---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Governance Amendments"
description: "County Governance Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 356"
citation: "Utah HB 356 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Form of Local Government", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Teuscher, Jordan D."]
version_count: 12
action_count: 47
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29T20:54:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T16:07:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8989f20e-4773-45cd-bf9f-0f48db8aa83d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0356.html"
source_hash: "9aefae1f2ed1e1d123d2e0e792c8f741a19d4848459035da1898f56335b61cce"
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 356 (2025) — County Governance 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/HB0356.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0356 To HB0356S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0356S01 To HB0356S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0356S02 To HB0356S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB356H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB356H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB356H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB356S10.pdf)
9. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0356S01.xml)
10. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0356S02.xml)
11. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0356S03.xml)
12. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0356.xml)

## Sponsors

- Teuscher, Jordan D. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29T20:54:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-29T20:54:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-30T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-30T18:27:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-05T17:06:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-12T19:00:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T16:20:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-19T16:21:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T22:10:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-19T22:10:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:39:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:39:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-28T18:48:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-28T18:49:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-28T18:56:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T18:56:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-28T19:50:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T21:42:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T23:00:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2025-03-05T01:18:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2025-03-05T17:03:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- **2025-03-07T23:03:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-08T04:58:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T05:40:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:43:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-08T05:45:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:45:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-08T06:14:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T06:14:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T06:22:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-08T06:54:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-08T06:57:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T06:57:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-12T15:52:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T15:52:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-12T15:52:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-12T22:24:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-12T22:24:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T20:30:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T20:30:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:31:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:31:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T16:07:00+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/8989f20e-4773-45cd-bf9f-0f48db8aa83d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).