---
type: "Bill"
title: "ESSENTIAL SERVICES DEVELOPMENT ACT"
description: "ESSENTIAL SERVICES DEVELOPMENT ACT"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 357"
citation: "New Mexico SB 357 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE AGENCIES & DEPARTMENTS (including reorganization)", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chandler, Christine", "Hamblen, Carrie", "Paul, Nicholas A.", "Thornton, Anthony L."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 11
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57b72f39-521a-4185-addf-d5b1b239f3fb"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=357&year=25"
source_hash: "69e5078fc4609b3eb5588dc1ecdf1f02771dfc31bf5a28b6ac7fa3676b19cac7"
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 357 (2025) — ESSENTIAL SERVICES DEVELOPMENT ACT

## 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/SB0357.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0357.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0357.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **61–3** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chandler, Christine — primary (person)
- Hamblen, Carrie — primary (person)
- Paul, Nicholas A. — primary (person)
- Thornton, Anthony L. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Conservation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-15** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-13** Sent to House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-19** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-28** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28** withdrawn from committee `withdrawal`
- **2025-02-28** referred to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/57b72f39-521a-4185-addf-d5b1b239f3fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).