---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 72 Communications of Governmental Entity Employees and Officers"
description: "H.B. 72 Communications of Governmental Entity Employees and Officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 72"
citation: "Utah H.B. 72 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government Records", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fawson, Justin L."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-12-15"
last_action: "2018-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33b2807b-5c77-4c90-b7b1-86385f424aba"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0072.html"
source_hash: "adc63e35e1ab601d15dfd2e73ab2c66c0e4b71685b32e6bbb91fffd3b4f7e8b2"
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. 72 (2018) — H.B. 72 Communications of Governmental Entity Employees and Officers

## 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/HB0072S02.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0072S02.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0072.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Held — **8–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Fawson, Justin L. — primary (person)
- Hemmert, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-12-21** 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`
- **2018-01-22** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** House Comm - Held
- **2018-01-26** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2018-01-26** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2018-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-29** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2018-01-29** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-07** to Senate
- **2018-02-07** received from House
- **2018-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-16** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-02-16** to House
- **2018-02-16** received from Senate
- **2018-02-16** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-02-19** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-02-19** 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`
- **2018-03-15** 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/33b2807b-5c77-4c90-b7b1-86385f424aba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).