---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOTTERY & OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP CHANGES"
description: "LOTTERY & OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 239"
citation: "New Mexico SB 239 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY", "GAMING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hemphill, Siah Correa", "Muñoz, George K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2656cc6e-1c80-47da-a15a-ee702459c6ad"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=239&year=24"
source_hash: "f309c7024ac827ebd283bc8f21a0a261f07d1a7933af4ba51141070d9044fb5c"
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 239 (2024) — LOTTERY & OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP 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/SB0239.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0239.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0239.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **30–5** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **61–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hemphill, Siah Correa — primary (person)
- Muñoz, George K. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** passed House `passage`
- **2024-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-01-30** germane
- **2024-02-12** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-10** Sent to House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-15** Senate concurred in House amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2656cc6e-1c80-47da-a15a-ee702459c6ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).