---
type: "Bill"
title: "ACEQUIA & COMMUNITY DITCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUND"
description: "ACEQUIA & COMMUNITY DITCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 438"
citation: "New Mexico SB 438 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)", "FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campos, Pete", "Cisneros, Carlos R."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-02-01"
last_action: "2019-04-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0515ba6-f4ef-44e8-9fbb-5986198417ff"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=438&year=19"
source_hash: "1fd1a9b6d01b7b4f85b01603ad19c66944518f0f301bc710bea1827f9726504f"
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 SB 438 (2019) — ACEQUIA & COMMUNITY DITCH INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

## 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/SB0438.pdf)
2. **CO substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0438COS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/final/SB0438.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/19%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0438.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Campos, Pete — primary (person)
- Cisneros, Carlos R. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-01** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2019-02-28** passed Senate `passage`
- **2019-03-01** Sent to House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-13** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0515ba6-f4ef-44e8-9fbb-5986198417ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).