---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 259 Department of Agriculture and Food Amendments"
description: "S.B. 259 Department of Agriculture and Food Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 259"
citation: "Utah SB 259 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture and Food", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Food"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-17"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1091404a-60ef-4588-b0d8-9ffb5e494f7c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0259.html"
source_hash: "d3d87aa2142f0b0c49017d4371d8e47a3b5581244becc913dbde925c270bca51"
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 259 (2023) — S.B. 259 Department of Agriculture and Food 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/sbillint/SB0259S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0259.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with House amendment — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Owens, Derrin R. — primary (person)
- Albrecht, Carl R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-17** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-17** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-17** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-21** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-27** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2023-03-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-03-01** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2023-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-02** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2023-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-03** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-03-03** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-03** to House
- **2023-03-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-03** to Senate
- **2023-03-03** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-06** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** 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/1091404a-60ef-4588-b0d8-9ffb5e494f7c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).