---
type: "Bill"
title: "INDIAN FAMILY PROTECTION ACT"
description: "INDIAN FAMILY PROTECTION ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 135"
citation: "New Mexico HB 135 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILDREN & FAMILIES", "NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cadena, Micaela Lara", "Ivey-Soto, Daniel A.", "Louis, Georgene"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3359552-5547-4826-8579-01d7910131ea"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=135&year=22"
source_hash: "5de4ebf29c72e513f71f2b50692febfa06e3c4bdf59c342cbf086148f5ded1eb"
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 HB 135 (2022) — INDIAN FAMILY PROTECTION ACT

## 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/22%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0135.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/HB0135.PDF)
3. **HC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/house/HB0135HCS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/house/HB0135.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cadena, Micaela Lara — primary (person)
- Ivey-Soto, Daniel A. — primary (person)
- Louis, Georgene — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-05** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-07** Sent to Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** not printed House Rules and Order of Business Committee
- **2022-02-01** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2022-02-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-01-25** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2022-01-25** germane & printed
- **2022-01-25** referred to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-16** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2022-02-13** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f3359552-5547-4826-8579-01d7910131ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).