---
type: "Bill"
title: "EARLY CHILDHOOD ED & CARE FUND TRANSFERS"
description: "EARLY CHILDHOOD ED & CARE FUND TRANSFERS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "New Mexico HB 71 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "EDUCATION", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gallegos, Doreen Y.", "Johnson, D. Wonda"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/664af937-8860-430c-a4b7-8af899b61896"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=71&year=25"
source_hash: "a46551a54dbbe3f89d7b9a5b5bf8ef2b2c63a9b15ee2632292d3639a85c2e948"
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 71 (2025) — EARLY CHILDHOOD ED & CARE FUND TRANSFERS

## 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/HB0071.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0071.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0071.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **66–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gallegos, Doreen Y. — primary (person)
- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-13** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-12** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-22** House concurred 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/664af937-8860-430c-a4b7-8af899b61896`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).