---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 40 Water Loss Accounting"
description: "H.B. 40 Water Loss Accounting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 40"
citation: "Utah H.B. 40 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Department of Natural Resources", "Water Utilities", "Irrigation", "and Sewer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballard, Melissa G."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-12-20"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5939783-af95-43a8-9a9b-45ae4c3fc919"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0040.html"
source_hash: "a4344958e88242b014d7472b4db836e9a4cfad7e2c62ef1ba7d6992ac7594329"
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. 40 (2020) — H.B. 40 Water Loss Accounting

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0040S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillamd/HB0040S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0040.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ballard, Melissa G. — primary (person)
- Hinkins, David P. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-12-23** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** House Comm - Held
- **2020-02-24** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-24** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-02-24** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2020-02-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-26** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-27** to Senate
- **2020-02-28** received from House
- **2020-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2020-03-10** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-11** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2020-03-11** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-11** to House
- **2020-03-11** received from Senate
- **2020-03-11** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-12** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-12** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-23** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-23** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-31** 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/d5939783-af95-43a8-9a9b-45ae4c3fc919`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).