---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 312 Maintenance Funding Practices Act"
description: "H.B. 312 Maintenance Funding Practices Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 312"
citation: "Utah H.B. 312 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Courts", "Fraud"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnigan, James A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 50
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2020-02-11"
last_action: "2020-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dc59b5be-5cbb-4cd8-b027-1f732f2d1434"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0312.html"
source_hash: "a81e53ec9e2c5907dd9522ba135a1d108096a3902c47b9d673698427a6448103"
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. 312 (2020) — H.B. 312 Maintenance Funding Practices Act

## 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/HB0312S02.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillamd/HB0312S02.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0312.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **69–3** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **64–3** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with Senate amendment — **67–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dunnigan, James A. — primary (person)
- Bramble, Curtis S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-02-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-02-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-02-11** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-02-14** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-20** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-20** comm rpt/substituted
- **2020-02-20** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-25** motion to reconsider
- **2020-02-25** substituted from # 1 to # 2
- **2020-02-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-25** to Senate
- **2020-02-26** received from House
- **2020-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-26** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-03-02** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-03-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-02** comm rpt/amended
- **2020-03-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-11** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** circled
- **2020-03-11** uncircled
- **2020-03-11** circled
- **2020-03-11** uncircled
- **2020-03-11** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-11** to House with amendments
- **2020-03-11** received from Senate
- **2020-03-11** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2020-03-11** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2020-03-11** to Senate
- **2020-03-12** received from House
- **2020-03-12** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-12** to House
- **2020-03-12** received from Senate
- **2020-03-12** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-12** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-12** 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/dc59b5be-5cbb-4cd8-b027-1f732f2d1434`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).