---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 118 Prohibition of Production of Private Keys"
description: "H.B. 118 Prohibition of Production of Private Keys"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 118"
citation: "Utah HB 118 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Blockchain", "Data and Cyber Security", "Electronic Databases", "Electronic Information", "Electronic Privacy", "Electronic Transactions", "Public Utilities and Technology", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee, Trevor"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-03"
last_action: "2024-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/330bbe21-b12a-4ede-a667-42b6a74b67ec"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0118.html"
source_hash: "c9fcdb5000d084fffdec8f035f53a541b2b7e5f37c4bf05eb1886a78665a1e23"
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 118 (2024) — H.B. 118 Prohibition of Production of Private Keys

## 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/HB0118S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0118.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **22–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lee, Trevor — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-03** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-03** 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 Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-01-18** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-01-26** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-29** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-05** to Senate
- **2024-02-05** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology 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** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **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** 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`
- **2024-03-18** 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/330bbe21-b12a-4ede-a667-42b6a74b67ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).