---
type: "Bill"
title: "WATER PROJECT PRIORITIZATION"
description: "WATER PROJECT PRIORITIZATION"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 211"
citation: "New Mexico HB 211 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Castellano, Ambrose", "Cates, Kathleen", "Herrera, Susan K.", "Lara, Raymundo", "Ortez, Kristina"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e1a3f39-169a-4967-9cc9-1075c00365f6"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=211&year=24"
source_hash: "abc3f9ae64befb4c40a5fdede5124b9c20622a2d9829a514cfd4d02875af7a1e"
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 211 (2024) — WATER PROJECT PRIORITIZATION

## 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/24%20Regular/bills/house/HB0211AAS.HTML)
2. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0211.pdf)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/HB0211.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/house/HB0211.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **34–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Castellano, Ambrose — primary (person)
- Cates, Kathleen — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
- Lara, Raymundo — primary (person)
- Ortez, Kristina — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-23** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-10** passed House `passage`
- **2024-02-10** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-14** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2024-02-14** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-14** House concurred in Senate amendments

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9e1a3f39-169a-4967-9cc9-1075c00365f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).