---
type: "Bill"
title: "STRATEGIC WATER SUPPLY ACT"
description: "STRATEGIC WATER SUPPLY ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 137"
citation: "New Mexico HB 137 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brandt, Craig W.", "Herrera, Susan K.", "Lara, Raymundo", "Montoya, Rod", "Muñoz, George K."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/afe6626e-5310-4957-bd46-8cd15e9b83ec"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=137&year=25"
source_hash: "09a88dd87128a2cfc38603bf2cd45e97c3053ee58420c95c318bdfb7b9ac5951"
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 137 (2025) — STRATEGIC WATER SUPPLY ACT

## 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/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0137AAS.HTML)
2. **Amendments in Context** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0137.pdf)
3. **EN substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0137ENS.HTML)
4. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0137.PDF)
5. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0137.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **57–4** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **33–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brandt, Craig W. — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
- Lara, Raymundo — primary (person)
- Montoya, Rod — primary (person)
- Muñoz, George K. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17** Sent to House Pre-file `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee & House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/afe6626e-5310-4957-bd46-8cd15e9b83ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).