---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"FOSTER PARENT DAY\""
description: "\"FOSTER PARENT DAY\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SM 4"
citation: "New Mexico SM 4 (2019)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gould, Candace", "Padilla, Michael"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-12-20"
last_action: "2019-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8405d317-d1e6-4fdc-afa2-d6c096eff543"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=4&year=19"
source_hash: "1b39b692c1c592f1898abae3a7b234aa28cac80025cb3e4ce430b47554dcd30c"
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 4 (2019) — "FOSTER PARENT 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/SM004.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM004.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Gould, Candace — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-20** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** not printed, not referred to committee, tabled
- **2019-03-01** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`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/8405d317-d1e6-4fdc-afa2-d6c096eff543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).