---
type: "Bill"
title: "NMFA DEFINITIONS, FUNDS & RATES"
description: "NMFA DEFINITIONS, FUNDS & RATES"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 170"
citation: "New Mexico SB 170 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & TOURISM", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon, Meredith A.", "Garratt, Joy", "Hernandez, Joshua N.", "Padilla, Michael"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-28"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ad7dbc6-ad0e-4f60-ac33-3931a5891bd1"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=170&year=25"
source_hash: "aa7fa7fa2bab68916ac563219227a9d3706c927039c1819d87ff8e1af7709664"
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 SB 170 (2025) — NMFA DEFINITIONS, FUNDS & RATES

## 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/SB0170.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0170.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0170.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **31–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon, Meredith A. — primary (person)
- Garratt, Joy — primary (person)
- Hernandez, Joshua N. — primary (person)
- Padilla, Michael — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** floor substitute adopted (1 amendment)
- **2025-03-10** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Sent to House Commerce & Economic Development Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Senate concurred in House amendments
- **2025-03-20** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6ad7dbc6-ad0e-4f60-ac33-3931a5891bd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).