---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY CHANGES"
description: "PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "New Mexico SB 82 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "OTHER", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b29e1f3d-7a00-484e-b5bb-470e1ca69a91"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=82&year=25"
source_hash: "bb47dff403dedfd34c8a76ae94af7c6301d52a8f9f8e2064d5aac89f166ca6b4"
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 82 (2025) — PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY CHANGES

## 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/SB0082.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0082.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0082.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **63–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-22** Sent to Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-21** Sent to House Education Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-15** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-16** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2025-03-03** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-21** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b29e1f3d-7a00-484e-b5bb-470e1ca69a91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).