---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC EDUCATION CHANGES"
description: "PUBLIC EDUCATION CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "New Mexico SB 1 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kernan, Gay G.", "Soules, William P.", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a5e99ef-2ca4-48b7-9779-9bfea3c9fefc"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=1&year=19"
source_hash: "61b16f467719a8139d173fa87c963f5459d3c8b0c09dca9da7dda17046613693"
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 1 (2019) — 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](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0001.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0001.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0001.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Kernan, Gay G. — primary (person)
- Soules, William P. — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-05** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-05** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a5e99ef-2ca4-48b7-9779-9bfea3c9fefc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).