---
type: "Bill"
title: "EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN"
description: "EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 146"
citation: "New Mexico SB 146 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pope, Harold", "Sariñana, Debra M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e749094-e57c-45bc-97a7-6f95bf85c8a0"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=146&year=25"
source_hash: "716d0de37ebaa1b8f919c33d24e07adfb7be871f087bcc9b63d1cb478a066ba5"
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 146 (2025) — EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

## 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/SB0146.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0146.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pope, Harold — primary (person)
- Sariñana, Debra M. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Sent to House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-21** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e749094-e57c-45bc-97a7-6f95bf85c8a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).