---
type: "Bill"
title: "FIRE PROTECTION FUND"
description: "FIRE PROTECTION FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 256"
citation: "New Mexico SB 256 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burt, William F."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a6d72c92-0c45-455b-b33d-4f778cfb1f1e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=256&year=21"
source_hash: "1b4ad2a8759d7e725b58c09f6aaf79352b7c2ad39ff8369f8c81a262e92251bb"
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 256 (2021) — FIRE PROTECTION FUND

## 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/SB0256.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0256.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0256.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Burt, William F. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-20** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-16** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-07** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a6d72c92-0c45-455b-b33d-4f778cfb1f1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).