---
type: "Bill"
title: "AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN WATER PROJECTS"
description: "AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN WATER PROJECTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "New Mexico SB 17 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ingle, Stuart"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-01-18"
last_action: "2022-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69c40f62-a403-4f11-8927-520fb64c1853"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=17&year=22"
source_hash: "2e884f69d82e6cd1c6fb544443462ca0a5f1aef81b2d8e873038dea2c5769b38"
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 17 (2022) — AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN 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/22%20Regular/final/SB0017.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0017.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ingle, Stuart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-18** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** germane
- **2022-03-02** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-01** passed Senate `passage`
- **2022-01-25** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-01** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** passed House `passage`
- **2022-01-31** 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/69c40f62-a403-4f11-8927-520fb64c1853`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).