---
type: "Bill"
title: "Federalism Amendments"
description: "Federalism Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 488"
citation: "Utah HB 488 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Federalism", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Higher Education", "Legislative Committees and Task Forces"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ivory, Ken"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 57
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T19:38:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:35:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa906639-3169-4ad8-9487-429f55e1149c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0488.html"
source_hash: "56dd60c1390801e0615ad4fcab4a71425cdbce4c58418f668a2ad9f41b6e9d0c"
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 488 (2025) — Federalism 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/HB0488.xml)
2. **Amended 2/19/2025 11:02:824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0488_2025-02-19_11-35-27.pdf)
3. **Amended 3/4/2025 19:03:471** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0488S01_2025-03-04_19-38-45.pdf)
4. **Amended Excerpts 2/19/2025 11:02:824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0488_2025-02-19_11-35-27.pdf)
5. **Amended Excerpts 3/4/2025 19:03:471** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0488S01_2025-03-04_19-38-45.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0488 To HB0488S01.pdf)
7. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0488S01 To HB0488S02.pdf)
8. **Conference Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB488C10.pdf)
9. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0488.Hamd.1.pdf)
10. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB488H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488H10.pdf)
12. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488H20.pdf)
13. **House Transmittal Letter 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488H40.pdf)
14. **House Transmittal Letter 6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488H60.pdf)
15. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0488S01.Samd.1.pdf)
16. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB488S10.pdf)
17. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488S10.pdf)
18. **Senate Transmittal Letter 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488S40.pdf)
19. **Senate Transmittal Letter 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB488S50.pdf)
20. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0488S01.xml)
21. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0488S02.xml)
22. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0488.xml)

## Sponsors

- Ivory, Ken — primary (person)
- Stratton, Keven J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T19:38:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-12T19:38:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-13T16:14:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T17:30:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-14T18:19:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14T19:17:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T15:39:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-19T15:40:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T22:11:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19T22:11:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-20T18:33:00+00:00** House/ placed on Time Certain Calendar
- **2025-02-21T21:33:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-21T21:44:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-21T21:44:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-22T00:35:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T17:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T16:45:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-03T16:46:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T02:18:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T02:19:00+00:00** Senate/ floor amendment
- **2025-03-05T02:22:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T02:22:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:50:00+00:00** House/ refuse to concur with Senate amendment
- **2025-03-05T21:50:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T00:22:00+00:00** Senate/ refused to recede from Senate amendments
- **2025-03-06T00:26:00+00:00** Senate Conference Committee Appointed `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T00:26:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T00:44:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T00:44:00+00:00** House Conference Committee Appointed `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T00:44:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T02:00:00+00:00** Bill Substituted by Conference Committee
- **2025-03-06T02:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee Report
- **2025-03-06T02:18:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T02:18:00+00:00** Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2025-03-06T02:20:00+00:00** Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2025-03-06T02:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T17:33:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T17:33:00+00:00** House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2025-03-06T17:36:00+00:00** House Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2025-03-06T17:36:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T21:13:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T21:13:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06T21:13:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T22:42:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T22:42:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:43:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:43:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T17:06:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T17:07:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:35:00+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/fa906639-3169-4ad8-9487-429f55e1149c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).