---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"ASIAN AMERICAN DAY\""
description: "\"ASIAN AMERICAN DAY\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HM 8"
citation: "New Mexico HM 8 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Akhil, Abbas", "Garratt, Joy", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Stansbury, Melanie A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-01-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63a01e23-975f-40f0-b701-8746164dbdfa"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=8&year=19"
source_hash: "37dbe1bc5b8aac85caefee310a8e0fc2bacd5c9e00318cc9a295ca2b44810d0b"
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 HM 8 (2019) — "ASIAN AMERICAN DAY"

## 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/19%20Regular/final/HM008.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/house/HM008.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Akhil, Abbas — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Stansbury, Melanie A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** not printed, not referred to committee, tabled
- **2019-01-17** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-01-17** passed House `passage`
- **2019-01-24** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63a01e23-975f-40f0-b701-8746164dbdfa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).