---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 438 Higher Education Revisions"
description: "H.B. 438 Higher Education Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 438"
citation: "Utah HB 438 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Colleges and Universities", "Education", "Higher Education", "Utah System of Higher Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Karen M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdef2cd9-7f70-40d8-9fb6-1b0a53482a85"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0438.html"
source_hash: "82eb78e3ce28c8aed8176855b5212c232e14a264799099b99e0da5b6bcf650a5"
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 438 (2024) — H.B. 438 Higher Education Revisions

## 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/HB0438S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0438.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **63–7** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–3** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Karen M. — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** to House Education Committee
- **2024-02-07** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-20** to Senate
- **2024-02-20** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate Education Committee
- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-29** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `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
- **2024-02-29** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/bdef2cd9-7f70-40d8-9fb6-1b0a53482a85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).