All Roll Calls
Yes: 165 • No: 25
UtahH.B. 2022025 General SessionHouseWALLET
Private Landowner Big Game Revisions
Sponsored By: Carl R. Albrecht (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Land UseNatural ResourcesWildlifeHunting
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Landowner groups get annual hunting vouchers
Beginning May 7, 2025, Utah provides annual hunting vouchers through registered landowner groups that cooperate on wildlife management and public access. Groups need Wildlife Board registration, and enrolled land must provide deer, elk, or pronghorn habitat without joining another private-land permit program. The division multiplies each group’s share of the unit’s habitat acres by the previous year’s public-draw permits. It rounds decimals of .49 or less down and .50 or more up, provides at least one base voucher, and adds one extra voucher annually. A landowner or eligible transferee can use a voucher to buy a hunting permit; the law does not set permit prices.
Larger landowners get extra elk vouchers
Beginning May 7, 2025, qualifying owners of 4,000–8,999 contiguous acres can receive up to two extra bull elk vouchers annually. These are separate from the regular draw’s 5% allocation, and the division sets the number. The division reviews numbers every three years and can reduce or end extra vouchers when average harvested bull age falls below the unit’s management goal. Exclusions cover land or owners in units with a landowners association on May 7, 2025, and association members on that date. They also cover land or owners with an option to join a cooperative wildlife management unit, or in a unit registered before May 7, 2025.
Private landowners get elk voucher draws
Beginning May 7, 2025, Utah offers an annual bull elk voucher draw for owners of 640–8,999 contiguous private acres in a limited-entry elk unit. Owners can apply for one voucher per complete 640-acre block; all owners must agree, and blocks cannot appear in multiple applications. Land in a cooperative wildlife management unit or landowners association program is excluded; the division verifies ownership, acreage, and seasonal elk habitat, with approval continuing unless ownership, acreage, or habitat changes. Vouchers equal 5% of the unit’s public-draw bull permits, split equally between owners with 640–3,999 acres and 4,000–8,999 acres; odd extras alternate between larger owners in odd years and smaller owners in even years, while a single voucher goes to smaller owners. Vouchers can be sold, donated, or transferred to legally eligible hunters, who must buy a permit and hunt only the applicant’s qualifying land using one board-approved weapon during its season.
Participating landowners lose wildlife damage claims
Beginning May 7, 2025, receiving a bull elk voucher blocks the applicant from getting a depredation bull elk permit. It also blocks wildlife-damage compensation claims for the applicant’s private land in that elk unit during the same fiscal year. Separately, landowners participating in the association program cannot claim compensation for big game damage to enrolled land. The association restriction applies through participation, not just during a year when a landowner receives a voucher.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Carl R. Albrecht
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Evan J. Vickers
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/7/2025
House/ concurs with Senate amendment
Yes: 57 • No: 10
Senate vote • 3/7/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
Yes: 17 • No: 8
Senate vote • 2/27/2025
Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/27/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 3 • No: 1
House vote • 2/21/2025
House/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/21/2025
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/21/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 59 • No: 6
House vote • 2/20/2025
House/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 12 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2025
House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 12 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/19/2025House/ to Governor
3/12/2025HouseHouse/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/12/2025HouseHouse/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/11/2025HouseEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/11/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/7/2025Bill Received from House for Enrolling
3/7/2025House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/7/2025HouseSenate/ to House
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ signed by President/ returned to House
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/7/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ concurs with Senate amendment
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/7/2025HouseSenate/ to House with amendments
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
3/6/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
3/5/2025SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
2/27/2025SenateSenate/ comm rpt/ substituted
2/27/2025SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/27/2025SenateSenate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
2/27/2025Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/11/2025
Substitute #4
2/26/2025
Amended 2/21/2025 16:02:845
2/21/2025
Substitute #3
2/7/2025
Substitute #2
2/6/2025
Substitute #1
1/27/2025
Introduced
1/14/2025