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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah requires retail water suppliers to adopt tiered residential water rates and conservation pricing by 2027
Last action · March 6, 2026: House/ filedSponsor: Doug Owens
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What This Bill Proposed
s in Utah must establish rate structures featuring for residential customers by July 1, 2027, with higher prices for excessive usage to encourage conservation. The legislation mandates that rate tiers include specific blocks for efficient indoor use, efficient mixed use, and wasteful use, while prohibiting investor-owned utilities from using conservation-pricing revenue to pay dividends.
Residential water customers face changing billing structures that raise prices as usage increases into higher tiers, while smaller public water systems with 500 or fewer connections remain exempt from mandatory compliance.
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.
retail water suppliers
Retail water suppliers must redesign culinary water rate structures to include increasing block units and incorporate water conservation efforts by July 1, 2027.
residential culinary water customers
for-profit public water systems
For-profit water systems are restricted from using revenue generated from conservation pricing in the highest usage block to pay dividends or profits to investors.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When do residential water suppliers have to implement the new tiered rate structures?
Do small water systems have to follow these rules?
Can private, for-profit water utilities make a profit off the conservation rate tiers?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
11 actions- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ strike enacting clause
- Jan 20, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Jan 20, 2026HouseHouse/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- Jan 16, 2026ReleasedLFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0155
- Jan 16, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0155
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- Jan 14, 2026HouseHouse/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Jan 6, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0155
- Jan 6, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0155
- Jan 6, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Jan 6, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
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Mandatory Conservation Pricing for Residential Water
Shifts Utah water utility pricing from flat or simple structures toward mandatory tiered pricing tied explicitly to conservation goals and volumetric thresholds.
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Sources
le.utah.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy35Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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