---
type: "Bill"
title: "APPOINTMENT OF WATERSHED BOARDS"
description: "APPOINTMENT OF WATERSHED BOARDS"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "New Mexico HB 431 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS & COMMISSIONS", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Armstrong, Gail", "Dow, Rebecca", "Herrera, Susan K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30fd3770-f2b9-4580-9efd-50d8fa2d29ff"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=431&year=25"
source_hash: "be6063142859f4d65c5b6f3ded99169e5ee64b7e12d3fe18451a9930352324c7"
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 431 (2025) — APPOINTMENT OF WATERSHED BOARDS

## 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/HB0431.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/house/HB0431.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **63–1** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Armstrong, Gail — primary (person)
- Dow, Rebecca — primary (person)
- Herrera, Susan K. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-16** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-22** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-15** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30fd3770-f2b9-4580-9efd-50d8fa2d29ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).