---
type: "Bill"
title: "REMOVE MRGCD FROM LOCAL ELECTION ACT"
description: "REMOVE MRGCD FROM LOCAL ELECTION ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 308"
citation: "New Mexico HB 308 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Gail", "Lente, Derrick J.", "Woods, Pat"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-05"
last_action: "2025-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce17b3c9-071f-457b-bd5e-538a9c2127f7"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=308&year=25"
source_hash: "3d33ad99f7796ae2b6d4df4e3ca0fe2082afe31c667830e556ca20d223c76ae1"
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 308 (2025) — REMOVE MRGCD FROM LOCAL ELECTION ACT

## 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/HB0308.PDF)
2. **JC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0308JCS.HTML)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0308.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **55–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Lente, Derrick J. — primary (person)
- Woods, Pat — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-05** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-01** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-22** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-05** Sent to Senate Rules Committee & Senate Conservation 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/ce17b3c9-071f-457b-bd5e-538a9c2127f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).