---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDY OF CARBON FEE AND DIVIDEND LEGISLATION"
description: "STUDY OF CARBON FEE AND DIVIDEND LEGISLATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SM 23"
citation: "New Mexico SM 23 (2018)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 5
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4d281bf-365b-485c-9923-d1678001049d"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=M&legNo=23&year=18"
source_hash: "a5a9b05a35f713517e775e7019b4ebf8ee26e8863050a33d833fa7bfd7c77956"
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 SM 23 (2018) — STUDY OF CARBON FEE AND DIVIDEND LEGISLATION

## 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/18%20Regular/final/SM023.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/18%20Regular/memorials/senate/SM023.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **21–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-22** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-14** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-13** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4d281bf-365b-485c-9923-d1678001049d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).