SANTA FE, N.M. — Certain New Mexico foster children will be able to attend college in the state without paying tuition and fees under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Susana Martinez.

The new law will grant a tuition waiver at New Mexico’s public colleges or universities for some high school graduates who were in the state’s foster care system or in the legal custody of an American Indian tribe. Among those potentially eligible would be youth in foster care when they become age 18 and those who were adopted after turning 14.