---
type: "Bill"
title: "AG OFFICE FOR MISSING INDIGENOUS PERSONS"
description: "AG OFFICE FOR MISSING INDIGENOUS PERSONS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "New Mexico SB 12 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS (judges", "DAs", "public defenders)", "NATIVE AMERICAN AFFAIRS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Herndon, Pamelya", "Lopez, Linda M.", "Pinto, Shannon D."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35b9e0a9-a2a7-4348-9976-c6ac36c7d4a4"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=12&year=22"
source_hash: "4656bdcc19bdc57958fdc1407fd18bbf39b3f8a23240da11477850e23d785583"
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 12 (2022) — AG OFFICE FOR MISSING INDIGENOUS PERSONS

## 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/SB0012.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/SB0012.PDF)
3. **JU substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0012JUS.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0012.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Herndon, Pamelya — primary (person)
- Lopez, Linda M. — primary (person)
- Pinto, Shannon D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2022-02-17** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-14** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-26** germane
- **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/35b9e0a9-a2a7-4348-9976-c6ac36c7d4a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).