---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 65 Wildland Fire Amendments"
description: "H.B. 65 Wildland Fire Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 65"
citation: "Utah HB 65 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Natural Resources", "Fire Control", "Forestry and Fire", "Forestry", "Fire", "and State Lands", "Labor & Employment", "Natural Resources", "Public Lands", "Sovereign Lands", "Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snider, Casey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-12-28"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e056fb40-be8a-49b3-a640-3704a7e82a52"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0065.html"
source_hash: "b2eac51ebd1a8bcf852cecdbbd0c6d25852d780d05af8fe9fb2fac0639921e3c"
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 HB 65 (2021) — H.B. 65 Wildland Fire 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/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0065S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0065.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Snider, Casey — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-28** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-12-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-06** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-26** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-02-01** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-02-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02** comm rpt/substituted
- **2021-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-08** to Senate
- **2021-02-09** received from House
- **2021-02-09** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-11** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-19** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-19** to House
- **2021-02-19** received from Senate
- **2021-02-19** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** 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/e056fb40-be8a-49b3-a640-3704a7e82a52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).