---
type: "Bill"
title: "PROTECTION OF HISPANIC EDUCATION"
description: "PROTECTION OF HISPANIC EDUCATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 487"
citation: "New Mexico HB 487 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "POST SECONDARY", "EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gurrola, Yanira", "López, Linda M.", "Mirabal Moya, Tanya", "Roybal Caballero, Patricia", "Torres-Velásquez, E. Diane"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11f8f061-7d14-40ae-a58c-167e1fe59bc8"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=487&year=25"
source_hash: "7003f5d0fd4be66fdab2d0984a8ffac9a24d7bcbe57a6b562902b40765c086c3"
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 487 (2025) — PROTECTION OF HISPANIC EDUCATION

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0487.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0487.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **63–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gurrola, Yanira — primary (person)
- López, Linda M. — primary (person)
- Mirabal Moya, Tanya — primary (person)
- Roybal Caballero, Patricia — primary (person)
- Torres-Velásquez, E. Diane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Sent to House Education Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **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/11f8f061-7d14-40ae-a58c-167e1fe59bc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).