KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to New Mexico

SB83 • 2026

ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Senator Pete Campos
Last action
Official status
[1] SCC/SEC/SFC-SCC-germane-SEC [5] DP-SFC API.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

What This Bill Does

  • ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-02 New Mexico Legislature

    SEC: Reported by committee with Do Pass recommendation

  2. 2026-01-23 New Mexico Legislature

    SCC: Reported by committee to fall within the purview of a 30 day session

  3. 2026-01-22 New Mexico Legislature

    Sent to SCC - Referrals: SCC/SEC/SFC

  4. New Mexico Legislature

    Action Postponed Indefinitely

Official Summary Text

ACCELERATING RESILIENCE INNOVATIONS DRYLANDS

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
SB0083

SENATE BILL 83

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2026

INTRODUCED BY

Pete Campos

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOR THE ACCELERATING RESILIENCE
INNOVATIONS IN DRYLANDS INSTITUTE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

SECTION 1.
APPROPRIATION.--One million nine hundred
thirty-seven thousand dollars ($1,937,000) is appropriated from
the general fund to the board of regents of the university of
New Mexico for expenditure in fiscal year 2027 for the
university of New Mexico's accelerating resilience innovations
in drylands institute to be used in cooperation with the
university's natural heritage New Mexico: for ecological
monitoring of New Mexico's air, land and water; to continue
developing a technologically advanced statewide ecological
monitoring network with modeling and artificial intelligence
solutions to diagnose and predict vulnerabilities in New
Mexico's ecosystems, including fire risk; to develop resilience
strategies for the sustainable management of air, land and
water; to continue programs that foster cooperation between the
university of New Mexico and kindergarten through twelfth grade
students enrolled in the science, technology, engineering and
math programs; and to enhance tribal engagement with research
at the university of New Mexico. Any unexpended balance
remaining at the end of fiscal year 2027 shall revert to the
general fund.

- 2 -