---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 117 Wind Energy Facility Siting Modifications"
description: "H.B. 117 Wind Energy Facility Siting Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 117"
citation: "Utah HB 117 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking", "Department of Natural Resources", "Department of Veterans and Military Affairs", "Energy", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Renewable and Clean Energy", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burton, Jefferson S."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-02"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a8fd380-02ad-4904-8f5c-7758cb892305"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0117.html"
source_hash: "4b6b151e6d12d24222687e3bfa7ef931ea3ea868d2a699df64b5299e9d14c9eb"
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 117 (2024) — H.B. 117 Wind Energy Facility Siting 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0117S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0117S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0117.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burton, Jefferson S. — primary (person)
- Millner, Ann — 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
- **2024-01-10** 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 Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
- **2024-01-24** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-02** to Senate
- **2024-02-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-04** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-05** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-05** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-08** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** circled
- **2024-02-15** uncircled
- **2024-02-15** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-16** circled
- **2024-02-21** uncircled
- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-21** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to House
- **2024-02-22** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-22** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-22** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/2a8fd380-02ad-4904-8f5c-7758cb892305`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).