---
type: "Bill"
title: "LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND CHANGES"
description: "LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND CHANGES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "New Mexico SB 169 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neville, Steven P.", "Stewart, Mimi"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-23"
last_action: "2024-02-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4123871-0774-4db6-aff6-72bba2b89a50"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=169&year=24"
source_hash: "fc40de5993c6ef60d317b1476ac1dc42d18cd6385f26b3960abb7f0400661217"
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 169 (2024) — LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND CHANGES

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/SB0169.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/SB0169.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0169.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neville, Steven P. — primary (person)
- Stewart, Mimi — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-23** Sent to Senate Committees' Committee & Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** germane
- **2024-02-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-10** Sent to House Rural Development, Land Grants and Cultural Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-14** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4123871-0774-4db6-aff6-72bba2b89a50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).