2025 | Bills of Interest

This bill addresses water quality in groundwater; encourages monitoring of watersheds; promotes state water planning; accounts for regionally appropriate water reuse.

This bill addresses duties of owners or operators of ditches and canals.

This bill addresses time frames related to reinstatement of a lapsed application.

This bill repeals language regarding livestock water use certificate; addresses when a federal land management agency reduces livestock grazing animal unit month; addresses a claim under Public Water Reserve No. 107.

This bill prohibits adding fluoride to public water systems; requires the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to issue standing prescription drug orders for fluoride supplements and requires a pharmacist who dispenses fluoride supplements to a patient to provide patient counseling.

Prohibits the transfer of water shares via small estate probate procedures involving an affidavit.

This bill addresses money for obtaining legal support.

This bill allows the Agricultural Water Optimization Committee to use certain money to fund research and modifies eligibility requirements related to grants for agricultural water optimization.

This bill provides circumstances of when a municipality may set different water rates based in part on water conservation; addresses impact fees and impact fee facilities plans related to water; addresses rate setting by a retail water supplier; provides for how revenues from retail rates may be spent; creates a presumption regarding the reasonableness of certain water rates that include water conservation as an element in determining the rate; modifies provisions related to the Board of Water Resources and addresses tiered rates for secondary water.

This bill repeals the Water Resources Cities Water Loan Fund and provides that loan repayments go to the Water Infrastructure Fund; authorizes transfers of money in water funds and accounts to and from the Water Infrastructure Fund; requires capital asset management plans and reserve funding under certain circumstances; addresses the water infrastructure prioritization process, including exemptions from the process.

This bill requires a municipality or a county to require compliance with a prohibition on use of overhead spray irrigation as part of land use approvals; requires a municipality or county to give notice of the prohibition on use of overhead spray irrigation; encourages a municipality or county to review certain plans, act on the plans, inspect for compliance and address non-compliance and prohibits for new development and redevelopment the use of overhead spray irrigation.

Prohibits certain activities related to spray sprinkler bodies; provides exceptions and creates an enforcement process.

Requires a community water system to complete a security plan and report a security breach to the Utah Cyber Center within two hours of discovering the 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.

Requires a retail water supplier to provide certain notifications regarding water usage. Requires a secondary water supplier to provide certain notifications regarding water usage, with exceptions.

Expresses support for the transfer of federal water infrastructure to the Grand County Water Conservancy District.

Allows certain signatures to be by facsimile or electronic means.

This bill establishes a process for the Utah Water Quality Board to review settlement negotiations between the Director and a party in alleged violation of the Utah Water Quality reasonable penalty in ongoing settlement negotiations.

Requires the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a fee schedule; outlines requirements related to the fee schedule; allows the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a financial incentive to comply with certain criteria; provides for the collection of fees; creates an exemption related to wholesale water suppliers; provides that fees are treated as dedicated credits and requires monitoring of fees.

This bill makes a record of water data regarding golf courses prepared for and provided to the Utah State University Institute of Land, Air, and Water pursuant to statute a protected record under the Government Records Access and Management Act; requires a study of water use by golf courses; outlines a process to be followed in conducting and reporting on the study; requires the Division of State Parks to develop a master plan for state-owned golf courses and to report on the master plan.

Permits a commitment of available water to uses on sovereign lands to be included in a water conservation plan.

Imposes landscaping requirements related to state government facilities.