---
type: "Bill"
title: "BLACK EDUCATION ACT"
description: "BLACK EDUCATION ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "New Mexico HB 43 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pope, Jr., Harold", "Stapleton, Sheryl Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c13aee2-817a-4fe6-9cd6-f10c1bdd6733"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=43&year=21"
source_hash: "da656c7cc9b2bf70951048c1fe88b196dce422ce9a5a9be0241f4112e7d50668"
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 43 (2021) — BLACK EDUCATION ACT

## 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/HB0043.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/HB0043.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/house/HB0043.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Pope, Jr., Harold — primary (person)
- Stapleton, Sheryl Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-07** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-19** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-26** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Sent to Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-13** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2021-03-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-16** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2021-04-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1c13aee2-817a-4fe6-9cd6-f10c1bdd6733`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).