---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food Labeling Amendments"
description: "Food Labeling Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 138"
citation: "Utah HB 138 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture & Food", "Animal Food Products", "Department of Agriculture and Food", "Plant Food Products"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter, R. Neil"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-08T22:17:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-20T03:23:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59c339ab-51a7-4ee8-852b-dc5d23f99a6e"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0138.html"
source_hash: "bf152a9c0c40f6969b98dadf176fd6acd9f1600daab5edb63bbcf43f746885f1"
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 HB 138 (2025) — Food Labeling 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0138.xml)
2. **Amended 1/30/2025 10:01:69** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0138_2025-01-30_10-52-44.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 1/30/2025 10:01:69** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0138_2025-01-30_10-52-44.pdf)
4. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0138.Hamd.1.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB138H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB138H10.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB138S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB138S10.pdf)
9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0138.xml)

## Sponsors

- Walter, R. Neil — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08T22:17:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-08T22:17:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T16:59:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:10:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:27:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-27T18:35:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T22:55:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-01-29T22:55:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30T18:23:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-30T18:23:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-07T22:00:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-07T22:08:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-07T22:08:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-10T16:57:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-10T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T15:06:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T18:33:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T18:33:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-26T18:25:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-26T18:28:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-27T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-27T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-27T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-27T20:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T20:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-03T15:55:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-03T15:55:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-07T16:41:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07T16:41:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T17:28:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T17:28:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-20T03:23:00+00:00** 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/59c339ab-51a7-4ee8-852b-dc5d23f99a6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).