---
type: "Bill"
title: "MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION TASK FORCE"
description: "MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION TASK FORCE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HM 72"
citation: "New Mexico HM 72 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maestas, Antonio", "Martínez, Javier", "Rubio, Angelica", "Salazar, Tomás E.", "Stapleton, Sheryl Williams"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ae9b529-75dc-4245-9d59-ecab978ead0e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=72&year=19"
source_hash: "8cedd1e4f14331784cdb25d89830464997d5fdd1f47973ad685dc9dad944f07c"
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 HM 72 (2019) — MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION TASK FORCE

## 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/19%20Regular/final/HM072.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/house/HM072.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Maestas, Antonio — primary (person)
- Martínez, Javier — primary (person)
- Rubio, Angelica — primary (person)
- Salazar, Tomás E. — primary (person)
- Stapleton, Sheryl Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** Sent to House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ae9b529-75dc-4245-9d59-ecab978ead0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).