---
type: "Bill"
title: "MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN"
description: "MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 278"
citation: "New Mexico HB 278 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS", "CRIMES & PENALTIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, D. Wonda", "Lente, Derrick J.", "Romero, Andrea", "Stansbury, Melanie A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffda0cf3-8b7a-4582-8179-24ac30c537ec"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=278&year=19"
source_hash: "46a46addce1a74965aebc3a510d675f572c763578a41a66415dfbc4e83f7336e"
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 HB 278 (2019) — MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN

## Version chain

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

1. **AF substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0278AFS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0278.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0278.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)
- Lente, Derrick J. — primary (person)
- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)
- Stansbury, Melanie A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Sent to House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-08** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Sent to Senate Indian and Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-12** 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/ffda0cf3-8b7a-4582-8179-24ac30c537ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).