---
type: "Bill"
title: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2026"
description: "GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2026"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nm"
legislature: "New Mexico Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 2"
citation: "New Mexico HB 2 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dixon, Meredith A.", "Small, Nathan P."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 8
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-20"
last_action: "2026-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ed6305d-3b72-4c27-b190-f5c77e624155"
source_url: "https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=H&legType=B&legNo=2&year=26"
source_hash: "ee8d4dada9462251ad54c235c0e258a454f937d45827fe34fe2020ed859a50e8"
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 HB 2 (2026) — GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT OF 2026

## Version chain

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

1. **AF substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002AFS.HTML)
2. **FC substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002FCS.pdf)
3. **Final Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/final/HB0002.PDF)
4. **introduced version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/26%20Regular/bills/house/HB0002.HTML)

## Votes

- house passage — **55–15** (pass) · lower
- senate passage — **23–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dixon, Meredith A. — primary (person)
- Small, Nathan P. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-18** House concurred in Senate amendments
- **2026-01-20** Sent to House Appropriations & Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Signed `executive-signature`
- **2026-02-15** DO PASS, as amended, committee report adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-16** passed Senate `passage`
- **2026-02-04** passed House `passage`
- **2026-02-05** Sent to Senate Finance Committee `introduction, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ed6305d-3b72-4c27-b190-f5c77e624155`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Mexico legislature records).