---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cultural and Community Engagement Amendments"
description: "Cultural and Community Engagement Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 115"
citation: "Utah HB 115 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Arts", "Boards and Committees", "Cemeteries", "Cultural Engagement", "Cultural and Community Engagement", "Department of Cultural and Community Engagement", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Museums", "Procurement", "Public Lands"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-02"
last_action: "2024-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d159624-fc1b-4342-b3bf-6ed276c7dbb6"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0115.html"
source_hash: "03a4c019fd0bbcdc2c28b96d810eb499e3cd88f70a7d4ef786cf429b24bb9e5a"
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 115 (2024) — Cultural and Community Engagement 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0115.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0115.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0115.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Watkins, Christine F. — primary (person)
- Sandall, Scott D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-02** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-02** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-02** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** to House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-30** held
- **2024-01-31** to Senate
- **2024-01-31** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-02-07** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** comm rpt/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** floor amendment # 2
- **2024-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-15** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-15** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-15** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-16** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-16** to Senate
- **2024-02-16** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-16** to House
- **2024-02-16** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-19** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-19** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-02-19** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-18** 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/4d159624-fc1b-4342-b3bf-6ed276c7dbb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).