---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
description: "Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 4"
citation: "Utah HB 4 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Business", "Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services", "Department of Commerce", "Department of Financial Institutions", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Insurance Department", "Public Budgeting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-14"
last_action: "2023-02-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4255ad33-13f6-48ee-a178-1a03cbf7020e"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0004.html"
source_hash: "299c2c7478f4ab7629671859e5783fa45c1036776feba95b2cfc8910a8a2246e"
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 (2023) — 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0004.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0004.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-14** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-16** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-01-17** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-24** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** circled
- **2023-01-25** uncircled
- **2023-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-25** to Senate
- **2023-01-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-01-26** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-01-26** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-01-26** to House
- **2023-01-26** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-01-27** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-01-27** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-01-27** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-01-27** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-01-31** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-02** 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/4255ad33-13f6-48ee-a178-1a03cbf7020e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).