---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Entity Amendments"
description: "Business Entity Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 39"
citation: "Utah S.B. 39 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Division of Corporations and Commercial Code", "Corporations", "Limited Liability Company"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bramble, Curtis S."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-12-15"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c513d36-aad6-473d-81ba-9cc570559a9c"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0039.html"
source_hash: "6dce2b40ff7b946db25ed5cbe690d7852a6a687420e579a6990a08bc6a0082ab"
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. 39 (2018) — Business Entity 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/~2018/bills/sbillint/SB0039.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0039.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bramble, Curtis S. — primary (person)
- Eliason, Steve — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-12-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-12-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-01-04** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-23** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2018-01-24** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2018-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-01-29** to House
- **2018-01-30** received from Senate
- **2018-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-31** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-02-07** to Senate
- **2018-02-07** received from House
- **2018-02-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-02-07** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-02-07** 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** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2018-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-16** 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/9c513d36-aad6-473d-81ba-9cc570559a9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).