---
type: "Bill"
title: "NMFA WATER PROJECTS"
description: "NMFA WATER PROJECTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "New Mexico SB 137 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cervantes, Joseph", "Dow, Rebecca", "Pope, Jr., Harold"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-31"
last_action: "2021-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75fe649f-3379-4d7a-a658-6f00175786e1"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=137&year=21"
source_hash: "32d99541ad942b406ca2714fb38d8c171034cd5c4ec4bb6f7ef5be7651947b71"
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 137 (2021) — NMFA WATER PROJECTS

## 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/21%20Regular/final/SB0137.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/21%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0137.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Cervantes, Joseph — primary (person)
- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)
- Pope, Jr., Harold — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-31** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** passed Senate `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-14** passed House `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75fe649f-3379-4d7a-a658-6f00175786e1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).