---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture and Food Amendments"
description: "Agriculture and Food Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 253"
citation: "Utah HB 253 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture & Food", "Animals", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Livestock", "Public Funds and Accounts", "Revenue and Taxation", "Sales and Use Tax"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Albrecht, Carl R."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T22:12:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:04:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c294f7b-a166-4e14-8f82-856bdda774a6"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0253.html"
source_hash: "4b61cf0dc1deea6d4c04b5398d535286ce505cd229104f187d7c237e65e01847"
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 253 (2025) — Agriculture and Food 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/HB0253.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0253 To HB0253S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB253H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB253H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB253S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB253S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0253S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0253.xml)

## Sponsors

- Albrecht, Carl R. — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T22:12:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-16T22:12:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:51:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-24T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-27T18:35:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T21:13:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-29T18:13:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-29T18:13:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-06T22:01:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-06T22:03:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-06T22:08:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-06T22:08:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-06T23:53:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-07T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-13T17:24:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T15:36:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-19T22:50:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-19T22:50:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-19T22:55:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-19T22:57:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T21:44:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-20T21:45:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-20T21:45:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-21T16:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T16:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-24T19:26:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-24T19:26:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-07T16:58:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07T16:58:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T18:38:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T18:39:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:04:00+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/5c294f7b-a166-4e14-8f82-856bdda774a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).