---
type: "Bill"
title: "COMMUNITY SCHOOL, EARLY CHILDHOOD & PRE-K"
description: "COMMUNITY SCHOOL, EARLY CHILDHOOD & PRE-K"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 589"
citation: "New Mexico HB 589 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "CHILDREN & FAMILIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garratt, Joy", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia", "Sariñana, Debra M.", "Thomson, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Trujillo, Christine"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d64671b3-8393-447d-9296-326b38181d1b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=589&year=19"
source_hash: "bfd8fefde17b21ba18cbfcfb98d0e3d0c3a46eefc8114308c7ed393c98d1e0af"
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 589 (2019) — COMMUNITY SCHOOL, EARLY CHILDHOOD & PRE-K

## 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/HB0589.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0589.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0589.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)
- Sariñana, Debra M. — primary (person)
- Thomson, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Trujillo, Christine — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-09** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-10** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-15** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-03-16** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d64671b3-8393-447d-9296-326b38181d1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).