---
type: "Bill"
title: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2023"
description: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2023"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "New Mexico HB 2 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon, Meredith A.", "Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 8
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2519039-71f8-44e9-b618-054ce5634e0b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=2&year=23"
source_hash: "1d09baa2bafbf8bcb8912b3b857b28681434320c6b8d5a0e2804e9c055210595"
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 2 (2023) — GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2023

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **AF substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002AFS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0002.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Dixon, Meredith A. — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-16** passed House `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-15** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2023-03-12** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-12** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-04-07** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2519039-71f8-44e9-b618-054ce5634e0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).