Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah HB151: Home Sales Amendments
Status: Failed, March 7, 2025
This bill establishes restrictions related to single-family homes.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
0 Home Sales Amendments 2025 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Gay Lynn Bennion Senate Sponsor: LONG TITLE General Description: This bill establishes restrictions related to single-family homes. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - defines terms; - requires a purchaser to sign an affidavit of intent to occupy when buying a single-family home within the first 30 days the single-family home is on the market, unless the seller incurs an exigent circumstance; and - requires that a purchaser record an affidavit of intent to occupy with a county recorder. Money Appropriated in this Bill: None Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: ENACTS: 57-1-48 , Utah Code Annotated 1953 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: Section 1, Section 57-1-48 is enacted to read: 57-1-48. Single-family home purchase restrictions. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Affidavit of intent to occupy" means an affidavit: (i) signed by a purchaser; and (ii) that states at least one purchaser intends to live in the single-family home as the purchaser's primary residence for at least one year after the day on which the purchaser purchases the single-family home. (b) "Affordable housing nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit corporation as defined in Section 16-6a-102 that was incorporated for the purpose of providing affordable housing. (c) "County of the first class" …
Sponsors
- Bennion, Gay (D) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : House/ filed
- : House/ strike enacting clause
- : House/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- : House Comm - Recommends Returned to Rules
- : House Comm - Not Considered
- : House/ to standing committee
- : Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- : House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- : House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- : House/ filed
Votes
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 25, 2025): 10 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Business, Real Estate, Real Property
Common questions
- What is HB151?
- HB151 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2025 General Session): Home Sales Amendments.
- What does HB151 do?
- This bill establishes restrictions related to single-family homes.
- What is the status of HB151?
- Failed as of March 7, 2025. Latest action: House/ filed (March 6, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB151?
- Bennion, Gay (D).
- Where is the official record for HB151?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0151.html
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