---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 460 Government Employee Conscience Protection Amendments"
description: "H.B. 460 Government Employee Conscience Protection Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 460"
citation: "Utah HB 460 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Government Operations (State Issues)", "Utah Board of Higher Education", "Utah System of Higher Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petersen, Michael J."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d316d77-0b5c-4296-8b5b-91a65417e9b2"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0460.html"
source_hash: "fbdf99fa88c68af4eb27181a866b9b5692a03b2d0ad266f0c8062eba6564be38"
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 460 (2024) — H.B. 460 Government Employee Conscience Protection 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/HB0460S03.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0460S03.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0460.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **21–5** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **60–7** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Petersen, Michael J. — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-02** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-02** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-14** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-02-21** House Comm - Held
- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-02-26** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-02-26** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-26** to Senate
- **2024-02-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **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`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** 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`
- **2024-03-21** 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/8d316d77-0b5c-4296-8b5b-91a65417e9b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).