New Mexico alcohol laws

What it would do: Creates a board of directors for the African American Performing Arts Center administratively attached to the Cultural Affairs Department, transfers the center's operations, personnel, appropriations, and property from the State Fair Commission to the board, and requires the board to operate, maintain, and staff the center in consultation with the Cultural Affairs Department.

What it would do: Bans receipt, possession, advertising, marketing or sale of semi-synthetic and synthetic cannabinoids in New Mexico. Requires the environmental improvement board to adopt rules regulating hemp extracts and hemp finished products at retail, with hemp finished products limited to three-tenths percent THC or federal limit, whichever is greater.

What it would do: Creates a liquor excise surtax of six percent on retailers effective July 1, 2026, and establishes a tribal alcohol harms alleviation fund and program. Renames the local DWI grant program to local alcohol harms alleviation program and changes its funding distribution formula.

What it would do: Allows persons at least eighteen years of age to deliver and stock packaged alcoholic beverages at licensed premises and for wholesalers, removing the prior requirement that such persons be licensed under the Commercial Driver's License Act.

What it would do: Creates a restaurant C license for beer and wine only, removes the three-drink limit for restaurant B licensees, allows restaurant A license holders to obtain spirituous liquor permits without a twelve-month good standing requirement, establishes local entertainment zones with local alcohol regulations, and adjusts license fees.

What it would do: Creates a liquor excise surtax of three percent on retailers beginning July 1, 2027, and distributes surtax revenue to a new tribal alcohol harms alleviation fund. Excludes liquor excise taxes from gross receipts tax definition.

What it would do: Repeals the Liquor Excise Tax Act and the Local DWI Grant Program Act effective July 1, 2025, and removes references to liquor excise tax from provisions governing liquor license transfers, renewals, and direct wine shipments.

What it would do: Revises criteria for transferring certain liquor licenses by removing the requirement for local voter approval of statewide transfers and expanding where rural dispenser's, rural retailer's, and rural club licenses may be transferred within counties.

What it would do: Increases liquor excise tax rates on spirituous liquors from $1.60 to $1.92 per liter, beer from $.41 to $.49 per gallon, wine from $.45 to $.54 per liter, fortified wine from $1.50 to $1.80 per liter, and cider from $.41 to $.49 per gallon, effective July 1, 2025.