S.B. 20 Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Technical Changes

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This bill is a technical cleanup of Utah's natural resources laws that repeals outdated programs, reports, and statutes and makes other technical changes. It also updates the process for federal Bureau of Land Management land leases or sales and requires certain annual reports to a legislative committee by October 1.

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Every vote

• 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 20, 2026Who voted how
• 9 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 28, 2026Who voted how
• 71 yes, 1 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 4, 2026Who voted how

Hearings and debates

• Jan 20, 2026 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
  Transcript (7 turns)

  1. Senate President (presiding)31:05

     and Environment technical changes. Senator Stratton. Senator Stratton.

  2. Sen. Keven J. Stratton31:10

     Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this piece of legislation worked on by the, during the, during the interim, uh, great work by our staff. They do such a great job for us, but, uh, this is, it's a long bill as presented almost 90 pages, but actually reduces, there's a lot of reductions in our code through these amendments. Uh, addressing and repealing outdated reports, sections and processes, two changes that involved, it updates the BLM land lease or sales process line 1736 to 1820. And also where there has been a report required to give, uh, puts a deadline about October 1st of each year to make that, uh, report available. That's my presentation. Mr. President.

  3. Senate President (presiding)31:57

     Thank you Senator. There is no discussion to you for action.

  4. Sen. Keven J. Stratton32:04

     Thank you. With that again, expression of appreciation to our staff and, and the great professionals we have working with us and, and, and, uh, helping us. And with that, I move the question.

  5. Senate President (presiding)32:15

     Thank you. The question is under suspension of the role shall Senate Bill 20 pass Roll call Vote. Senator Vickers

  6. Senate clerk32:21

     Baldy Aye. Lewin Aye. Bramer Aye. Bus Comore Escamilla Aye. Fillmore Aye. Grover Harper Hankins Ipson Johnson. Quan McKay Aye. Mikel Aye. Milner Musselman Owens Aye. Pitcher Aye. Plum. A Rebe a sandal. Aye. Stevenson Aye. Stratton Vickers Aye. Weiler Aye. Wilson Aye. Winterton Aye.

  7. Senate President Adams (presiding)33:01

     President Adams Aye. Senate Bill 20, having received 28 yay votes, zero nay votes, one being absent passes his body and will be sent to the house for their consideration.

• Jan 28, 2026 House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
  Transcript (7 turns)

  1. Committee chair1:16:59

     he's gonna present the Natural Resources, agriculture and Environment Technical Changes Bill, uh, which is authorized by rule. So we'll turn the time over to you. Representative Ulbrich.

  2. Rep. Carl R. Albrecht1:17:15

     Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, HB or Senate Bill 20, excuse me, was a committee bill in the Natural Resources Ag and Environment, uh, interim committee this summer and fall. Uh, we did a lot of work on this, uh, staff, uh, made some cleanup changes. As you can see, it's a very long bill. Uh, natural resources code had not been updated for several years. I even hate to run a bill this long, but it is a cleanup bill. Just like we heard on the DWR one, which was cleaned up last year, uh, I'd be happy to try to answer any questions, but this bill passed unanimously after a lot of work and discussion out of our interim committee, uh, unanimously, uh, representative Stratton has passed it, uh, out of the Senate and it's come to this committee for the house. And I'm the house floor sponsor. Uh, it, you know, it addresses the obsolete programs and, and makes quite a few technical changes to the statutes, uh, within the purview of, uh, the, that interim committee and, uh, highlighted provisions. You can see what, what it does, it repeals a ton of stuff that was outdated, uh, and requires some annual reports to the legislative committee to be submitted no later than October 1st. Everything else you can see a lot of crossouts and red lines are, are repeal items, uh, that were repealed after discussion and, and work with the drafting attorney. And, uh, so with that, you know, Mr. Chair, I would entertain any questions from the committee?

  3. Committee chair1:19:09

     Okay. Thank you, representative. So I'll bring it to the committee for any clarifying questions. Scene, none. Uh, we'll close clarifying question. Go to public comment. Anybody in the public want to testify to this? Speak to it scene. None. We'll bring it back then to, we'll close public comment and bring it back to the pub to the committee for further discussion or a motion.

  4. Rep. Logan Monson1:19:41

     And I see Representative Monson. Yeah, I'd move that. We recommend Senate Bill 20 out of, um, our committee with a favorable recommendation.

  5. Committee chair1:19:51

     Do you wanna speak to that? Um, I was on interim committee

  6. Rep. Logan Monson1:19:54

     and, and have worked on some of these bills as well. It's just cleaning things up, putting old stuff, getting rid of some things clean up. No. So I I it's a good bill. Okay. It's a good bill. Okay.

  7. Committee chair1:20:06

     Uh, any further discussion to the bill? Seeing none. We're gonna take a, uh, uh, I'm going to repeat the motion. The motion is to pass out with a favorable recommendation, SB 20 Natural Resources, agriculture and Environment technical changes. Uh, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Say nay. Okay. I rule that passes unanimously. Representative.

• Feb 4, 2026 House floor debate▶ Watch
  Transcript (4 turns)

  1. Unknown speaker36:02speaker not certain

     and Environment Technical Changes by Senator Stratton. This bill was heard in Natural Resources, agriculture and Environment with the voter 9 0 5.

  2. Speaker (presiding)36:10

     The House sponsors Representative Albrecht. Representative Albrecht.

  3. Rep. Carl R. Albrecht36:14

     Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this bill is just a code reduction. Uh, we had a, a lot of technical changes that were outdated. Uh, it re it uh, removes the language related to the BLM on line 1736 through 1820. Uh, the purpose of this was to remove, uh, obsolete sections within the purview of natural resources, ag and Environment and other legislative committees. It doesn't make any changes except for removing obsolete sections. And it requires a report to be written and submitted by August 31st each year. This is the first, uh, technical change cleanup bill that we've had in code in that committee for a long time. So, um, I apologize for the length, but most of it is boilerplate language. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

  4. Speaker (presiding)37:14

     Thank you, Representative Albrecht discussion to the bill. None. Back to your Representative Albrecht for summation, I'll Waive summation has been waived. Voting will now be open on SB 20. Representative Monson, would you like to vote? Representative Voxer. Representative Arthur to vote Seeing all President having voted voting is now closed. SB 20 passes this body with 71 yes votes one no vote and will be signed by the speaker and sent to the Senate for the signature of the president. Madam Reading Clerk