---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales Tax on Motor Vehicles"
description: "Sales Tax on Motor Vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 49"
citation: "Utah H.B. 49 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Sales and Use Tax", "Revenue and Taxation", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39257d29-9ce4-4293-a02d-8dc542c47e1d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0049.html"
source_hash: "fcd61218b744ab6597a3e4f851210d77980ab54f57d3dc1f194aced9eaefa448"
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. 49 (2020) — Sales Tax on Motor Vehicles

## 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/HB0049.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillamd/HB0049.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0049.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **67–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thurston, Norman K. — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-08** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-08** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-19** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-01-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-01-27** 2nd suspended
- **2020-01-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-01-27** to Senate
- **2020-01-28** received from House
- **2020-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-30** to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-01-30** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-31** comm rpt/amended
- **2020-01-31** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-05** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-06** to House with amendments
- **2020-02-06** received from Senate
- **2020-02-06** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2020-02-07** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2020-02-07** to Senate
- **2020-02-10** received from House
- **2020-02-10** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-02-10** to House
- **2020-02-10** received from Senate
- **2020-02-10** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-02-11** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-02-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-18** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-18** 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/39257d29-9ce4-4293-a02d-8dc542c47e1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).