---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ballot Proposition Requirements"
description: "Ballot Proposition Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 481"
citation: "Utah HB 481 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Initiatives", "Legislative Operations", "Referenda", "Resolutions", "Utah Constitutional Amendments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Loubet, Anthony E."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-11T17:46:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:32:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c13f7cb7-b6fa-4f8c-a674-614f07076fb6"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0481.html"
source_hash: "27a80d4a6a3eca6a1f81ab57bed366ab44a105e688c0994d4e2a0cd628710a34"
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 481 (2025) — Ballot Proposition Requirements

## 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/HB0481.xml)
2. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB481H10.pdf)
3. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB481H10.pdf)
4. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB481S10.pdf)
5. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB481S10.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0481.xml)

## Sponsors

- Loubet, Anthony E. — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11T17:46:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-11T17:46:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-11T18:46:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-11T21:08:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-13T19:10:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-14T18:19:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T23:50:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:16:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:16:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-26T22:07:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26T22:08:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-26T22:12:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T22:16:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T22:16:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T23:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T17:38:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T23:17:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T21:25:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T00:11:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T00:11:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-08T00:19:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-08T00:22:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T00:22:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T00:22:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T02:40:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T02:40:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T17:57:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T17:57:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T17:08:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T17:08:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:32:00+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/c13f7cb7-b6fa-4f8c-a674-614f07076fb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).