---
type: "Bill"
title: "FUNDING OF DEMOLITION OF ABANDONED SCHOOLS"
description: "FUNDING OF DEMOLITION OF ABANDONED SCHOOLS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 43"
citation: "New Mexico SB 43 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99c6b675-29c1-4934-beb6-0f688c285bb0"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=43&year=21"
source_hash: "9ba059804413723b6368ad17fb623749d9f2164fd51ae031be2332ef15e4c0c6"
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 43 (2021) — FUNDING OF DEMOLITION OF ABANDONED SCHOOLS

## 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/21%20Regular/final/SB0043.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0043.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-19** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Sent to House Education Committee & House Taxation & Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-20** passed House `passage`
- **2021-03-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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/99c6b675-29c1-4934-beb6-0f688c285bb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).