---
type: "Bill"
title: "Animal Composting Amendments"
description: "Animal Composting Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 342"
citation: "Utah HB 342 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Agriculture & Food", "Animals", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Environment", "Livestock"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kohler, Mike L."]
version_count: 11
action_count: 40
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T17:05:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:29:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b697a71c-fb2d-4883-8f6b-7f8949e0ae15"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0342.html"
source_hash: "4406abd24f61c71da198c1abf0341792f217dff5b5b1aba261ee0aa0c434c4cc"
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 342 (2025) — Animal Composting 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/HB0342.xml)
2. **Amended 2/18/2025 11:02:638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0342_2025-02-18_11-33-04.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/18/2025 11:02:638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0342_2025-02-18_11-33-04.pdf)
4. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0342.Hamd.1.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB342H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB342H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB342H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB342S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB342S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB342S20.pdf)
11. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0342.xml)

## Sponsors

- Kohler, Mike L. — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T17:05:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-28T17:05:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-28T17:48:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-28T18:16:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-30T17:06:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-31T19:29:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03T21:49:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04T18:15:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04T18:15:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-11T22:21:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-11T22:25:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-11T22:25:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-11T23:15:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-12T18:09:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-14T17:12:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T16:03:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-18T16:08:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-19T22:51:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-19T22:54:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T21:40:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-20T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-02-21T17:13:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T17:13:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-02-24T17:32:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-24T17:32:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-24T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-24T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T16:01:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T16:01:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-26T18:00:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-26T18:00:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-02-27T15:29:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-02-27T15:29:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-01T00:00:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-01T00:00:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:29:00+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/b697a71c-fb2d-4883-8f6b-7f8949e0ae15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).