---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 256 Military Compatible Land Use Amendments"
description: "H.B. 256 Military Compatible Land Use Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 256"
citation: "Utah HB 256 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Annexation", "Department of Veterans and Military Affairs", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Land Use", "Local Government Boundaries", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Veterans and Military Affairs", "West Traverse Sentinel Landscape"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Val L."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/972afe4e-0a38-4bad-af4d-ead879420b23"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0256.html"
source_hash: "92c1086c0302d2680f001a5cabe0a5bb556318ced211c7bff74514e8cf767137"
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 256 (2024) — H.B. 256 Military Compatible Land Use 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/HB0256S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0256.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Val L. — primary (person)
- Buxton, David G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-19** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-01-22** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-22** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-30** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-30** to Senate
- **2024-01-30** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-31** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-02-01** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-09** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-09** to House
- **2024-02-12** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-12** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-12** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-12** 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/972afe4e-0a38-4bad-af4d-ead879420b23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).