---
type: "Bill"
title: "Franchisee Protection Act"
description: "Franchisee Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 441"
citation: "Utah HB 441 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Commerce and Trade", "Contracts and Obligations", "Franchises"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ivory, Ken"]
version_count: 12
action_count: 45
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-06T23:07:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-17T16:54:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7d7cc31-8093-4162-9b4d-772ee21b02d0"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0441.html"
source_hash: "5d5eaa15666f1dea25ccfec6c59816ac7c728f9afab8fe432a1e6cff2996d4dd"
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 441 (2025) — Franchisee Protection Act

## 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/HB0441.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0441 To HB0441S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0441S01 To HB0441S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB441H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB441H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB441H20.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB441S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB441S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB441S20.pdf)
10. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0441S01.xml)
11. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0441S02.xml)
12. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0441.xml)

## Sponsors

- Ivory, Ken — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06T23:07:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-06T23:07:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-07T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-07T18:17:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-10T18:49:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-12T18:59:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T23:10:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T23:11:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:09:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-14T17:09:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T18:20:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-21T18:28:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-21T18:28:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-21T19:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T21:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-24T21:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T17:06:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T22:00:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T22:00:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T00:54:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T01:16:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T01:16:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-07T01:29:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T01:31:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-07T01:34:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-07T02:00:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T02:02:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T02:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-07T16:33:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T16:33:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-07T17:32:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07T17:32:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T21:22:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T21:22:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:22:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T00:14:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T00:14:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T00:49:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T00:49:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T19:54:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T19:54:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T14:57:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-17T16:54:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:54:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7d7cc31-8093-4162-9b4d-772ee21b02d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).