---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal and County Zoning Amendments"
description: "Municipal and County Zoning Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 256"
citation: "Utah HB 256 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Counties", "Local Government Ordinances", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Rental and Leasing Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter, R. Neil"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 41
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T18:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T06:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89f65f33-1a20-4c61-9b2e-0c9fb5968823"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0256.html"
source_hash: "91049937639d7f873278e667df1d399ab281e50bd03a72c0fb29e3acf3e18000"
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 256 (2025) — Municipal and County Zoning 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/HB0256.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0256 To HB0256S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0256S01 To HB0256S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0256S02 To HB0256S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB256H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB256H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB256H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB256S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB256S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB256S20.pdf)
11. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0256S01.xml)
12. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0256S02.xml)
13. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0256S03.xml)
14. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0256.xml)

## Sponsors

- Walter, R. Neil — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T18:00:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T18:00:00+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)
- **2025-01-22T17:13:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-28T19:00:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T21:41:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-31T18:11:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-31T18:11:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-10T21:25:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-10T21:25:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-10T21:35:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-10T21:35:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-11T17:19:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-11T18:16:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-19T21:12:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T16:25:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-26T16:26:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T22:00:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **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`
- **2025-03-06T17:07:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-06T18:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-06T21:15:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T21:15:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-06T22:11:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:11:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T00:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T00:10:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T00:11:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:01:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T22:01:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T18:58:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T18:58:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:02:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:02:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19T06:00:00+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/89f65f33-1a20-4c61-9b2e-0c9fb5968823`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).