---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER DATA ACT"
description: "WATER DATA ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 651"
citation: "New Mexico HB 651 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Gail", "Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette", "Stansbury, Melanie A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8f0f0f7-13df-4eb7-bd0b-9ab0490335e6"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=651&year=19"
source_hash: "535bef6f9173d45467d0ae12a0dfd598f277897f90d907f7eb0505bc73baf3c3"
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 651 (2019) — WATER DATA ACT

## 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/HB0651.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/HB0651.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/house/HB0651.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Sedillo Lopez, Antoinette — primary (person)
- Stansbury, Melanie A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-09** passed House `passage`
- **2019-03-10** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-14** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-15** failed passage in Senate `failure`
- **2019-03-15** motion to reconsider adopted
- **2019-03-16** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-16** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c8f0f0f7-13df-4eb7-bd0b-9ab0490335e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).