---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 297 Utah Bee Inspection Act Amendments"
description: "H.B. 297 Utah Bee Inspection Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 297"
citation: "Utah HB 297 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Agriculture & Food", "Animals", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shipp, Rex P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f074e2f-6a75-4d40-8527-74446dd83270"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0297.html"
source_hash: "36aa1db09e48b952296f277fac8d4e8e1d656fa976618abb27e7da954cb9dd14"
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 297 (2024) — H.B. 297 Utah Bee Inspection Act 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/HB0297S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0297.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Shipp, Rex P. — primary (person)
- Winterton, Ronald M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** circled
- **2024-02-15** uncircled
- **2024-02-15** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-15** to Senate
- **2024-02-15** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-16** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-16** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-20** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **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`
- **2024-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-02** 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`
- **2024-03-12** 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/0f074e2f-6a75-4d40-8527-74446dd83270`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).