---
type: "Bill"
title: "Bereavement Leave Modifications"
description: "Bereavement Leave Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 449"
citation: "Utah HB 449 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Division of Human Resource Management", "Education", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Higher Education", "Local Government Employees", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shipp, Rex P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-21"
last_action: "2022-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02f9207b-0efa-43c2-a1d5-467a7f4b1501"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0449.html"
source_hash: "ce383fa9aa65e6c8b992fdd735531b7bb57726e98fb8a65e8e203f40aca08d80"
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 449 (2022) — Bereavement Leave Modifications

## 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/HB0449.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0449.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shipp, Rex P. — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-02-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-02-21** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-02-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-02-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-02-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-02-24** to House Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-28** to Senate
- **2022-02-28** received from House
- **2022-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-04** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** circled
- **2022-03-04** uncircled
- **2022-03-04** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-03-04** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-03-04** to House
- **2022-03-04** received from Senate
- **2022-03-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-03-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-03-08** 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`
- **2022-03-22** 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/02f9207b-0efa-43c2-a1d5-467a7f4b1501`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).