---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
description: "Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Utah SB 4 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Business", "Commerce and Trade", "Cultural and Community Engagement", "Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services", "Economic Development", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity", "Insurance Department", "Public Budgeting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-01-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e82a2a39-efb1-4045-b073-b765f38e6056"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0004.html"
source_hash: "700a526eb6babe74fa0b64e44ea0a1ce94ccb05146d5658d9d1673059b51160d"
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 4 (2024) — Business, Economic Development, and Labor Base Budget

## 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/SB0004.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillamd/SB0004.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0004.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **73–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Watkins, Christine F. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-10** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-13** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-13** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** lifted from Rules
- **2024-01-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-24** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-01-24** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-01-24** to House
- **2024-01-25** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-25** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-01-25** to Senate
- **2024-01-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-26** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-01-29** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-01-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-01-29** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-01-29** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-01-29** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-30** 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/e82a2a39-efb1-4045-b073-b765f38e6056`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).