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+type: "Bill"
+title: "H.B. 261 Renewable Energy Amendments"
+description: "H.B. 261 Renewable Energy Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "H.B. 261"
+citation: "Utah H.B. 261 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Utilities", "Renewable Energy"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Knotwell, John"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-29"
+last_action: "2018-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/767c5873-3362-42a8-872a-fe8259140301"
+source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0261.html"
+source_hash: "d9ffd4b672db10a0ba6be668c3711a0820f2aa87af41fc9ab26c2eb1ac9e6848"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
+---
+
+# Utah H.B. 261 (2018) — H.B. 261 Renewable Energy Amendments
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillint/HB0261S01.pdf)
+2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0261S01.pdf)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0261.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–2** (pass) · legislature
+- House Comm - Held — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Knotwell, John — primary (person)
+- Bramble, Curtis S. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2018-01-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2018-01-29** received bill from Legislative Research
+- **2018-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
+- **2018-02-02** to House Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** House Comm - Held
+- **2018-02-12** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
+- **2018-02-12** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-02-12** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2018-02-13** comm rpt/substituted
+- **2018-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-23** circled
+- **2018-02-27** uncircled
+- **2018-02-27** floor amendment # 3
+- **2018-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2018-02-27** to Senate
+- **2018-02-28** received from House
+- **2018-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2018-02-28** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2018-03-07** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
+- **2018-03-08** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2018-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2018-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2018-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
+- **2018-03-08** to House
+- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
+- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
+- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2018-03-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
+- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-19** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/767c5873-3362-42a8-872a-fe8259140301`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+