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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah prohibits private energy users from using eminent domain for certain single-customer pipelines
Last action · March 6, 2026: Senate/ filedSponsors: Scott Sandall and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill modifies the right to exercise eminent domain for energy users.
Private property owners facing potential condemnation face new legal protections against land acquisition for single-source energy pipelines, altering how independent power generators secure infrastructure routes.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Private energy generators
Private entities producing electricity are barred from utilizing eminent domain to acquire land rights for single-user or self-use energy generation pipelines.
Property owners
Landowners gain protection from having their property condemned through eminent domain for private, single-beneficiary energy pipelines.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · passed the Senate · on the House floor.
Procedural history
39 actions- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026SenateSenate/ received from House
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ to Senate
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ strike enacting clause
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ circled
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- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
- Mar 5, 2026HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
- Mar 5, 2026HouseHouse/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- Mar 4, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Mar 3, 2026HouseHouse/ received from Senate
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ to House
- Mar 3, 2026SenateFloorSenate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ substituted
- Mar 3, 2026SenateSenate/ uncircled
- Mar 3, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for SB0231S02
- Mar 3, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for SB0231S02
- Mar 3, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for SB0231S02
- Mar 3, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for SB0231S02
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate/ circled
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
- Mar 2, 2026SenateSenate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- Feb 26, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for SB0231S01
- Feb 26, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for SB0231S01
- Feb 25, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for SB0231S01
- Feb 25, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for SB0231S01
- Feb 5, 2026SenateSenate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- Feb 5, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for SB0231
- Feb 4, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for SB0231
- Feb 3, 2026SenateCommitteeSenate/ to standing committee
- Feb 2, 2026SenateIntroducedSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Feb 2, 2026SenateSenate/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for SB0231
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for SB0231
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Jan 30, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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