---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 135 Advanced Air Mobility and Aeronautics Amendments"
description: "S.B. 135 Advanced Air Mobility and Aeronautics Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 135"
citation: "Utah SB 135 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Airports", "Department of Transportation", "Transportation", "Unmanned Aircraft"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41d5a702-846b-4e64-8e6d-d80c2035f9b4"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0135.html"
source_hash: "077a2e01d01cf781652ba4efb54a4ae4c02a56d7cf94b01f37ca791e87d5295f"
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 SB 135 (2024) — S.B. 135 Advanced Air Mobility and Aeronautics 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/sbillint/SB0135S03.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillamd/SB0135S03.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0135.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with House amendment — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **66–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Christofferson, Kay J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-23** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
- **2024-01-26** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-29** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-02** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-02** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-05** to House
- **2024-02-05** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-14** to House Transportation Committee
- **2024-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** circled
- **2024-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-27** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-29** uncircled
- **2024-02-29** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-29** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-02-29** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-29** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-02-29** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-20** 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/41d5a702-846b-4e64-8e6d-d80c2035f9b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).