---
type: "Bill"
title: "Environmental Quality Revisions"
description: "Environmental Quality Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "S.B. 88"
citation: "Utah S.B. 88 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Radiation", "Air Quality", "Environment", "Department of Environmental Quality", "Hazardous Materials", "Administrative Rulemaking"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Okerlund, Ralph"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2ccb6bf-4993-447c-8f35-732fdfbda2dd"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/SB0088.html"
source_hash: "b418d576433c7abbf3d929aa800e4060de980d48ea40d5be7a5fefc4182aa230"
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. 88 (2020) — Environmental Quality Revisions

## 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/sbillint/SB0088.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/sbillamd/SB0088.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/sbillenr/SB0088.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Okerlund, Ralph — primary (person)
- Harrison, Suzanne — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-29** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-03** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-02-03** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-02-04** comm rpt/amended
- **2020-02-04** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-12** to House
- **2020-02-12** received from Senate
- **2020-02-12** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-18** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-26** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2020-02-26** to Senate
- **2020-02-27** received from House
- **2020-02-27** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2020-02-27** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2020-02-27** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-28** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-28** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-28** 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/b2ccb6bf-4993-447c-8f35-732fdfbda2dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).