---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Banking Amendments"
description: "Water Banking Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "S.B. 26"
citation: "Utah S.B. 26 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Department of Natural Resources", "Water Utilities", "Irrigation", "and Sewer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Iwamoto, Jani"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-12-20"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/194b096c-c378-4b60-b648-c9cca12f6507"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/SB0026.html"
source_hash: "7c3175e657f1d4875db9b485bcc99ab8aca10891dff1c96e23fc7b40390bd7b4"
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 S.B. 26 (2020) — Water Banking Amendments

## 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/sbillint/SB0026.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/sbillamd/SB0026.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/sbillenr/SB0026.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Iwamoto, Jani — primary (person)
- Hawkes, Timothy D. — 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
- **2019-12-23** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-01-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-01-27** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-01-29** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-30** comm rpt/amended
- **2020-01-30** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-01-30** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-01-31** to House
- **2020-02-03** received from Senate
- **2020-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-10** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-10** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-12** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2020-02-12** to Senate
- **2020-02-12** received from House
- **2020-02-12** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2020-02-12** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2020-02-12** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-28** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-28** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** 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/194b096c-c378-4b60-b648-c9cca12f6507`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).