---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 272 Utah Lake Amendments"
description: "H.B. 272 Utah Lake Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 272"
citation: "Utah H.B. 272 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Lands", "Economic Development", "Natural Resources", "Water and Irrigation", "Water Quality", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-30"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c29a1d81-8d7c-4d80-adee-bb96d7133451"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0272.html"
source_hash: "9f1bc7c3850066916cfa09030f313c26acfde6b15d96a4d6a839a04a60be54f4"
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-ut"]
---

# Utah H.B. 272 (2018) — H.B. 272 Utah Lake Amendments

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillint/HB0272S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0272S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0272.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **54–18** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **15–4** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Henderson, Deidre M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-02-07** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-21** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2018-02-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-21** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2018-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-27** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-02-27** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-27** floor amendment # 3
- **2018-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-27** to Senate
- **2018-02-28** received from House
- **2018-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-28** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-07** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-03-08** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-08** to House
- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c29a1d81-8d7c-4d80-adee-bb96d7133451`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).