---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"AMERICAN INDIAN DAY\""
description: "\"AMERICAN INDIAN DAY\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HM 17"
citation: "New Mexico HM 17 (2025)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hernandez, Joseph Franklin", "Johnson, D. Wonda", "Lente, Derrick J.", "Little, Charlotte"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-07"
last_action: "2025-02-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3eda1405-aaec-487c-8863-bda9eedf74db"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=17&year=25"
source_hash: "b498b1bfb5de7e8b32efce9befb00f0d956cb83d61bfb8bc5dcf170e7d61aef4"
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 HM 17 (2025) — "AMERICAN INDIAN 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/25%20Regular/final/HM017.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/memorials/house/HM017.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hernandez, Joseph Franklin — primary (person)
- Johnson, D. Wonda — primary (person)
- Lente, Derrick J. — primary (person)
- Little, Charlotte — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-07** not printed, not referred to committee, tabled
- **2025-02-07** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-02-07** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-12** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3eda1405-aaec-487c-8863-bda9eedf74db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).