---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Act Amendments"
description: "Motor Vehicle Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 16"
citation: "Utah SB 16 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Division of Motor Vehicles", "Emissions Control", "Motor Vehicles", "Motorcycles", "Off-highway Vehicles", "Transportation", "Vehicle Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-12-18"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e826a35-4a82-47d4-86da-877e9ca8e118"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0016.html"
source_hash: "9132dda7064cb84f48a4fd82cc07e6d28ed1d0a6ce50ace2c944784dd184498b"
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 16 (2024) — Motor Vehicle 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/sbillint/SB0016.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillamd/SB0016.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0016.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **57–12** (pass) · lower
- concurs with House amendment — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Peterson, Karen M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-12-18** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-12-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-12-20** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-12** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-16** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-01-16** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-01-16** to House
- **2024-01-17** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** to House Transportation Committee
- **2024-01-24** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-31** motion to reconsider
- **2024-01-31** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-31** to Senate
- **2024-02-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-01** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-02** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-02** to House
- **2024-02-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-02** to Senate
- **2024-02-05** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-06** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-02-06** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** 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/0e826a35-4a82-47d4-86da-877e9ca8e118`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).