2009 Legislative Tracker
The New Mexico Acequia Association is tracking the following bills in the 2009 Legislative session. For more detailed information, visit the legislative website. To get more information about a specific bill listed below, click on the bill number.
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Bandy |
Limits condemnation powers of municipalities to areas within their respective boundaries. |
Passed House and passed SCONC. Next to SJC. |
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Leavell |
Remove jurisdiction over oil and gas activities from political subdivisions of the state, such as counties. |
Tabled in Senate Conservation Committee. |
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Heaton |
Limits powers of Oil Conservation Division to enact regulations to prevent contamination of water. |
House Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Pulled from agenda. |
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Heaton |
Exempts industry from penalties if incident reported voluntarily within certain number of days. |
Passed House Energy and Natural Resources Committee; passed Health and Govt. Affairs Committee. Currently in House Judiciary Committee. |
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Cisneros |
Provides $150k to NMSU for Rural Entrepreneurship program for small scale farmers and ranchers. |
Passed Senate Education Committee. Located in SFC. |
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B. Lujan
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Provides additional $575k to the Acequia and Community Ditch Fund |
Due Pass by House Appropriations and Finance Committee; no additional funds this year.
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Bandy |
Provides for marketing of NM agricultural products based on regional, varietal, or specialty labels. |
Passed House Judiciary. Currently in Senate Conservation Committee. |
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SB 59 R. Martinez |
Land grant tort liability. Provides certain exclusions from waiver of immunity of liability; and extends eligibility for liability coverage for community land grants governed as political subdivisions. |
Passed Senate. Next to House Consumer and Public Affairs Committee. |
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HB 19 Stewart |
Provides state engineer jurisdiction over deep aquifers below 2500′. |
Passed House. Passed SCONC. Next to SJC. |
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SB 486 Ortiz y Pino |
Limits powers of certain districts over acequias and community ditches. |
Passed Senate Conservation Committee. Passed Senate Public Affiars. |
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HB 473 Egolf |
Amendment to the requirements for the position of State Engineer to include geohydrologists, hydrologists, and attorneys. |
Passed Agriculture and Water Resources Committee. Currently in House Health and Govt. Affairs Committee. |
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SB 336 Sapien
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Auditing local governments, including acequias. |
Passed Senate. Now in HHAGC. |
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SB 560 McSorley |
Protects farmers from liability if crops become crossed or otherwise mixed with genetically engineered crops.
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Senate Conservation Committee. TABLED. |
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HB 219 Egolf |
Free Market Energy Restoration Act. |
Passed Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Currently in House Judiciary Committee. |
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