---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDFIRE PREPARED ACT"
description: "WILDFIRE PREPARED ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "New Mexico SB 33 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ENVIRONMENT", "PUBLIC SAFETY (emergency services", "etc.)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzales, Anita", "Ortez, Kristina", "Stefanics, Elizabeth \"Liz\"", "Vincent, Harlan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 9
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc36157c-a89a-4940-958d-6ebedc37c40b"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=33&year=25"
source_hash: "c2a59cdcf96d351e26bd2e652b0cee1e3be05d754ed7219b0a42bb02100404f1"
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 33 (2025) — WILDFIRE PREPARED ACT

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CO substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0033COS.HTML)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0033FCS.HTML)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0033.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0033.HTML)

## Votes

- senate passage — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- house passage — **63–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzales, Anita — primary (person)
- Ortez, Kristina — primary (person)
- Stefanics, Elizabeth "Liz" — primary (person)
- Vincent, Harlan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27** Sent to Senate Conservation Committee & Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-22** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`
- **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/bc36157c-a89a-4940-958d-6ebedc37c40b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).