---
type: "Bill"
title: "STUDY CAPPING ABANDONED WATER WELLS"
description: "STUDY CAPPING ABANDONED WATER WELLS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HM 59"
citation: "New Mexico HM 59 (2023)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown, Cathrynn N."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-20"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faa5d48a-50dc-4fd4-845c-a819b7c6f275"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=59&year=23"
source_hash: "44292450d1477fc7198de6a54302630cfd4cae02b539d7b07e9b8824155fc4b8"
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 HM 59 (2023) — STUDY CAPPING ABANDONED WATER WELLS

## 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/23%20Regular/final/HM059.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/23%20Regular/memorials/house/HM059.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Brown, Cathrynn N. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-28** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-20** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-14** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-12** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/faa5d48a-50dc-4fd4-845c-a819b7c6f275`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).