---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mineral Rights Amendments"
description: "Mineral Rights Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Utah SB 139 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Eminent Domain", "Energy", "Fossil Fuels", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Mineral Lease Funds", "Mining", "Natural Resources", "Public Lands", "Real Estate", "Real Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Winterton, Ronald M."]
version_count: 17
action_count: 43
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T18:08:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:42:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac7cf2f2-af15-4373-97d4-57010a26b0e2"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0139.html"
source_hash: "d024a65e11d36d4b38a502d1bc7d5ceff52bbf799f0b51ae9d21f0deef9923ea"
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 SB 139 (2025) — Mineral Rights 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/SB0139.xml)
2. **Amended 2/24/2025 11:02:230** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0139S03_2025-02-24_11-06-11.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/24/2025 11:02:230** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0139S03_2025-02-24_11-06-11.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0139 To SB0139S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0139S01 To SB0139S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0139S02 To SB0139S03.pdf)
7. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB139H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB139H10.pdf)
9. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB139H20.pdf)
10. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0139S03.Samd.1.pdf)
11. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB139S10.pdf)
12. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB139S10.pdf)
13. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB139S20.pdf)
14. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0139S01.xml)
15. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0139S02.xml)
16. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0139S03.xml)
17. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0139.xml)

## Sponsors

- Winterton, Ronald M. — primary (person)
- Christofferson, Kay J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T18:08:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T18:08:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:59:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-23T16:50:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-23T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T21:54:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-01-28T22:04:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30T18:14:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-01-30T18:14:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-04T22:12:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-04T22:15:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T21:17:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-05T21:19:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-05T21:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-05T22:41:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-06T18:06:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-21T17:56:00+00:00** Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- **2025-02-21T18:13:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T16:54:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-24T16:55:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-24T16:56:00+00:00** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2025-02-24T21:12:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended/ placed on Consent Cal `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-24T21:12:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-26T17:24:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26T17:27:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T17:27:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T21:55:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T21:55:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-02-27T17:56:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T17:56:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-28T01:11:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T01:11:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-03T15:02:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-03T15:02:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-07T14:54:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07T14:54:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:00:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:00:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:42:00+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/ac7cf2f2-af15-4373-97d4-57010a26b0e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).