---
type: "Bill"
title: "Railroad and Transportation Amendments"
description: "Railroad and Transportation Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 253"
citation: "Utah SB 253 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture & Food", "Animals", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Department of Transportation", "Livestock", "Railroads", "Right of Way", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 16
action_count: 42
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-10T22:47:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:52:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8047ca95-d961-4e8d-8b05-2ade0bee8c23"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0253.html"
source_hash: "03376676ab36229725847072dc5806905d0b1ada294764d8b4b51aca1e47bee3"
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 253 (2025) — Railroad and Transportation 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/SB0253.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0253 To SB0253S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0253S01 To SB0253S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0253S02 To SB0253S03.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0253S03 To SB0253S04.pdf)
6. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB253H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB253H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB253H20.pdf)
9. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB253S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB253S10.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB253S20.pdf)
12. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0253S01.xml)
13. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0253S02.xml)
14. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0253S03.xml)
15. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0253S04.xml)
16. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0253.xml)

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Snider, Casey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10T22:47:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-10T22:47:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-11T14:43:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-11T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-13T16:58:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T17:24:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T23:02:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:27:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:27:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T21:34:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T21:38:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T18:05:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24T18:07:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-24T18:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-24T19:44:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T21:10:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T00:20:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T17:18:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T17:18:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07T01:57:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T01:57:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-07T21:46:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T21:47:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-07T21:51:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:51:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T23:34:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T23:34:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T01:07:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T01:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T02:32:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:45:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:34:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T05:34:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-14T14:27:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-14T14:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:52:00+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/8047ca95-d961-4e8d-8b05-2ade0bee8c23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).