New Mexico is quietly launching one of the best AI transparency bills of 2025
New Mexico’s HB 60 improves on Colorado’s 2024 AI Act.
One of the most promising AI bills of 2025 is emerging with little media fanfare right now in New Mexico.
The New Mexico Artificial Intelligence Act (HB 60) authored by Rep. Christine Chandler (D-Los Alamos) is a strengthened and improved version of the Colorado AI Act adopted in Denver last year.
HB 60 is modeled focuses on protecting consumers from the negative impacts of high-risk AI systems. The bill requires documentation, disclosure, and transparency from AI developers, and includes enforcement measures that may be undertaken by the state attorney general or by private individuals.
The bill would require AI developers to:
Use “reasonable care” to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination
Disclose potential risks of using the AI system
Report credible incidents of algorithmic discrimination to the New Mexico Department of Justice
Conduct impact assessments for AI systems
The bill would apply to developers of “high-risk AI systems,” which are defined as systems making consequential decisions in areas like education, employment, financial services, healthcare, housing, insurance, and legal services.
The bill is co-sponsored by Rep. Andrea Romero, Rep. Debra M. Sariñana, and Rep.
Linda M. Trujillo.
A full legislative bill analysis of HB 60 is available here.
“This is not a ‘message’ bill,” says Rep. Christine Chandler (D-Los Alamos). “This is an issue that impacts people.”
AI disclosure and right to human appeal are key
Under the bill’s language, AI system deployers would be required to inform users that they are interacting with an AI system, and if a consequential decision was or will be made by an AI system. The bill also requires AI deployers to provide the consumer the right to appeal any such decisions with an actual human.
The New Mexico Attorney General would be empowered to enforce these measures, and individuals would be able to sue for harm (also known as a private right of action). The bill also provides deployers and developers with a “right to cure”—in other words, the AI deployer or developer would have the opportunity to correct an issue prior to further legal proceedings.
‘A bill that impacts people’
“This is not what some people refer to as a message bill,” Chandler told The Daily Lobo last month. “It's a bill that impacts people, and as a result, I'm dedicated to trying to make sure it moves forward.”
TCAI in Santa Fe giving expert testimony
Steve Wimmer, TCAI’s technical and policy advisor, was in Santa Fe last week to meet with lawmakers and share his expertise with members of the House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee and the House Judicial Committee.
Wimmer testified before the Public Affairs Committee last week alongside Rep. Chandler and Cris Moore, computer science professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
At the conclusion of that hearing the committee approved the bill, 5-1. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the bill soon.