---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 79 Waste Management Amendments"
description: "S.B. 79 Waste Management Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 79"
citation: "Utah S.B. 79 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental Quality", "Solid Waste"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams, J. Stuart"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6c15bc17-1b01-4190-a48e-802dd1aacc77"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0079.html"
source_hash: "ed64fe04af16839212daae8a5c62e69748be4895f78b24ba8262ac3377aefe9b"
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 S.B. 79 (2017) — S.B. 79 Waste Management 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/sbillint/SB0079S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillamd/SB0079S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0079.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **23–2** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **62–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Adams, J. Stuart — primary (person)
- McKell, Mike K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-01-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-17** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-02-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** circled
- **2017-02-14** uncircled
- **2017-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** circled
- **2017-02-15** uncircled
- **2017-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-15** to House
- **2017-02-15** received from Senate
- **2017-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2017-03-01** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-03-01** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2017-03-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-03-02** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2017-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-07** to Senate
- **2017-03-07** received from House
- **2017-03-07** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2017-03-07** concurs with House amendment
- **2017-03-07** to House
- **2017-03-07** received from Senate
- **2017-03-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-07** to Senate
- **2017-03-07** received from House
- **2017-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-17** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-17** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-20** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-24** 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/6c15bc17-1b01-4190-a48e-802dd1aacc77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).