2025 bills / S.B. 36
S.B. 36 Water Quality Board Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill lets members of the Utah Water Quality Board hold a mediated settlement conference between the director and a party accused of violating the Utah Water Quality Act. It also allows board members to recommend a reasonable penalty amount to the director.
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Official description
- establishes a process for members of the Utah Water Quality Board to conduct a mediated settlement conference between the director and a party in alleged violation of the Utah Water Quality Act
- authorizes members of the Utah Water Quality Board to recommend a reasonable penalty amount to the director
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 36 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 36 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
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 29 yes, 0 noFinal Senate vote · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 63 yes, 0 no, 12 absentFinal House vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Feb 12, 2025 House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- 21/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Apr 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Apr 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 19/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch