---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING CHANGES"
description: "PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "New Mexico SB 131 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt, Craig W.", "Hemphill, Siah Correa", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b734d58b-0705-46fb-86b1-d202705abf8c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=131&year=23"
source_hash: "8c8b447d7691e1fea86e9ea6fd0c6570f3ba278a227cc399e7aecff3eff6bb0d"
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 131 (2023) — PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING CHANGES

## 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/SB0131.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0131.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0131.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Brandt, Craig W. — primary (person)
- Hemphill, Siah Correa — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-06** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-17** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b734d58b-0705-46fb-86b1-d202705abf8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).