---
type: "Bill"
title: "Plant Pest Emergency Control"
description: "Plant Pest Emergency Control"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 398"
citation: "Utah H.B. 398 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Pesticide and Pest Control"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a95b0890-b24a-4b35-adcb-670dbf465025"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0398.html"
source_hash: "16f064c81e11604910f850e7173fa94e5c79a179c5c33b302b1f098a250d2587"
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. 398 (2020) — Plant Pest Emergency Control

## 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/HB0398.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0398.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Owens, Derrin R. — primary (person)
- Okerlund, Ralph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-24** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-02-24** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-02-24** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-02-25** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-02-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-26** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-02-28** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2020-03-03** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2020-03-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-06** to Senate
- **2020-03-06** received from House
- **2020-03-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-03-06** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-09** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2020-03-12** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-12** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **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
- **2020-03-16** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-16** 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`
- **2020-03-30** 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/a95b0890-b24a-4b35-adcb-670dbf465025`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).