2025 bills / H.B. 520
H.B. 520 Water Entity Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill removes certain water agencies from the definition of an independent entity and expands the Great Salt Lake Trust Council's duties over the lake's water trust. It also requires the state water agent to coordinate with the Department of Natural Resources, moves the Great Salt Lake commissioner's office into that department, and has the council review certain commissioner spending.
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Official description
- removes certain water agencies from a definition of an independent entity
- modifies provisions governing the water trust for the Great Salt Lake, including expanding the duties of the Great Salt Lake Trust Council
- requires the state water agent to coordinate with the Department of Natural Resources (department)
- moves the Great Salt Lake commissioner and the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner to be within the department
- requires the review by the Great Salt Lake Trust Council of certain expenditures of the Great Salt Lake commissioner
- makes technical and conforming amendments
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 520 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 520 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
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 2 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how