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2026 floor votes

H.B. 437: Environmental Permitting Amendments

2 recorded floor votes in the 2026 General Session. The bill's official page has its text, sponsors, committee votes and full history.

About this bill

Signed by the governor on March 25, 2026. This bill creates a program for the expedited review of environmental permit applications.

  • Defines terms
  • Authorizes the Department of Environmental Quality (department) and Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining (division) to make rules to: identify a permit administered by the department or division as a permit eligible for expedited review; establish requirements for the expedited review process; certify a qualified reviewer; authorize a qualified reviewer to complete an expedited review of an eligible permit; and establish the maximum number of a days for a qualified reviewer to complete an expedited review
  • Requires the department and division to conduct a technical review and make a final administrative decision for a permit application upon completion of an expedited review
  • Makes technical and conforming changes

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor David Shallenberger

Utah House, February 20, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · HB 437
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 67 Nays 0 N/V 8
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (63)

49 Republican, 14 Democratic

Absent or not voting (8)

8 Republican

Utah Senate, March 4, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules · HB 437
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 23 Nays 6 Abs 0
Official record

Yes (23)

22 Republican, 1 Forward

No (6)

6 Democratic

Votes are listed as the Utah Legislature's floor vote records show them. Names are matched to today's roster, so members who have since left the Legislature aren't in the lists; the totals are the record's own. Committee votes and voice votes aren't included.