---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 404 Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Act"
description: "H.B. 404 Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 404"
citation: "Utah H.B. 404 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trust Lands", "Trusts", "Charter Schools", "Education", "Public Education", "Local Boards of Education", "School Finance", "Natural Resources", "Children", "State Board of Education", "Blind Persons", "Community Councils"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Last, Bradley G."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6fc183e8-642b-40e1-96dc-b16b4331cb85"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0404.html"
source_hash: "7a9fe00fb8b803f6cabd10744e606b8d1be26a3bf7179ab1ee93d81258278315"
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. 404 (2018) — H.B. 404 Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Act

## 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/HB0404S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0404S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0404.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **53–18** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Last, Bradley G. — primary (person)
- Hinkins, David P. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-02-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-02-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-02-22** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2018-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-28** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-01** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-02** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-02** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-05** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-03-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** floor amendment # 1
- **2018-03-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-05** to Senate
- **2018-03-06** received from House
- **2018-03-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** 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
- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-23** 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/6fc183e8-642b-40e1-96dc-b16b4331cb85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).