---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAND GRANT-MERCED ASSISTANCE FUND"
description: "LAND GRANT-MERCED ASSISTANCE FUND"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "New Mexico HB 8 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "PROPERTY (conservancy districts", "land grants", "real estate)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Egolf, Brian", "McQueen, Matthew", "Montoya, Roger E.", "Ortez, Kristina", "Romero, Andrea"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-03-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d25556c-2e27-4fd0-9b34-6b24506aacf3"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=8&year=22"
source_hash: "e53f2740b8ab412b0391a2205f3d5486869c09a327ad1dc6b33813090afa2844"
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 8 (2022) — LAND GRANT-MERCED ASSISTANCE 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/22%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0008.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/final/HB0008.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/house/HB0008.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Egolf, Brian — primary (person)
- McQueen, Matthew — primary (person)
- Montoya, Roger E. — primary (person)
- Ortez, Kristina — primary (person)
- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Sent to House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee & House Taxation & Revenue Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-04** passed House `passage`
- **2022-02-04** Sent to Senate Indian, Rural and Cultural Affairs Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-04** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2022-02-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-08** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-31** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-25** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d25556c-2e27-4fd0-9b34-6b24506aacf3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).