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Committee advances a package of natural-resources bills; HB89, HB115, SB30, HB94 and HB138 move out with favorable recommendations
Summary
Committee members advanced a series of technical and policy bills addressing water-share transfers, state-park funding, interstate firefighting compacts, custom slaughter rules and food-labeling clarifications.
The Natural Resources and Environment Committee considered several short-form items and votes during the hearing and moved a bundle of bills to the House floor with favorable recommendations.
Water shares and probate (HB89): Representative Bennion presented HB89, which would remove mutual-irrigation "water shares" from the state—s small-estate affidavit transfer process and require probate for transfers where title is in dispute. Emily Lewis, an attorney with Clyde, Snow and Sessions, told the committee the change protects small canal-company volunteer boards from liability and fraudulent transfers because market valuations for water shares are difficult to obtain. The Utah Farm Bureau—s Terry Camp testified in support. Representative Bolander moved a first substitute and then moved that the committee pass HB89, first substitute, with a favorable recommendation; the motions passed by voice vote and the transcript records the measure as advancing out of committee.
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