---
type: "Bill"
title: "Urban Farming Assessment Act Amendments"
description: "Urban Farming Assessment Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 169"
citation: "Utah HB 169 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Farmland Assessment", "Livestock", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Property Tax", "Revenue and Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Karen M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbee31ef-036c-4d14-8345-9754ae32e7a1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0169.html"
source_hash: "5fa51bea1e7e33f434dd06b07afcc00dd0a6b7671d2e442fbb0d56964763fa91"
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 169 (2023) — Urban Farming Assessment Act 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0169.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0169.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Karen M. — primary (person)
- Sandall, Scott D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-06** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-06** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-12** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-01-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-31** to Senate
- **2023-02-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
- **2023-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-10** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-10** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-10** to House
- **2023-02-13** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-14** 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/fbee31ef-036c-4d14-8345-9754ae32e7a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).