---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 381 Agricultural Water Optimization"
description: "H.B. 381 Agricultural Water Optimization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 381"
citation: "Utah H.B. 381 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Water and Irrigation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkes, Timothy D."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-12"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4950801-7121-447a-89f9-508a06f844aa"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0381.html"
source_hash: "2b404f59689baf43d4be415991e6616815e155e9d9565bab806265376f3c5358"
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. 381 (2018) — H.B. 381 Agricultural Water Optimization

## 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/HB0381S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0381S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0381.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hawkes, Timothy D. — primary (person)
- Dayton, Margaret — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-12** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-02-12** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-02-13** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-02-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-20** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-02-20** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-23** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2018-02-23** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2018-02-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2018-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-02-27** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-02** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-02** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-05** to Senate
- **2018-03-06** received from House
- **2018-03-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-06** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-06** to House
- **2018-03-06** received from Senate
- **2018-03-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-08** 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`
- **2018-03-16** 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/b4950801-7121-447a-89f9-508a06f844aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).