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+type: "Bill"
+title: "PUBLIC EDUCATION CHANGES"
+description: "PUBLIC EDUCATION CHANGES"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
+legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 253"
+citation: "New Mexico HB 253 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Garratt, Joy", "Herrera, Susan K.", "Soules, William P."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 12
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-01-30"
+last_action: "2026-02-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21ec213e-68b5-4a09-958f-d020288ef1b9"
+source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=253&year=26"
+source_hash: "b467512c74729a836be7b700e700d8ae39e9997ad33a29ea82a5badd44728dd2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nm"]
+---
+
+# New Mexico HB 253 (2026) — PUBLIC EDUCATION CHANGES
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0253.pdf)
+2. **EC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0253ECS.HTML)
+3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/HB0253.PDF)
+4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0253.HTML)
+
+## Votes
+
+- senate passage — **26–15** (pass) · upper
+- house passage — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- senate passage — **26–15** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
+- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
+- Soules, William P. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-18** motion to reconsider adopted
+- **2026-02-18** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
+- **2026-02-18** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-19** House concurred in Senate amendments
+- **2026-02-18** passed Senate `passage`
+- **2026-02-09** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
+- **2026-02-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-02-14** passed House `passage`
+- **2026-02-15** Sent to Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-16** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2026-01-30** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-25** Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/21ec213e-68b5-4a09-958f-d020288ef1b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).
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