---
type: "Bill"
title: "SCHOOL BOARD TRAINING"
description: "SCHOOL BOARD TRAINING"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "New Mexico SB 137 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS & COMMISSIONS", "EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P.", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/563c7085-cc56-406a-aa7d-952f4463eb80"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=137&year=24"
source_hash: "c5d40f8c6e497ac266d94077bc369e6aca77cf3d255a0feac2382af3ad2e9492"
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 137 (2024) — SCHOOL BOARD TRAINING

## 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/SB0137.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0137.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0137.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **42–17** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **30–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Rules Committee & Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** germane
- **2024-02-13** passed House `passage`
- **2024-01-31** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Sent to House Education Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/563c7085-cc56-406a-aa7d-952f4463eb80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).