republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2023/sb-53.md

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Bill	S.B. 53 Groundwater Use Amendments	S.B. 53 Groundwater Use Amendments	us/states/ut	Utah Legislature	2023	SB 53	Utah SB 53 (2023)	bill	Natural Resources Water	enacted	Vickers, Evan J.	2	35	5	2022-12-23	2023-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/6ba7da3e-e2fb-417a-a131-cee6031fb7b3	https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0053.html	e9c739d58c914d67aa4315ee58b5dcfbfdce14cedb319136d3bdf81bc78dbc8a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ut

Utah SB 53 (2023) — S.B. 53 Groundwater Use Amendments

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• passed 3rd reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• passed 3rd reading — 27–0 (pass) · upper
• passed 2nd reading — 26–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
• Albrecht, Carl R. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-12-23 Bill Numbered but not Distributed
• 2022-12-23 Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
• 2023-01-11 received bill from Legislative Research receipt
• 2023-01-11 received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst receipt
• 2023-01-17 1st reading (Introduced) introduction, reading-1
• 2023-01-17 to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
• 2023-01-19 Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-20 committee report favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-20 placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
• 2023-01-25 to Printing with fiscal note
• 2023-01-31 2nd reading reading-2
• 2023-01-31 substituted from # 0 to # 1 substitution
• 2023-01-31 passed 2nd reading reading-2
• 2023-02-01 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-02-01 passed 3rd reading passage
• 2023-02-01 to House
• 2023-02-01 received from Senate receipt
• 2023-02-01 1st reading (Introduced) introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-02 to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
• 2023-02-07 House Comm - Favorable Recommendation committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-08 committee report favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-02-08 2nd reading reading-2
• 2023-02-09 3rd reading reading-3
• 2023-02-09 passed 3rd reading passage
• 2023-02-09 signed by Speaker/returned to Senate passage
• 2023-02-09 to Senate
• 2023-02-09 received from House receipt
• 2023-02-09 signed by President/sent for enrolling passage
• 2023-02-14 Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
• 2023-02-14 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
• 2023-03-09 Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate enrolled
• 2023-03-09 enrolled bill to Printing
• 2023-03-13 received enrolled bill from Printing receipt
• 2023-03-13 to Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-03-14 Governor Signed executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ba7da3e-e2fb-417a-a131-cee6031fb7b3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).