2025 bills / H.B. 492
H.B. 492 Drinking Water Utilities Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would require community water systems to complete a security plan and to report any security breach to the Utah Cyber Center within two hours of discovering it. It would also require the Division of Drinking Water to report yearly to two legislative committees on water system security, and keep each system's security plan protected from public release.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires a community water system to:
- complete a security plan
- report a security breach to the Utah Cyber Center within two hours of discovering the security breach
- requires the Division of Drinking Water to report annually to two legislative committees on security at community water systems
- classifies a community water system's security plan as a protected record
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 492 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 492 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
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: Consent Calendar Recommendation · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how