SB 131 Utah Senate · 2025 General Session

Water Commitment Amendments

SB 131 amends Utah’s water conservation plan requirements to allow water providers (like municipal utilities and water districts) to include commitments of available water for Great Salt Lake uses in their conservation plans. This change specifically adds "the commitment of available water to uses on the Great Salt Lake" as an optional provision within existing conservation plan frameworks. The bill makes no new funding commitments and only adjusts technical language in Utah Code Section 73-10-32. It does not create new obligations but expands what water providers may voluntarily include in their plans to address water conservation.
Bill status passed 3 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Jan 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Mar 8, 2025
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Introduced Substitute #1 · 4 edits
MODERATE
This bill substitutes the original text of SB 131 with a revised version that primarily corrects formatting errors and clarifies the bill's purpose. The most substantive change is updating the highlighted provisions to specify that water commitments for the Great Salt Lake (rather than general sovereign lands) can be included in water conservation plans. The actual statutory language remains largely unchanged from the original version.
Scope change
The bill's scope is narrowed from allowing water commitments for any sovereign lands to specifically allowing commitments for the Great Salt Lake.
SCOPE

Changed the highlighted provision from permitting water commitments to uses on 'sovereign lands' to specifically permitting commitments to uses on the 'Great Salt Lake'.

TECHNICAL

Removed redundant and conflicting subsection numbering (such as duplicate (b) and (xi) labels) and corrected formatting inconsistencies throughout the bill text.

Added House Sponsor name (Hoang Nguyen) and updated document headers to reflect the substitute bill format.

Removed the original effective date section (Section 2) which stated the bill would take effect on May 7, 2025.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Feb 6, 2025
Introduced
House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
lower
Feb 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
lower
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate/ committee report favorable
upper
Jan 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
upper
Jan 23, 2025
Committee
Senate/ to standing committee
upper
Jan 21, 2025
Introduced
Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
upper
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor

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