---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGHER ED. PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN TESTS"
description: "HIGHER ED. PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN TESTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "New Mexico HB 167 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garratt, Joy", "Tobiassen, Nicole", "Torres-Velásquez, E. Diane"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38721961-017c-440b-86a5-ccae9be44ba6"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=167&year=25"
source_hash: "4fce39cf98477c462a708ede19df02ad905dd3f63d7f600ab86a1cdf80e26bcd"
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 167 (2025) — HIGHER ED. PAYMENT FOR CERTAIN TESTS

## 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/HB0167.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0167.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0167.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **59–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Tobiassen, Nicole — primary (person)
- Torres-Velásquez, E. Diane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-22** senate has receded its amendments
- **2025-03-21** House failed to concur in Senate amendments
- **2025-03-20** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38721961-017c-440b-86a5-ccae9be44ba6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).