SM 22 New Mexico Senate · 2025 Regular Session

K-12 WATER CONSERVATION CURRICULUM

This Senate Memorial (SM 22) requests the New Mexico Public Education Department to study developing a K-12 water conservation curriculum. It asks the department to examine how to integrate water conservation concepts into existing subjects like math, science, and history, and to report findings by December 1, 2025. The memorial does not create a new curriculum but directs a feasibility study to inform future educational planning for students statewide.

Issues: ✓ Environment

Bill status signed all 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Signed into Law

Mar 2025

Introduced Mar 7, 2025 Signed Mar 13, 2025

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What changed between versions

introduced version → Final Version · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a traditional Senate Memorial format to a cleaner, more modern layout. The substantive content remains largely the same, requesting the Public Education Department to study water conservation curriculum for K-12 students. Minor additions specify that the study should focus on integrating the curriculum into subjects like math, science, and history, and require the report to be submitted by December 1, 2025.

Scope change

The scope of the study was slightly expanded to explicitly name math, science, and history as subjects for curriculum integration, and a specific deadline for report submission was added.

REQUIREMENT

Added specific subject areas (math, science, history) for curriculum integration in the study scope.

TIMELINE

Set a specific deadline of December 1, 2025 for submitting the study report to the legislative education study committee.

TECHNICAL

Reformatted the document layout from traditional Senate Memorial style to a cleaner, modern format with page numbers and section headers.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 13, 2025

How they voted

35–0

Passed · 5 other

Total votes 40

Mar 13, 2025

D Democratic24

22 Yea 2

91% Yea

R Republican16

13 Yea 3

81% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Mar 13, 2025

Signed into law

Signed

executive

Mar 13, 2025

Upper · Passed

passed Senate

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

DO PASS committee report adopted

upper

Mar 7, 2025

Introduced

Sent to Senate Education Committee

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors