---
type: "Bill"
title: "RECYCLING & STATE'S CIRCULAR ECONOMY"
description: "RECYCLING & STATE'S CIRCULAR ECONOMY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 291"
citation: "New Mexico HB 291 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BUSINESS & INDUSTRY", "ENVIRONMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lujan, Tara L.", "Romero, Andrea", "Steinborn, Jeff"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/661adc88-a256-42bc-9f9c-00b9860d567c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=291&year=25"
source_hash: "b69eee08f2c1e4122ed01596d22e37df0d937adee1cc7c77c7b69132723ce36d"
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 291 (2025) — RECYCLING & STATE'S CIRCULAR ECONOMY

## 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/HB0291.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/HB0291.PDF)
3. **GE substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0291GES.HTML)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0291.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **60–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lujan, Tara L. — primary (person)
- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)
- Steinborn, Jeff — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-03** passed House `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/661adc88-a256-42bc-9f9c-00b9860d567c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).