---
type: "Bill"
title: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING FUND"
description: "LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 18"
citation: "New Mexico SB 18 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candelaria, Jacob R.", "Salazar, Tomás E."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-12-17"
last_action: "2019-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c73a4e1-a3ac-4d88-80d1-f1e910f9088f"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=18&year=19"
source_hash: "98321fea115cea3f478b217120e2c0aaf871bdfc81b7937de6072871073b0e6e"
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 18 (2019) — LOCAL GOVERNMENT PLANNING FUND

## 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/SB0018.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0018.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Candelaria, Jacob R. — primary (person)
- Salazar, Tomás E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-17** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-24** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Sent to House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-31** passed House `passage`
- **2019-02-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c73a4e1-a3ac-4d88-80d1-f1e910f9088f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).