---
type: "Bill"
title: "TEACHER SALARY RATES CHANGES"
description: "TEACHER SALARY RATES CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 343"
citation: "New Mexico SB 343 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "EMPLOYER & EMPLOYEE (including workers' comp)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2e265c4-6818-47c6-991a-8d316fa952c4"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=343&year=25"
source_hash: "ae0d788658d1a3492ce74c5aacc34a7138948b80fc6612fb675c4d7ff96dc34e"
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 343 (2025) — TEACHER SALARY RATES CHANGES

## 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/SB0343.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0343.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **66–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Sent to House Education Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a2e265c4-6818-47c6-991a-8d316fa952c4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).