All Roll Calls
Yes: 133 • No: 0
UtahH.B. 2392025 General SessionHouse
Disaster Funds Revisions
Sponsored By: Carl R. Albrecht (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Emergency ManagementHealth and Human ServicesLaw Enforcement and Criminal JusticeLegislative OperationsLegislative Committees and Task ForcesLegislative OrganizationPublic SafetyDepartment of Government OperationsGovernment Operations (State Issues)AppropriationsDivision of Finance
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Communities face fewer disaster grant costs
Effective May 7, 2025, the law removes mandatory local cost-sharing as a stated condition for disaster response and recovery grants. Grants can help disaster-affected individuals, public facilities, and public infrastructure. Applications require a presidential, state, or local disaster declaration and an official local damage assessment. The Division of Emergency Management must find funding necessary and appropriate, and money must be available. Communities must still accept the division’s funding terms, including its minimum threshold payment amount; that requirement remains.
Communities gain funding to reduce disaster risks
Utah can use leftover disaster account money for community projects that reduce future disaster risks. Money must remain at fiscal year-end after disaster response and recovery spending or commitments. Spending must leave at least $5 million in the account. Communities must apply during the current fiscal year and meet the division’s qualification and priority rules. The governor must approve the spending, and the division must provide written notice and the required report.
Utah expands funding for disaster response
Utah raises its annual emergency disaster services spending threshold from $500,000 to $3 million before higher-level approval is required. Spending or commitments above $3 million through $10 million require governor approval, notice within 72 hours, and reporting. Above $10 million, governor approval and Executive Appropriations Committee review are required. Beginning July 1, 2025, an annual year-end transfer also replenishes the new Disaster Response, Recovery, and Mitigation Restricted Account. Transfers come from the State Disaster Recovery Restricted Account when its balance exceeds $50 million. The transfer equals the excess above $50 million or $10 million, whichever is less.
Utah updates local emergency loan funding
Utah updates the transfer calculation that supports its Local Government Emergency Response Loan Fund. Under the rule applying from July 1, 2020 onward, the transfer rate is 10%. The law bases that calculation on the full specified transfer to the State Disaster Recovery Restricted Account, not just one component. The dollar amount depends on that underlying transfer; this is loan-fund financing, not a household grant.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Carl R. Albrecht
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Michael K. McKell
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/27/2025
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 26 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/26/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/26/2025
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/18/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 3 • No: 0
House vote • 2/11/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 73 • No: 0
House vote • 2/3/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ uncircled
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
3/7/2025HouseEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/7/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/3/2025Bill Received from House for Enrolling
3/3/2025House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
2/27/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
2/27/2025HouseSenate/ to House
2/27/2025SenateSenate/ signed by President/ returned to House
2/27/2025SenateSenate/ passed 3rd reading
2/27/2025SenateSenate/ 3rd reading
2/27/2025SenateSenate/ passed 2nd reading
2/26/2025SenateSenate/ uncircled
2/26/2025SenateSenate/ circled
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd reading
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
2/19/2025SenateSenate/ committee report favorable
2/19/2025SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/18/2025SenateSenate/ to standing committee
2/14/2025SenateSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
2/12/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
2/11/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/11/2025HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/11/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/7/2025
Introduced
1/16/2025