---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 79 Estate Planning Recodification"
description: "S.B. 79 Estate Planning Recodification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 79"
citation: "Utah SB 79 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abuse", "Neglect", "or Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults", "Advance Health Care Directive", "Crimes", "Family", "Fiduciaries and Trusts", "Fraud", "Judicial Operations", "Power of Attorney", "Probate", "Recodification", "Uniform Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weiler, Todd D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/332a4d09-01c8-44dc-9bcc-50c4922181b7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0079.html"
source_hash: "ae044bbbe3a6bee4e45febfd8b28df5fc09702640779ca3899ff75e690acc837"
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 79 (2024) — S.B. 79 Estate Planning Recodification

## 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/SB0079S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0079.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **62–6** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **25–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weiler, Todd D. — primary (person)
- Brammer, Brady — 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
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-12** 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** circled
- **2024-02-06** uncircled
- **2024-02-06** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** circled
- **2024-02-12** uncircled
- **2024-02-12** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-12** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-12** to House
- **2024-02-12** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-13** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** to House Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** 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`
- **2024-03-18** 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/332a4d09-01c8-44dc-9bcc-50c4922181b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).