---
type: "Bill"
title: "Quality Growth Commission Amendments"
description: "Quality Growth Commission Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 85"
citation: "Utah H.B. 85 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental Quality"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Froerer, Gage"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-21"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b53b166d-eb28-4cfa-9d62-9a7b0bf94133"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0085.html"
source_hash: "542a37dc2346a14e237f72ea2005a733950e948bcc248cdcc5629d0b59429941"
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. 85 (2017) — Quality Growth Commission 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/HB0085.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillamd/HB0085.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0085.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Froerer, Gage — primary (person)
- Buxton, D. Gregg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-22** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2016-12-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-05** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-17** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2017-02-07** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2017-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-08** comm rpt/amended
- **2017-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-21** to Senate
- **2017-02-22** received from House
- **2017-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-23** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-07** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **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
- **2017-03-09** 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
- **2017-03-16** 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/b53b166d-eb28-4cfa-9d62-9a7b0bf94133`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).