---
type: "Bill"
title: "Outdoor Recreation Revisions"
description: "Outdoor Recreation Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 439"
citation: "Utah HB 439 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Department of Natural Resources", "Natural Resources", "Outdoor Recreation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chew, Scott H."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-06T22:37:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:38:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d054730-c39b-486c-adb7-83ed97460907"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0439.html"
source_hash: "8d63c472310bd353c836272f98a070a38b2dbf3ee405ebd399d4c92e8ef22c08"
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 439 (2025) — Outdoor Recreation Revisions

## 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/HB0439.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0439 To HB0439S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB439H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB439H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB439S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB439S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0439S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0439.xml)

## Sponsors

- Chew, Scott H. — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06T22:37:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-06T22:37:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-07T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-07T18:17:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T20:52:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T17:59:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T15:10:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-20T15:11:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20T18:23:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-20T18:23:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T22:16:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T22:20:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T22:20:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T00:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T17:35:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T23:13:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T17:29:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T17:29:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T18:07:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T18:10:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T18:10:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T18:10:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T20:28:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T20:28:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T19:53:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T19:53:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:54:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:54:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:38:00+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/3d054730-c39b-486c-adb7-83ed97460907`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).