---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Measuring and Accounting Amendments"
description: "Water Measuring and Accounting Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Utah HB 61 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "New Rulemaking Authority", "State Engineer", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Albrecht, Carl R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-22"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2d7e24ff-94d6-43f4-a6d8-f62c84593dd1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0061.html"
source_hash: "2d05df8c79945496f61f615c38d1f7eecf40bdef5323570287c8a3e880518f12"
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 61 (2024) — Water Measuring and Accounting 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0061.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0061.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albrecht, Carl R. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-12-22** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-11** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-01-18** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-19** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-23** to Senate
- **2024-01-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-01-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** 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
- **2024-02-07** uncircled
- **2024-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-07** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-07** to House
- **2024-02-08** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **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/2d7e24ff-94d6-43f4-a6d8-f62c84593dd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).