---
type: "Bill"
title: "Urban Farming Assessment Amendments"
description: "Urban Farming Assessment Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 240"
citation: "Utah HB 240 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture & Food", "Assessment and Equalization", "Counties", "County Officers", "Farmland Assessment", "Local Taxation and Fees", "Property Tax", "Property Tax Collection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shipp, Rex P."]
version_count: 10
action_count: 37
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T20:48:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:34:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e70ac75f-6a4a-4070-9090-d83209924c94"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0240.html"
source_hash: "396aba7a29a6be22367b94bd1d52c961b54068ca4cbb40d4d7afd5080170b81d"
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 240 (2025) — Urban Farming Assessment 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/HB0240.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0240 To HB0240S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0240S01 To HB0240S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB240H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB240H10.pdf)
6. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB240S10.pdf)
7. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB240S10.pdf)
8. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0240S01.xml)
9. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0240S02.xml)
10. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0240.xml)

## Sponsors

- Shipp, Rex P. — primary (person)
- Stratton, Keven J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T20:48:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-16T20:48:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:50:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:18:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-04T18:55:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T23:18:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-06T23:19:00+00:00** House Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed `failure`
- **2025-02-06T23:21:00+00:00** House Comm - Held
- **2025-02-12T22:16:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-12T22:17:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T17:27:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-13T17:27:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-20T21:19:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T21:23:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-20T21:23:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-21T16:05:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T17:19:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-24T21:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T16:36:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T22:00:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T22:00:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-08T04:58:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T05:33:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:34:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:35:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T06:17:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T06:17:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-11T13:09:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-11T13:09:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T22:47:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T22:47:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:09:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:09:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:34:00+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/e70ac75f-6a4a-4070-9090-d83209924c94`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).