---
type: "Bill"
title: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2018"
description: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2018"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "New Mexico HB 2 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lundstrom, Patricia A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-03-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/252e1ae1-dca9-4a4e-8c01-e95194f96bd7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=2&year=18"
source_hash: "469c7477979fdbbe7998ae0ded08eb0b3b2d2f99cadac9aaec31fefbccc3e8c0"
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 2 (2018) — GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2018

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **AF substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002AFS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/final/HB0002.pdf)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **40–2** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **65–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lundstrom, Patricia A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Sent to House Appropriations and Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** passed House `passage`
- **2018-01-31** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-14** House report adopted
- **2018-02-14** Senate report adopted
- **2018-02-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2018-02-13** House failed to concur in Senate amendments
- **2018-03-07** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-13** this procedure could follow if the House refuses to recede from its amendments
- **2018-02-13** Sent to Conference Committee `introduction, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/252e1ae1-dca9-4a4e-8c01-e95194f96bd7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).