---
type: "Bill"
title: "FOREST & WATERSHED BUFFER PROJECTS"
description: "FOREST & WATERSHED BUFFER PROJECTS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 175"
citation: "New Mexico HB 175 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "PUBLIC SAFETY (emergency services", "etc.)", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dow, Rebecca", "Ortez, Kristina", "Terrazas, Luis M.", "Vincent, Harlan"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/031c9b08-c706-4d9c-9848-d26cc4dd0a9e"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=175&year=25"
source_hash: "4f87931d62bf11d39c8cff6efb555d49b01323dab503dfa637f90a261be10ceb"
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 175 (2025) — FOREST & WATERSHED BUFFER PROJECTS

## 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/25%20Regular/final/HB0175.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0175.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **56–2** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)
- Ortez, Kristina — primary (person)
- Terrazas, Luis M. — primary (person)
- Vincent, Harlan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-08** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/031c9b08-c706-4d9c-9848-d26cc4dd0a9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).