---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Rights Recording Amendments"
description: "Water Rights Recording Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "Utah SB 33 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Water", "Water Rights"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-20T00:23:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:22:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4c897f5-f751-4ba1-bee6-ebbb729db9d1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0033.html"
source_hash: "c8133fb773253ebd8fd158df37d659477788cd974af651cbd6cc78c5714a47f1"
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 33 (2025) — Water Rights Recording 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/SB0033.xml)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB033H10.pdf)
3. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB033H10.pdf)
4. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB033S10.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0033.xml)

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Shipp, Rex P. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-20T00:23:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-12-20T00:23:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-02T17:00:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-16T17:26:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-01-21T22:54:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-01-21T22:57:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-01-21T22:57:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-01-22T17:40:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-01-22T18:11:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-29T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03T22:06:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04T18:15:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-04T18:15:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-05T18:46:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-05T18:49:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-05T18:49:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-05T18:49:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-06T18:08:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-06T18:08:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-08T00:07:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-02-08T00:07:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-02-19T23:24:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-02-19T23:24:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T20:30:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:30:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:22:00+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/c4c897f5-f751-4ba1-bee6-ebbb729db9d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).