---
type: "Bill"
title: "General Fund Budget Reserve Account Amendments"
description: "General Fund Budget Reserve Account Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 244"
citation: "Utah H.B. 244 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sales and Use Tax", "Revenue and Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ivory, Ken"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-31"
last_action: "2017-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/798db049-34c3-4524-9835-1e8b9527deb1"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0244.html"
source_hash: "07a8a19432b729296b42de69a46fac1e7b3bf8f86f4ab47f9952d17c20a1c33d"
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. 244 (2017) — General Fund Budget Reserve Account 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/HB0244.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0244.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **20–4** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ivory, Ken — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-31** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-01-31** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-31** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-02-01** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-03** to House Revenue and Taxation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** circled
- **2017-02-22** uncircled
- **2017-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-22** to Senate
- **2017-02-23** received from House
- **2017-02-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-24** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-28** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2017-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-03-08** to House
- **2017-03-08** received from Senate
- **2017-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-03-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-29** 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/798db049-34c3-4524-9835-1e8b9527deb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).