---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDY SCHOOL SUICIDES & GUN VIOLENCE"
description: "STUDY SCHOOL SUICIDES & GUN VIOLENCE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SM 8"
citation: "New Mexico SM 8 (2018)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION", "PUBLIC SCHOOLS", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steinborn, Jeff"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 6
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f6d8e08-7599-4604-9d6f-1bfa3d66e748"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=8&year=18"
source_hash: "f9bb6d20ca66a983674e0cee8097a6a788415fe62b2c06575ded35cf4e75a58c"
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 SM 8 (2018) — STUDY SCHOOL SUICIDES & GUN VIOLENCE

## 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/18%20Regular/final/SM008.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM008.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **25–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steinborn, Jeff — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-12** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-22** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Education Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-14** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f6d8e08-7599-4604-9d6f-1bfa3d66e748`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).