---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Classification Amendments"
description: "County Classification Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 176"
citation: "Utah HB 176 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Local Government Classification", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brooks, Walt"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 37
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-10T22:32:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T00:08:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd10abac-2a30-44ac-a795-9bdba77fec93"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0176.html"
source_hash: "948fd1767c5ea3f13f546580ceb55315e38876fe44906bace84bba597c9ada9f"
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 176 (2025) — County Classification 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0176.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0176 To HB0176S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0176S01 To HB0176S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB176H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB176H10.pdf)
6. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB176S10.pdf)
7. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB176S10.pdf)
8. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0176S01.xml)
9. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0176S02.xml)
10. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0176.xml)

## Sponsors

- Brooks, Walt — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10T22:32:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-10T22:32:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T19:16:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:29:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-31T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-10T18:31:00+00:00** Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- **2025-02-10T19:03:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T16:51:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T16:51:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T18:12:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-13T18:12:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-20T22:39:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T22:39:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-26T22:22:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T22:31:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T22:31:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T23:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T17:38:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T15:38:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T21:47:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-06T22:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T22:55:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T22:55:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:55:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T23:27:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T23:27:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:02:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T21:02:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T20:04:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T20:04:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:56:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:56:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T00:08:00+00:00** 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/fd10abac-2a30-44ac-a795-9bdba77fec93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).