---
type: "Bill"
title: "Drinking Water Utilities Amendments"
description: "Drinking Water Utilities Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Utah HB 19 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Data and Cyber Security", "Drinking Water", "Environment", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack, Colin W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-09-18T17:03:03+00:00"
last_action: "2026-02-27T21:49:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb9acbe2-77a0-471f-8985-919005410238"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/HB0019.html"
source_hash: "fa3a7fbc5e2e0dff676e2abf494dea80e9e1113fa08ab00e640f45635286a3ed"
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 19 (2026) — Drinking Water Utilities 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/2026/bills/introduced/HB0019.xml)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/enrolled/HB0019.xml)

## Votes

- House/ passed 3rd reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate/ passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate/ passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jack, Colin W. — primary (person)
- Balderree, Heidi — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-18T17:03:03+00:00** LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0019
- **2025-09-18T17:03:03+00:00** LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0019
- **2025-10-14T15:33:45+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0019
- **2025-12-04T23:18:04+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-12-04T23:18:04+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2026-01-08T20:52:48+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0019
- **2026-01-09T14:59:18+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0019
- **2026-01-14T20:36:34+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2026-01-14T21:19:49+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2026-01-20T17:43:19+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-01-20T18:20:03+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2026-01-20T18:21:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2026-01-20T22:49:24+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2026-01-20T22:53:18+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-01-20T22:53:20+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2026-01-21T00:14:11+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2026-01-21T18:19:42+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-01-23T18:12:01+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-27T21:54:11+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29T18:43:59+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-29T18:44:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-04T21:33:25+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2026-02-04T21:36:01+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-05T18:31:04+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2026-02-05T18:33:29+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-02-05T18:33:30+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2026-02-05T18:33:31+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2026-02-05T20:10:59+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-05T20:11:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2026-02-09T17:14:26+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2026-02-09T17:14:27+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2026-02-20T23:20:41+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2026-02-20T23:20:45+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2026-02-24T23:32:50+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2026-02-24T23:32:52+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-02-27T21:49:02+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/bb9acbe2-77a0-471f-8985-919005410238`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).