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Utah's rules for secondary water metering and billing would be expanded under this bill, requiring secondary water suppliers to update older contracts (entered before July 1, 2025) that don't yet allow for meter-based, tiered-rate billing, using their "best efforts" to modify those agreements; suppliers could also make these obligations binding on future property owners through covenants that legally run with the land, meaning a new buyer would automatically inherit the water contract terms. To help track ownership changes, secondary water suppliers could register with county recorders to automatically receive monthly reports listing properties in their service area that have recently changed hands, including parcel numbers and buyer/seller names. Separately, starting January 1, 2027, the bill would require public water systems and wastewater service providers to meet a "local investment requirement"—a minimum amount of local revenue, calculated by a state council using local median income and number of service connections—before they can qualify for state water infrastructure funding, though systems serving 3,300 or fewer people could seek an exemption if meeting the requirement would create undue hardship. These local investment requirement provisions are newly added in this version of the bill; the underlying metering, billing, and contract-modification provisions largely carry over from before, with added detail on how contracts must be updated and how property-transfer reporting would work.