---
type: "Bill"
title: "SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER LICENSES"
description: "SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER LICENSES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 266"
citation: "New Mexico HB 266 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Figueroa, Natalie"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-09"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0abb088-454b-407d-bdb7-1a52b6b3c661"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=266&year=21"
source_hash: "d2f559c27cf9563b12c7ed3969989a9bbddfe7eb947e88977277b01efa09c76a"
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 266 (2021) — SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER LICENSES

## 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/21%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0266.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/HB0266.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/house/HB0266.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Figueroa, Natalie — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-09** Sent to House Education Committee & House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-06** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Sent to Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-20** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c0abb088-454b-407d-bdb7-1a52b6b3c661`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).