---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 469 Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Amendments"
description: "H.B. 469 Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 469"
citation: "Utah HB 469 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Natural Resources", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilcox, Ryan D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4116f47-182c-4b2a-949a-642cf22a265a"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0469.html"
source_hash: "03df7bd623b8afd30abed9ff923f1621a415971f295b2cc89390e3e6db9f9647"
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 469 (2024) — H.B. 469 Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement 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/HB0469S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0469.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wilcox, Ryan D. — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-05** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-05** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-09** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-09** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate
- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-21** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **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** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **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/f4116f47-182c-4b2a-949a-642cf22a265a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).