---
type: "Bill"
title: "DRINKING WATER SYSTEM GRANTS & LOANS"
description: "DRINKING WATER SYSTEM GRANTS & LOANS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "New Mexico HB 240 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCE", "PUBLIC", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales, Anita", "Herrera, Susan K.", "Hochman-Vigil, Dayan", "Ortez, Kristina", "Silva, Sarah"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1beb93e1-43c4-4a38-bd90-c10f28d4b41d"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=240&year=25"
source_hash: "9d3f7a5fcdb3bffba1d72ab7ca5cf007c040e314aa58699b64c479201cc7fbb2"
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 240 (2025) — DRINKING WATER SYSTEM GRANTS & LOANS

## 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/HB0240.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0240.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **64–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzales, Anita — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)
- Hochman-Vigil, Dayan — primary (person)
- Ortez, Kristina — primary (person)
- Silva, Sarah — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-03** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water 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`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** DO PASS 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/1beb93e1-43c4-4a38-bd90-c10f28d4b41d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).