---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION DEPT AUTHORIZATIONS"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION DEPT AUTHORIZATIONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 38"
citation: "New Mexico SB 38 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "EDUCATION", "OTHER", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hemphill, Siah Correa", "Roberto J. Gonzales"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb0a5327-8242-4a85-b971-ceba3f5e6602"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=38&year=22"
source_hash: "841fc307c9c16eda89e591654c620d217172bf1a6f0004ee862aac409f9f9bc2"
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 38 (2022) — EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION DEPT AUTHORIZATIONS

## 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/22%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0038.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/SB0038.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0038.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Hemphill, Siah Correa — primary (person)
- Roberto J. Gonzales — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Education Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** germane
- **2022-03-02** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-08** Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb0a5327-8242-4a85-b971-ceba3f5e6602`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).