---
type: "Bill"
title: "PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE"
description: "PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 525"
citation: "New Mexico HB 525 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ezzell, Candy Spence", "Herrera, Susan K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07157dc8-9783-4e4b-89a9-9b19f3e9de4c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=525&year=23"
source_hash: "3f2096ec32def283658b51235d6b24ce8dc037d047e49cef3997d4c4467cff8b"
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 525 (2023) — PUBLIC PEACE, HEALTH, SAFETY & WELFARE

## Version chain

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

1. **AA substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0525AAS.HTML)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/final/HB0525.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/bills/house/HB0525.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Ezzell, Candy Spence — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** not printed House Rules and Order of Business Committee
- **2023-03-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-10** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-15** passed Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-10** passed House `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-04** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2023-03-04** referred to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-30** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07157dc8-9783-4e4b-89a9-9b19f3e9de4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).