---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 137 Teacher Empowerment"
description: "S.B. 137 Teacher Empowerment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 137"
citation: "Utah SB 137 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "Public Education Data and Reporting", "School Personnel", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillmore, Lincoln"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-22"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54759438-3321-48c6-96cc-496d2fc7e480"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0137.html"
source_hash: "b17c9e8ca5b30c347e4660e46efaa1e6c540fff6ffd29a8d6bef2c8fde580fd3"
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 137 (2024) — S.B. 137 Teacher Empowerment

## 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/SB0137S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0137.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fillmore, Lincoln — primary (person)
- Peterson, Karen M. — 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 Education Committee
- **2024-01-25** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** circled
- **2024-02-05** uncircled
- **2024-02-05** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-05** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-06** to House
- **2024-02-06** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-08** to House Education Committee
- **2024-02-15** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-21** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate
- **2024-02-22** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-22** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-02-22** 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/54759438-3321-48c6-96cc-496d2fc7e480`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).