---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER EDUCATION TRUST FUND"
description: "HIGHER EDUCATION TRUST FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 159"
citation: "New Mexico SB 159 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campos, Pete"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/325dd40d-b6fc-4cb6-ab40-5c17e9453d88"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=159&year=24"
source_hash: "9c973365c1d03e3c032b3db1deaf1d65781cac3d067a87bb02ad34d34303fdd9"
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 159 (2024) — HIGHER EDUCATION TRUST FUND

## 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/SB0159.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0159.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0159.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **43–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Campos, Pete — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** germane
- **2024-02-12** passed House `passage`
- **2024-01-31** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2024-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-05** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/325dd40d-b6fc-4cb6-ab40-5c17e9453d88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).