2025 bills / H.B. 311
H.B. 311 Watershed Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
It clarifies when a water commissioner is treated as a full-time employee eligible for health and retirement benefits and exempt from state personnel law. It lets the Utah water agent include facilities and land in negotiations for water augmentation projects, lets the Board of Water Resources contract for those projects, and changes Legislative Water Development Commission membership rules.
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Official description
- defines terms
- clarifies when a water commissioner is:
- treated as a regular full-time employee
- eligible for health and retirement benefits
- exempt from the Utah State Personnel Management Act
- allows the Utah water agent to include facilities and land in the state water agent's negotiations for water augmentation projects
- allows the Board of Water Resources to enter into contracts for water augmentation projects negotiated by the Utah water agent
- modifies the membership requirements for the Legislative Water Development Commission
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 311 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 311 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 1 no, 2 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 4 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 13, 2025 House Public Utilities and Energy Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 27, 2025 Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- 20/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- 21/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Jul 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch