---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMNRD CONVERSION OF CERTAIN WELLS"
description: "EMNRD CONVERSION OF CERTAIN WELLS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 361"
citation: "New Mexico HB 361 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES", "ENVIRONMENT", "STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero, Andrea"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-11"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cfa08707-4cc8-4121-b423-9fa67fda42db"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=361&year=25"
source_hash: "acc1ee610ab91a17b8d78feeedac39bb6e0a967c513d54801a088dde73a617a5"
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 361 (2025) — EMNRD CONVERSION OF CERTAIN WELLS

## 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/HB0361.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0361.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **26–12** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **63–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romero, Andrea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cfa08707-4cc8-4121-b423-9fa67fda42db`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).