---
type: "Bill"
title: "MILITARY FAMILY EARLY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT"
description: "MILITARY FAMILY EARLY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 272"
citation: "New Mexico SB 272 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pope, Jr., Harold"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b80346d-9341-485d-8548-88afe4a76fd3"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=272&year=21"
source_hash: "fd951fcfb57564c428172ca49f755ec4a1f07418ddf76a76d84babe7990cf77a"
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 272 (2021) — MILITARY FAMILY EARLY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

## 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/SB0272.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/final/SB0272.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0272.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Pope, Jr., Harold — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-03** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Sent to House Education Committee & House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **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/4b80346d-9341-485d-8548-88afe4a76fd3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).