---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 55 Employment Confidentiality Amendments"
description: "H.B. 55 Employment Confidentiality Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 55"
citation: "Utah HB 55 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birkeland, Kera"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-21"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f4063ee-eae9-4cf2-9002-f07deebfbb22"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0055.html"
source_hash: "5cfaa79719cc09d9bc94235d70dd7166dada65991329d2ea384358d2532531c0"
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 55 (2024) — H.B. 55 Employment Confidentiality 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/HB0055S02.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0055S02.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0055.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **3–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd D. — 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`
- **2024-01-16** to House Judiciary Committee
- **2024-01-19** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** circled
- **2024-01-31** uncircled
- **2024-01-31** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-31** to Senate
- **2024-01-31** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-01** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-02** lifted from standing committee
- **2024-02-02** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-05** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-05** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-06** comm rpt/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-06** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-12** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-12** placed on Time Certain Calendar
- **2024-02-14** floor amendment # 4
- **2024-02-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-14** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-15** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-15** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-16** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-16** to Senate
- **2024-02-16** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-16** to House
- **2024-02-16** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-19** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-01** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-01** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** 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/1f4063ee-eae9-4cf2-9002-f07deebfbb22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).