---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT BOARD CHANGES"
description: "EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT BOARD CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 20"
citation: "New Mexico SB 20 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kernan, Gay G."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afee0d66-b81b-49f0-be63-f094c84a7c97"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=20&year=23"
source_hash: "0c688bf6784a8e7e050b4e2cc9cb6d619feba72ec7582e251f97a0a4222c488b"
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 20 (2023) — EDUCATIONAL RETIREMENT BOARD 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/SB0020.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0020.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0020.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Kernan, Gay G. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-25** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-16** passed House `passage`
- **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/afee0d66-b81b-49f0-be63-f094c84a7c97`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).