---
type: "Bill"
title: "TRIBAL REGALIA AT SCHOOL EVENTS"
description: "TRIBAL REGALIA AT SCHOOL EVENTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 163"
citation: "New Mexico SB 163 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abeyta, Michelle Paulene", "Charley, Angel M.", "Johnson, D. Wonda", "Nava, Cindy", "Shendo, Benny, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/400498b7-f998-4473-91cc-79f590f1b7d5"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=163&year=25"
source_hash: "1b8fde9afe5a9421a1391f2b66eb8de7b4df5df59ed68fb5a7544a8bdcc9670b"
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 163 (2025) — TRIBAL REGALIA AT SCHOOL EVENTS

## 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/SB0163.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0163.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0163.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **63–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Abeyta, Michelle Paulene — primary (person)
- Charley, Angel M. — primary (person)
- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)
- Nava, Cindy — primary (person)
- Shendo, Benny, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee & Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-17** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Sent to House Education Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-01** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/400498b7-f998-4473-91cc-79f590f1b7d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).