---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOL LIBRARY ASSESSMENT"
description: "SCHOOL LIBRARY ASSESSMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SM 27"
citation: "New Mexico SM 27 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f93933e7-18c2-4515-98eb-764344f9c6ed"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=27&year=19"
source_hash: "e6ac0e81f6ab8a0c68cbb31bc31837760e28f84e23d2d5252de37af98e6494f5"
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 SM 27 (2019) — SCHOOL LIBRARY ASSESSMENT

## 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/SM027.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM027.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-04-10** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f93933e7-18c2-4515-98eb-764344f9c6ed`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).