---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 11 Water Efficient Landscaping Requirements"
description: "H.B. 11 Water Efficient Landscaping Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 11"
citation: "Utah HB 11 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government Operations (State Issues)", "Natural Resources", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Doug"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 47
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-12-15"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a64962f-1076-4eee-a3bc-6ceba98b9324"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0011.html"
source_hash: "4391025eca029171800b4267e200b8a5f63a47748d72630d5137523e6bf47161"
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 11 (2024) — H.B. 11 Water Efficient Landscaping Requirements

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0011S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0011.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **19–9** (pass) · upper
- concurs with Senate amendment — **59–12** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **51–22** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **23–2** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Owens, Doug — primary (person)
- Winterton, Ronald M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-12** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-01-18** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-18** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-19** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-23** held
- **2024-01-26** to Senate
- **2024-01-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-30** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-01-30** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** circled
- **2024-02-20** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-20** uncircled
- **2024-02-20** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-20** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-20** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-21** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate
- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-21** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to House
- **2024-02-22** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-22** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-22** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/6a64962f-1076-4eee-a3bc-6ceba98b9324`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).