---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER PROJECT FUND AUTHORIZATION"
description: "WATER PROJECT FUND AUTHORIZATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 19"
citation: "New Mexico SB 19 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Candelaria, Jacob R.", "Cervantes, Joseph", "Salazar, Tomás E."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-12-17"
last_action: "2020-03-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/463128d4-7c07-455e-8bb7-0958e592aca2"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=19&year=20"
source_hash: "4910af54123666fc1d72141f8f687786623cbfdb6bd2596c636cc71d301029c0"
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 19 (2020) — WATER PROJECT FUND AUTHORIZATION

## 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/20%20Regular/final/SB0019.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/20%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0019.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Candelaria, Jacob R. — primary (person)
- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)
- Salazar, Tomás E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-03-06** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2019-12-17** Sent to Senate Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** germane
- **2020-01-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-08** passed Senate `passage`
- **2020-02-10** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/463128d4-7c07-455e-8bb7-0958e592aca2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).