---
type: "Bill"
title: "ENERGY PROJECT SITING & MILITARY BASES"
description: "ENERGY PROJECT SITING & MILITARY BASES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 159"
citation: "New Mexico HB 159 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES", "MILITARY AFFAIRS (national guard", "vets)", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martinez, Alan T.", "Pope, Harold", "Sariñana, Debra M."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/feccdc6f-377f-4604-87a3-1be5c49577c7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=159&year=25"
source_hash: "0291d942160318c741a35baf4c17c1ff88f3343af8074abbb30d209e67df6fb1"
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 159 (2025) — ENERGY PROJECT SITING & MILITARY BASES

## 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/25%20Regular/Amendments_In_Context/HB0159.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0159.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0159.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Martinez, Alan T. — primary (person)
- Pope, Harold — primary (person)
- Sariñana, Debra M. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Labor, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-17** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/feccdc6f-377f-4604-87a3-1be5c49577c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).