---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational Safety and Health Amendments"
description: "Occupational Safety and Health Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 245"
citation: "Utah HB 245 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Labor and Employment", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Punishment", "Workplace Safety and Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkes, Timothy D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-26"
last_action: "2022-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9e40e276-89da-4f0b-9e78-416692c0424f"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0245.html"
source_hash: "5ab66723bc5aa7b278085a9b56096c5e68d6f01dba79d7a816a5af0fa2bd2bfe"
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 245 (2022) — Occupational Safety and Health 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/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0245.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0245.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawkes, Timothy D. — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-26** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-26** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-26** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-01-27** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-31** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-02-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-02-02** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-07** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2022-02-08** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2022-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-10** to Senate
- **2022-02-10** received from House
- **2022-02-10** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** circled
- **2022-02-18** uncircled
- **2022-02-18** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-18** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-02-18** to House
- **2022-02-18** received from Senate
- **2022-02-18** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-22** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-02-22** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-10** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** 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/9e40e276-89da-4f0b-9e78-416692c0424f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).