---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 4 Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
description: "H.B. 4 Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Utah HB 4 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Business", "Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control", "Department of Commerce", "Department of Heritage and Arts", "Economic Development", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Governor's Office of Economic Development", "Heritage and Arts", "Insurance Department", "Public Budgeting", "Public Service Commission", "Public Utilities & Technology", "Revenue and Taxation", "State Tax Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-14"
last_action: "2021-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3252c9ad-78c7-4828-8e9f-4ecc2d639ca9"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0004.html"
source_hash: "e06ddd8dab68ae708fdf106499cc4e6ec2d63849043de1af848888f92a44e194"
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 4 (2021) — H.B. 4 Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget

## 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/HB0004S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0004.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Watkins, Christine F. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-19** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-01-22** circled
- **2021-01-27** uncircled
- **2021-01-27** floor amendment # 2
- **2021-01-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-01-27** to Senate
- **2021-01-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-28** received from House
- **2021-01-28** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-01-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2021-01-28** to House with amendments
- **2021-01-28** received from Senate
- **2021-01-28** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2021-01-28** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2021-01-28** to Senate
- **2021-01-29** received from House
- **2021-01-29** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-01-29** to House
- **2021-01-29** received from Senate
- **2021-01-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-01-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-01-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-01-29** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-01-29** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-02-01** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-02-01** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-04** 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/3252c9ad-78c7-4828-8e9f-4ecc2d639ca9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).