---
type: "Bill"
title: "CAPITAL OUTLAY CHANGES"
description: "CAPITAL OUTLAY CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 253"
citation: "New Mexico HB 253 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lente, Derrick J.", "Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdb03d00-53d6-4c12-82f1-23b3f9f968e4"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=253&year=24"
source_hash: "423495712b67d325d45a07006d67838b2f27ae583357997cba4f18c45754d11c"
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 HB 253 (2024) — CAPITAL OUTLAY 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/24%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0253.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/HB0253.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/house/HB0253.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **63–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lente, Derrick J. — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Sent to House Taxation & Revenue Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** passed House `passage`
- **2024-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-06** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-14** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdb03d00-53d6-4c12-82f1-23b3f9f968e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).