---
type: "Bill"
title: "Water Rights Restricted Account"
description: "Water Rights Restricted Account"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 174"
citation: "Utah HB 174 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Water", "Water Rights"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Albrecht, Carl R."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 32
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-10T22:22:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T03:24:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c6844c7-5cc0-4022-a391-f2a520e35100"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0174.html"
source_hash: "c652e2f1c92efde5b45cd5a2b365e6cc0ff89333a6e2e1751198ac105ad9778e"
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 174 (2025) — Water Rights Restricted Account

## 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/HB0174.xml)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB174H10.pdf)
3. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB174H10.pdf)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB174S10.pdf)
5. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB174S10.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0174.xml)

## Sponsors

- Albrecht, Carl R. — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-10T22:22:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-10T22:22:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T19:16:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:10:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:29:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-29T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03T21:37:00+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
- **2025-02-11T21:59:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-11T22:01:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-11T22:02:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-11T23:15:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-12T18:09:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-14T17:12:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T23:26:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T23:27:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2025-02-20T17:22:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-02-20T17:22:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T17:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T17:26:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T17:26:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-25T17:26:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T19:13:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T19:14:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-27T14:53:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-27T14:53:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-05T00:29:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05T00:29:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-05T19:39:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T19:39:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-20T03:24:00+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/5c6844c7-5cc0-4022-a391-f2a520e35100`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).