---
type: "Bill"
title: "MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN"
description: "MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SM 38"
citation: "New Mexico SM 38 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS", "MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinto, John"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 6
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e5871f6-21ee-4e72-a9fd-0d4c0e891289"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=38&year=19"
source_hash: "528693c53e6e9d87598fe2ee15dbf2d076dda4d1798fb7df365bee8c3a2a46e4"
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 38 (2019) — MISSING & MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN

## 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/SM038.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM038.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Pinto, John — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Indian and Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2019-03-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7e5871f6-21ee-4e72-a9fd-0d4c0e891289`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).