---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 238 Payment of Wages Act Amendments"
description: "H.B. 238 Payment of Wages Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 238"
citation: "Utah H.B. 238 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor", "Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkes, Timothy D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36f13977-2efe-4337-9eed-5589975f4364"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0238.html"
source_hash: "d42f91a58351f65e5cb9690cb372f3b842110289c8ad9293395585981f32c21b"
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. 238 (2017) — H.B. 238 Payment of Wages Act 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/~2017/bills/hbillint/HB0238S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0238.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **17–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hawkes, Timothy D. — primary (person)
- Buxton, D. Gregg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-01-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-07** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-02-13** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2017-02-14** comm rpt/substituted/Consent Calendar
- **2017-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-15** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-16** to Senate
- **2017-02-17** received from House
- **2017-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-02** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-02** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2017-03-07** lifted from table
- **2017-03-07** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-07** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-03-07** to House
- **2017-03-07** received from Senate
- **2017-03-07** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-14** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-17** 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/36f13977-2efe-4337-9eed-5589975f4364`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).