---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 257 Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities"
description: "H.B. 257 Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 257"
citation: "Utah HB 257 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Health and Human Services", "Higher Education", "K-12 Education", "School Facilities", "State Facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birkeland, Kera"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 65
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-01-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88566edb-6e47-4fba-a888-ab91cee9f4b1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0257.html"
source_hash: "8f196c206d5161783eb7d2bd0ccb808a483a12de788b511a5e67a77c9ec9feed"
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 257 (2024) — H.B. 257 Sex-based Designations for Privacy, Anti-bullying, and Women's Opportunities

## 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/HB0257S05.pdf)
2. **Conference Committee Report 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/comreport/HB257C10.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0257.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 4 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **52–17** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **20–7** (pass) · upper
- House Conference Committee - Final Passage — **58–16** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **21–8** (pass) · upper
- Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage — **20–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — 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`
- **2024-01-16** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-17** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-01-17** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-18** comm rpt/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-19** floor amendment # 3
- **2024-01-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-19** to Senate
- **2024-01-19** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-01-22** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 4 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-01-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-23** comm rpt/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** circled
- **2024-01-24** uncircled
- **2024-01-24** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-01-24** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-01-25** floor amendment failed # 2 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-01-25** substitute adoption failed from # 3 to # 4 `failure`
- **2024-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-25** to House with amendments
- **2024-01-25** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-25** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-01-26** refuse to concur with Senate amendment
- **2024-01-26** to Senate
- **2024-01-26** refused to recede from Senate amendments
- **2024-01-26** Senate Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-26** House Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** to Senate
- **2024-01-26** Bill Substituted by Conference Committee from # 3 to # 5
- **2024-01-26** Conference Committee Report
- **2024-01-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-26** Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2024-01-26** Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2024-01-26** to House
- **2024-01-26** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-26** House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2024-01-26** House Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2024-01-26** to Senate
- **2024-01-29** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-29** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-29** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-01-29** to House
- **2024-01-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-01-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-01-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-01-29** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-01-29** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-01-30** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-01-30** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-30** 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/88566edb-6e47-4fba-a888-ab91cee9f4b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).