---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Rights Amendments"
description: "Water Rights Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 60"
citation: "Utah HB 60 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Public Lands", "Sovereign Lands", "State Engineer", "Water", "Water Rights"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shallenberger, David"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-22T19:54:36+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-23T14:51:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b1807c2-ad7b-422c-a3c2-45b2bad59b89"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/HB0060.html"
source_hash: "7e70f77fab6e9ea2f4d43a664cd0a08cf202bd94e030abf981812315039b04cf"
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 60 (2026) — Water 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/2026/bills/introduced/HB0060.xml)
2. **Comparison to Original Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/introduced/CP HB0060 To HB0060S01.pdf)
3. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/introduced/HB0060S01.xml)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/enrolled/HB0060.xml)

## Votes

- House/ passed 3rd reading — **54–17** (pass) · lower
- Senate/ passed 3rd reading — **18–7** (pass) · upper
- Senate/ passed 2nd reading — **15–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shallenberger, David — primary (person)
- Stratton, Keven J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-22T19:54:36+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-12-22T19:54:36+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-12-22T19:54:41+00:00** LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0060
- **2025-12-22T19:54:41+00:00** LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0060
- **2026-01-05T20:14:25+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0060
- **2026-01-05T20:14:27+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0060
- **2026-01-14T20:41:51+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2026-01-14T21:21:49+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2026-01-20T17:43:19+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-01-20T18:31:30+00:00** House/ to standing committee [House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23T22:54:20+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation [House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-26T18:16:20+00:00** House/ committee report favorable [House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-01-26T18:16:21+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2026-02-02T14:26:39+00:00** LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0060S01
- **2026-02-02T14:26:39+00:00** LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0060S01
- **2026-02-03T16:02:48+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0060S01
- **2026-02-03T16:02:49+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0060S01
- **2026-02-03T21:28:22+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2026-02-03T21:29:21+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2026-02-03T21:40:10+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-02-03T21:40:12+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2026-02-03T22:42:03+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2026-02-04T18:14:03+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-02-05T21:12:24+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12T22:39:51+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-17T17:38:27+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-17T17:38:28+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-18T22:26:09+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2026-02-18T22:31:33+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T18:01:38+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2026-02-19T18:01:57+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2026-02-20T18:19:07+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2026-02-20T18:21:46+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-02-20T18:21:47+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2026-02-20T18:21:48+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2026-02-20T19:20:42+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-20T19:20:43+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2026-02-24T16:38:36+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2026-02-24T16:38:39+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2026-02-25T17:37:50+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2026-02-25T17:37:53+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2026-03-03T19:09:04+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2026-03-03T19:09:06+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-23T14:51:00+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/8b1807c2-ad7b-422c-a3c2-45b2bad59b89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).