---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 48 Utah Energy Act Amendments"
description: "H.B. 48 Utah Energy Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Utah HB 48 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Environmental Quality", "Energy", "Office of Energy Development", "Public Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jack, Colin W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-21"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d0abdf3-8b96-47b1-8a9f-7355813b20d7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0048.html"
source_hash: "690cc68bd160227f9fba136a06cf31a446b69bdd85c2dd89ca7852cc5fb4444a"
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 48 (2024) — H.B. 48 Utah Energy 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/HB0048S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0048.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **23–6** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **18–2** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jack, Colin W. — primary (person)
- Hinkins, David P. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** to House Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
- **2024-01-29** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-29** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-30** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-30** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-06** to Senate
- **2024-02-06** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-02-12** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-21** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2024-02-27** 3nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-02-27** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** circled
- **2024-02-27** uncircled
- **2024-02-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-27** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-27** to House
- **2024-02-27** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-27** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-28** 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/0d0abdf3-8b96-47b1-8a9f-7355813b20d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).