---
type: "Bill"
title: "OFFICIAL STATE AROMA"
description: "OFFICIAL STATE AROMA"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "New Mexico SB 188 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "MISCELLANEOUS", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-23"
last_action: "2023-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61b68839-b654-4c24-b047-841b8e2b01a7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=188&year=23"
source_hash: "bc42a998556b0f7eb64a7f1d2653d1599b4973bdcc8339089c575bfdb683410c"
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 188 (2023) — OFFICIAL STATE AROMA

## 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/23%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0188.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/SB0188.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0188.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-23** Sent to Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee & Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-25** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Sent to House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-17** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-18** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2023-03-11** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-28** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61b68839-b654-4c24-b047-841b8e2b01a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).