---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 280 Water Related Changes"
description: "H.B. 280 Water Related Changes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 280"
citation: "Utah HB 280 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Natural Resources", "Local Government Infrastructure and Utilities", "Natural Resources", "Rulemaking Procedures", "Water", "Water Utilities", "Irrigation", "and Sewer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snider, Casey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 48
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9322391f-bbd0-41a4-9209-be7597e2798b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0280.html"
source_hash: "0da34f25c91085de18dff916cd85391199522d21165310317ec0009c11a17602"
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 280 (2024) — H.B. 280 Water Related Changes

## 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/HB0280S05.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0280.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Held — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **71–3** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **63–5** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-23** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-01-29** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-29** House Comm - Held
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-16** substituted from # 2 to # 4 `substitution`
- **2024-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-16** to Senate
- **2024-02-16** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** substituted from # 4 to # 5 `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-27** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-27** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-27** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-28** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-28** to Senate
- **2024-02-28** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** to House
- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-02-29** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-18** 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/9322391f-bbd0-41a4-9209-be7597e2798b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).