---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER LEASES & USE OF LEASED WATER"
description: "WATER LEASES & USE OF LEASED WATER"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 17"
citation: "New Mexico HB 17 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chandler, Christine", "Wirth, Peter"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fca8e66c-0db0-4db8-be2a-1d9b1f6d5247"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=17&year=19"
source_hash: "8d6222c1f6d5127b3304db56cc1643e8c0baec1183cd253edb15da232cd0614c"
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 17 (2019) — WATER LEASES & USE OF LEASED WATER

## 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/19%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0017.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0017.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0017.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Wirth, Peter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-10** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Sent to House Agriculture & Water Resources Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-14** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fca8e66c-0db0-4db8-be2a-1d9b1f6d5247`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).