---
type: "Bill"
title: "PIPELINE SAFETY ACT VIOLATIONS CIVIL PENALTY"
description: "PIPELINE SAFETY ACT VIOLATIONS CIVIL PENALTY"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 9"
citation: "New Mexico SB 9 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CRIMES & PENALTIES", "ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Soules, William P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 9
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cca6585-e368-4e72-819b-5cd35cc98f2c"
source_url: "http://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legType=B&legNo=9&year=25"
source_hash: "1a2e728c9b673233d755d9f9cb3980d1463f978c8b9af5aba801051fd8caea80"
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 9 (2025) — PIPELINE SAFETY ACT VIOLATIONS CIVIL PENALTY

## 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/SB0009.pdf)
2. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/final/SB0009.PDF)
3. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/25%20Regular/bills/senate/SB0009.HTML)

## Sponsors

- Soules, William P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-05** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-21** Sent to Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee & Senate Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-06** passed Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Sent to House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee & House Judiciary Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** DO PASS committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** passed House `passage`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cca6585-e368-4e72-819b-5cd35cc98f2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).