---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water General Adjudication Amendments"
description: "Water General Adjudication Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 355"
citation: "Utah H.B. 355 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Water and Irrigation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferry, Joel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-15"
last_action: "2019-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdb09335-5400-4d0f-9361-040dd041ab95"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0355.html"
source_hash: "9303372222e185c8c085e9363368e831b9a68cb22d81db10207cf609b1860d43"
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. 355 (2019) — Water General Adjudication 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/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0355.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0355.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ferry, Joel — primary (person)
- Okerlund, Ralph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-15** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-02-15** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-21** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-04** to Senate
- **2019-03-05** received from House
- **2019-03-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2019-03-13** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** circled
- **2019-03-14** uncircled
- **2019-03-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-21** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** 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/fdb09335-5400-4d0f-9361-040dd041ab95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).