---
type: "Bill"
title: "\"ACEQUIA DAY\""
description: "\"ACEQUIA DAY\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HM 21"
citation: "New Mexico HM 21 (2025)"
classification: ["memorial"]
subjects: ["MEMORIALS", "OTHER", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanchez, Joseph"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 4
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc84f0a5-2305-4f8b-8118-3722942279f0"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=M&legNo=21&year=25"
source_hash: "142acaf7445484695068068fe7608b4fd662d6961c56ccc429363aecfd50f5f5"
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 HM 21 (2025) — "ACEQUIA DAY"

## 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/HM021.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/memorials/house/HM021.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sanchez, Joseph — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** not printed, not referred to committee, tabled
- **2025-02-11** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-02-11** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cc84f0a5-2305-4f8b-8118-3722942279f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).