---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Commission Amendments"
description: "Tax Commission Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 259"
citation: "Utah HB 259 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Revenue and Taxation", "State Officers and Employees", "State Tax Commission", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliason, Steve"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T18:11:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T00:23:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7781602-7b9c-4608-9968-b965d25676ee"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0259.html"
source_hash: "bebc47635b7d380e03f0903b8cf55a5c96f390392e68f27e5f4f000b7e61a95a"
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 259 (2025) — Tax Commission 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/HB0259.xml)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB259H10.pdf)
3. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB259H10.pdf)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB259S10.pdf)
5. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB259S10.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0259.xml)

## Sponsors

- Eliason, Steve — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T18:11:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T18:11:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:51:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:18:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:34:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22T21:54:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23T18:17:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23T18:17:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-01-29T17:57:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-30T18:50:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-01-30T18:54:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-01-30T18:54:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-01-30T19:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-01-31T18:29:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-04T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T23:56:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-07T18:26:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-07T18:26:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-13T18:34:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-13T18:34:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-13T18:41:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-13T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-14T18:22:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-14T18:22:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-14T18:22:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-18T18:36:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T18:36:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-19T19:11:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-19T19:11:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-07T03:19:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07T03:19:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T18:38:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T18:39:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T00:23:00+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/c7781602-7b9c-4608-9968-b965d25676ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).