---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 228 Public Employee Leave Amendments"
description: "H.B. 228 Public Employee Leave Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 228"
citation: "Utah HB 228 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government Operations (State Issues)", "Legislative Employees and Compensation", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Public Employees Insurance and Benefits", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f99c82e-81b3-473f-9428-f79bfe9f1b91"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0228.html"
source_hash: "f5e715074fda69a8fe287c2a72a4662f61c9e441f77f2b9d2e477ff374124ad5"
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 228 (2024) — H.B. 228 Public Employee Leave 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/HB0228S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0228.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **67–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thurston, Norman K — primary (person)
- Pitcher, Stephanie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-10** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-16** 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`
- **2024-01-19** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-01-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **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 Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-09** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** 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** circled
- **2024-02-28** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-29** uncircled
- **2024-02-29** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-29** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** 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`
- **2024-03-19** 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/3f99c82e-81b3-473f-9428-f79bfe9f1b91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).