---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electric Vehicle Charging Network"
description: "Electric Vehicle Charging Network"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 259"
citation: "Utah H.B. 259 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Air Quality", "Transportation", "Department of Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Spendlove, Robert M."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-04"
last_action: "2020-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94fad836-443d-4fda-941a-b9209ac76d10"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0259.html"
source_hash: "6d1c2078e8ce92ce13ecfec89172e7c3826718941d41bed9edd8c04549ffd01e"
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. 259 (2020) — Electric Vehicle Charging Network

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0259.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillamd/HB0259.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0259.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **27–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Spendlove, Robert M. — primary (person)
- Buxton, David G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-04** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-02-04** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-02-04** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-02-05** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-06** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-07** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-10** to House Transportation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** floor amendment # 1
- **2020-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-21** to Senate
- **2020-02-24** received from House
- **2020-02-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2020-03-10** to Rules
- **2020-03-10** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-10** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-10** to House
- **2020-03-10** received from Senate
- **2020-03-10** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-11** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-23** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-23** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-24** 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/94fad836-443d-4fda-941a-b9209ac76d10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).