---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 277 Water Conservation and Augmentation Amendments"
description: "S.B. 277 Water Conservation and Augmentation Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 277"
citation: "Utah SB 277 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Agriculture and Food", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Department of Natural Resources", "Legislative Operations", "Natural Resources", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Sunsets and Repealers", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sandall, Scott D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-22"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a30c6b2e-5733-48c3-ad87-456366267c83"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0277.html"
source_hash: "f18ba7ac4982c13afd6e92262a87e46d6580d18863367d94be9686e16ebb25ef"
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 277 (2023) — S.B. 277 Water Conservation and Augmentation 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/SB0277S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0277.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sandall, Scott D. — primary (person)
- Snider, Casey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-22** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2023-02-24** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** circled
- **2023-02-28** uncircled
- **2023-02-28** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-02-28** to House
- **2023-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-01** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** to Senate
- **2023-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-02** 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`
- **2023-03-14** 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/a30c6b2e-5733-48c3-ad87-456366267c83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).