---
type: "Bill"
title: "HIGH QUALITY LITERACY INSTRUCTION ACT"
description: "HIGH QUALITY LITERACY INSTRUCTION ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 37"
citation: "New Mexico SB 37 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cullen, Catherine J.", "Garratt, Joy", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-21"
last_action: "2026-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9653c31-58a5-478b-9e3d-4c2fd91532d7"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=37&year=26"
source_hash: "454543ba5c0e5280278b0eee2eeeada356b120aac8a03c7ea8966529801ff048"
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 37 (2026) — HIGH QUALITY LITERACY INSTRUCTION ACT

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0037.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/SB0037.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0037.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cullen, Catherine J. — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-19** passed House `passage`
- **2026-01-21** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Education Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22** germane
- **2026-01-23** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-03** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-01-29** passed Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2026-02-11** DO PASS, as amended, 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/a9653c31-58a5-478b-9e3d-4c2fd91532d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).