---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Entity Amendments"
description: "Water Entity Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 520"
citation: "Utah HB 520 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Natural Resources", "Forestry", "Fire", "and State Lands", "Great Salt Lake", "Natural Resources", "Utah Lake", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snider, Casey"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 40
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-18T15:57:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:15:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d222eae2-05a7-443e-9246-c7d4dfd484d2"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0520.html"
source_hash: "cf9cd5feb4be453bc0371b0ed0a4c5b62238d60f28dc5d956f711c1d403d8024"
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 520 (2025) — Water Entity 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/HB0520.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0520 To HB0520S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0520S01 To HB0520S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB520H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB520H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB520H20.pdf)
7. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB520S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB520S20.pdf)
9. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0520S01.xml)
10. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0520S02.xml)
11. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0520.xml)

## Sponsors

- Snider, Casey — primary (person)
- Brammer, Brady — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18T15:57:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-18T15:57:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-18T16:48:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T17:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-20T15:53:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T18:02:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T16:17:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-26T16:18:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T21:27:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-26T21:27:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-28T18:40:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T18:41:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-03T21:35:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-03T21:40:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-03T21:40:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-04T00:29:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-04T16:42:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-06T17:07:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-06T17:50:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T17:51:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-06T22:55:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-06T22:56:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-06T22:58:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T22:58:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-07T00:16:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T00:16:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-07T00:39:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07T00:39:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T16:27:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T16:27:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T16:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T17:54:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T17:54:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:35:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:35:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T18:57:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T18:57:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:15:00+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/d222eae2-05a7-443e-9246-c7d4dfd484d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).