---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 33 Instream Water Flow Amendments"
description: "H.B. 33 Instream Water Flow Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 33"
citation: "Utah HB 33 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Natural Resources", "Division of State Parks", "Environment", "Forestry", "Fire", "and State Lands", "Natural Resources", "Public Lands", "Sovereign Lands", "Water", "Water Rights", "Wildlife"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ferry, Joel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9db9049d-03dc-4213-9c5c-b0b8b09cfe57"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0033.html"
source_hash: "a52b8bf311274a374e22367b8c11339b5566a47562afb1c6c6491730143235a7"
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 33 (2022) — H.B. 33 Instream Water Flow 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/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0033S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0033.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **68–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ferry, Joel — primary (person)
- Sandall, Scott D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-12-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-12** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-19** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-01-26** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-27** comm rpt/substituted
- **2022-01-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-02** to Senate
- **2022-02-03** received from House
- **2022-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-04** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-14** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-14** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-16** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-17** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-02-17** to House
- **2022-02-17** received from Senate
- **2022-02-17** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-21** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-02-21** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-10** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-21** 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/9db9049d-03dc-4213-9c5c-b0b8b09cfe57`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).