---
type: "Bill"
title: "INCREASE EDUCATIONAL SALARIES"
description: "INCREASE EDUCATIONAL SALARIES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 156"
citation: "New Mexico HB 156 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berghmans, Heather", "Garratt, Joy", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/130ed2d2-a7ae-4007-a11e-669034cb2d4b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=156&year=25"
source_hash: "34f36aecdead0c23d847217fd02fb3d8b035a85844e00342180751138f180858"
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 156 (2025) — INCREASE EDUCATIONAL SALARIES

## 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/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0156.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0156.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0156.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **62–1** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berghmans, Heather — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-22** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/130ed2d2-a7ae-4007-a11e-669034cb2d4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).