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HOUSE BILL 423
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TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
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MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
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2025
INTRODUCED BY
Debra M. Sariñana and Joy Garratt and Yanira Gurrola
AN ACT
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER FOR
WATER SECURITY PLANNING ACT, WATER DATA ACT AND RIO GRANDE
COMPACT COMPLIANCE MEASURES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. APPROPRIATION--WATER PLANNING.--Thirty million
dollars ($30,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
the office of the state engineer for expenditure in fiscal
years 2026 through 2028 for the interstate stream commission
pursuant to the Water Security Planning Act to provide grants
to political subdivisions of the state as fiscal agents for
regional water planning entities. Any unexpended or
unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2028
shall revert to the general fund.
SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION--WATER DATA ACT COMPLIANCE.--
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Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) is appropriated from the
general fund to the office of the state engineer for
expenditure in fiscal years 2026 through 2028 for the office of
the state engineer and the interstate stream commission to
improve business processes and information technology systems
for internal and public access to water data and to fully
comply with the agencies' Water Data Act responsibilities as
directing agencies and the agencies' Water Security Planning
Act responsibilities as water data providers. Any unexpended
or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year
2028 shall revert to the general fund.
SECTION 3. APPROPRIATION--WATER RIGHTS.--Two million
dollars ($2,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to
the office of the state engineer for expenditure in fiscal
years 2026 and 2027 to promulgate rules pursuant to Section
72-2-9.1 NMSA 1978 and take actions required to enforce Rio
Grande water rights along the Rio Grande from the Los Alamos
highway bridge to Elephant Butte reservoir to ensure compliance
with New Mexico's water delivery obligations to Elephant Butte
reservoir pursuant to the Rio Grande Compact. Any unexpended
or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year
2027 shall revert to the general fund.
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