---
type: "Bill"
title: "INCREASE TEACHER MINIMUM SALARIES"
description: "INCREASE TEACHER MINIMUM SALARIES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 119"
citation: "New Mexico SB 119 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6333e99a-115f-40fa-ae59-5c3d807a1d4c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=119&year=18"
source_hash: "6690684e7b6e22cabf34c711aa22866ee3484f7cbabbf12157d6c182c30a2590"
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 SB 119 (2018) — INCREASE TEACHER MINIMUM SALARIES

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/final/SB0119.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0119.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-23** germane
- **2018-01-22** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-02-13** Sent to House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** passed House `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6333e99a-115f-40fa-ae59-5c3d807a1d4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).