---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Amendments"
description: "Water Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 89"
citation: "Utah SB 89 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drinking Water", "Natural Resources", "Water", "Water Company", "Water Utilities", "Irrigation", "and Sewer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Iwamoto, Jani"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cae121c3-3f8a-4585-bb9b-58421d2c5179"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/SB0089.html"
source_hash: "7cb553af9f256907e73cc8aa5ab6a9d11225778679e620060ef0c12affaf311a"
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 SB 89 (2022) — Water 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/sbillint/SB0089.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillamd/SB0089.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillenr/SB0089.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Iwamoto, Jani — primary (person)
- Hawkes, Timothy D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-11** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-18** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2022-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-03** comm rpt/amended
- **2022-02-03** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-10** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-11** to House
- **2022-02-14** received from Senate
- **2022-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-15** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-18** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-23** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2022-02-23** to Senate
- **2022-02-23** received from House
- **2022-02-23** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-25** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2022-02-25** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2022-03-15** 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/cae121c3-3f8a-4585-bb9b-58421d2c5179`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).