---
type: "Bill"
title: "Evidence Retention Amendments"
description: "Evidence Retention Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 76"
citation: "Utah SB 76 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Criminal Procedure", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Peace Officers", "Wildlife"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65b14e5c-7d61-496d-9ef6-9032330adb2d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0076.html"
source_hash: "e409c77c03f33b4bc0ff2f992bc8c10908c60a31efe06f6003704b6a870367f1"
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 76 (2024) — Evidence Retention 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/SB0076.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0076.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Ivory, Ken — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-09** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-15** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-15** 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** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-01-17** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-18** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-18** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-22** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-23** to House
- **2024-01-24** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-30** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** circled
- **2024-02-14** uncircled
- **2024-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-14** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-14** to Senate
- **2024-02-14** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-14** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-15** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-02-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/65b14e5c-7d61-496d-9ef6-9032330adb2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).