---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Transit Employee Collective Bargaining Amendments"
description: "Public Transit Employee Collective Bargaining Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 243"
citation: "Utah HB 243 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor Disputes", "Labor Organizations", "Labor and Employment", "Public Transit", "Transportation", "Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins, Jon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-19"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8cc03952-39ae-440a-a59f-0f67995a1cba"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0243.html"
source_hash: "0d121427d3f376addd0ddaedfae8b72d7f33c293cf6d76ba74162201b5ddacf7"
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 243 (2023) — Public Transit Employee Collective Bargaining 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0243.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0243.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **17–8** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **20–9** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **49–21** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawkins, Jon — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-19** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-20** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-20** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-24** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** to House Transportation Committee
- **2023-02-02** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-06** to Senate
- **2023-02-07** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-08** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2023-02-10** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-16** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-16** to House
- **2023-02-16** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-16** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-17** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-23** 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/8cc03952-39ae-440a-a59f-0f67995a1cba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).