---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Facility Energy Efficiency Amendments"
description: "State Facility Energy Efficiency Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 131"
citation: "Utah HB 131 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Administrative Services", "Electricity", "Energy", "Environment", "Facilities", "Construction", "and Management", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Natural Gas", "Public Utilities", "Public Utilities & Technology", "State Facilities", "Water Utilities", "Irrigation", "and Sewer"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Handy, Stephen G."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f32d7334-6c9f-4539-b72e-4a1fe28b37de"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0131.html"
source_hash: "5ec8bbbf3166b5c0f3d1096ccb061dda01bdadab424b7a1075b003f0009f7716"
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 HB 131 (2021) — State Facility Energy Efficiency Amendments

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0131.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0131.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Handy, Stephen G. — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-11** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-01-13** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-01-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** to House Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-01-25** to Senate
- **2021-01-26** received from House
- **2021-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-01** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-05** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-05** to House
- **2021-02-05** received from Senate
- **2021-02-05** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-16** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-02-16** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-12** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-12** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** 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/f32d7334-6c9f-4539-b72e-4a1fe28b37de`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).