentIcon.jpg See rules: Senate Rules

Function

“ The judiciary committee shall examine all bills, resolutions and memorials which are required to be enrolled and engrossed before they go out of the possession of the senate and report when it finds each to be correctly enrolled and engrossed.[4][5] ”

Membership

2025-2026 legislative session

Senate Judiciary Committee, 2025-2026
Democratic members (6) Republican members (3) Third-party members(0)

2023-2024 legislative session

Senate Judiciary Committee, 2023-2024
Democratic members (6) Republican members (3) Third-party members(0)

2021-2022 legislative session

Senate Judiciary Committee, 2021-2022
Democratic members (6) Republican members (3) Third-party members(0)

2019-2020 legislative session

Senate Judiciary Committee, 2019-2020
Democratic members (7) Republican members (4) Third-party members(0)

2017 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.

Judiciary Members, 2017
Democratic members (6)Republican members (4)
• Richard Martinez, Chair• Gregory A. Baca
• Daniel Ivey-Soto, Vice chair• Ron Griggs
• Jacob Candelaria• Mark Moores
• Linda Lopez, New Mexico Senator• William Payne
• Cisco McSorley
• Peter Wirth

2015 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

2013-2014

2011-2012

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Rules," accessed March 1, 2021(Section 9.1)
  2. ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Rules," accessed March 1, 2021(Section 9.1.2)
  3. ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Rules," accessed March 1, 2021(Section 9.1.3)
  4. ↑ New Mexico Legislature, "Senate Rules," accessed March 1, 2021(Section 9.9.1)
  5. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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Majority Leader:Peter Wirth
Minority Leader:William Sharer
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Pat Woods (R)
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