---
type: "Bill"
title: "GROW YOUR OWN TEACHERS ACT"
description: "GROW YOUR OWN TEACHERS ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 20"
citation: "New Mexico HB 20 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garratt, Joy", "Lara, Raymundo", "Padilla, Michael", "Trujillo, Christine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3838953b-9d5e-43c7-ad47-23bbea37a5da"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=20&year=19"
source_hash: "111dda178eff4d9079d1a82219da0b6ac1a37dcc7f4a334c4ee2261057ef698e"
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 20 (2019) — GROW YOUR OWN TEACHERS ACT

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0020.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0020.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0020.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Lara, Raymundo — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)
- Trujillo, Christine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Sent to Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-16** House concurred in Senate amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3838953b-9d5e-43c7-ad47-23bbea37a5da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).