---
type: "Bill"
title: "FOSTER YOUTH CHANGES"
description: "FOSTER YOUTH CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 168"
citation: "New Mexico SB 168 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)", "DOMESTIC RELATIONS (marriage", "divorce", "custody", "support)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Padilla, Michael"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2020-01-27"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62d1897b-efdc-4d1e-8aa5-bad2704a09c9"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=168&year=20"
source_hash: "10280609eb48575bc843452678b624bf1eda67b7ebd7c5b3fd53e3851b869cd9"
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 168 (2020) — FOSTER YOUTH CHANGES

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0168.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/final/SB0168.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0168JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0168.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2020-01-27** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** germane
- **2020-02-15** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-16** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2020-02-17** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2020-02-17** passed Senate `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62d1897b-efdc-4d1e-8aa5-bad2704a09c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).