---
type: "Bill"
title: "BROADBAND FOR EDUCATION"
description: "BROADBAND FOR EDUCATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 401"
citation: "New Mexico SB 401 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garratt, Joy", "Lujan, Tara L.", "Padilla, Michael", "Sariñana, Debra M.", "Tobiassen, Nicole"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b9d74ae-80e9-4e55-8ad3-269b457c198f"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=401&year=25"
source_hash: "a5db6393783a5a049f5a5d377780ae2c6bd148951699c80da43ceeab52ab5875"
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 401 (2025) — BROADBAND FOR EDUCATION

## 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/SB0401.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0401.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0401.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **57–7** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **23–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Lujan, Tara L. — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)
- Sariñana, Debra M. — primary (person)
- Tobiassen, Nicole — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** 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/5b9d74ae-80e9-4e55-8ad3-269b457c198f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).