---
type: "Bill"
title: "STORM WATER SERVICE AS MUNICIPAL UTILITY"
description: "STORM WATER SERVICE AS MUNICIPAL UTILITY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 7"
citation: "New Mexico SB 7 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "UTILITIES (sewer", "electric", "gas", "water", "telephone)", "WATER & WATER RIGHTS (acequias", "irrigation", "rivers)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sharer, William E."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08bd2d64-fdb9-473c-bfdc-a2f02b3c526f"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=7&year=25"
source_hash: "f663f3f536ca8c736bb6034fa0b5b2cce9c1e5ec34775d6664ff5e40cae4b019"
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 7 (2025) — STORM WATER SERVICE AS MUNICIPAL UTILITY

## 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/SB0007.PDF)
2. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0007.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Sharer, William E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee & Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-12** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** passed House `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Sent to House Agriculture, Acequias & Water Resources Committee & House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08bd2d64-fdb9-473c-bfdc-a2f02b3c526f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).