---
type: "Bill"
title: "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR MILITARY CHILDREN"
description: "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR MILITARY CHILDREN"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 120"
citation: "New Mexico SB 120 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pope, Harold"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e9221556-a325-4642-8b25-04896008e481"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=120&year=23"
source_hash: "4692761e0f28fd2989c430b27a799157d9f61c486beab1c9ae0b7f61c2bba6de"
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 120 (2023) — OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

## 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/23%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0120.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0120.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0120.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Pope, Harold — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Sent to House Education Committee & House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-30** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e9221556-a325-4642-8b25-04896008e481`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).