---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 161 Auto Registration Requirements"
description: "H.B. 161 Auto Registration Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 161"
citation: "Utah H.B. 161 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Transportation", "Registration and Registration Fees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6ac1449a-a78e-41bc-96f5-25ae89aa1298"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0161.html"
source_hash: "23b7c7418da6f8a0ca6448dabceae578d317508e59adb75a1a8a901fc9f0c986"
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. 161 (2018) — H.B. 161 Auto Registration Requirements

## 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/HB0161S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0161.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2 — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **63–1** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Held — **7–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Watkins, Christine F — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** to House Transportation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25** House Comm - Held
- **2018-01-31** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-01-31** House Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed
- **2018-02-10** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-12** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-02-16** House Comm - Reconsider actions
- **2018-02-16** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2
- **2018-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-19** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-20** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-02-20** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-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
- **2018-03-07** 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
- **2018-03-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** 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/6ac1449a-a78e-41bc-96f5-25ae89aa1298`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).