---
type: "Bill"
title: "School District Governance Agreements"
description: "School District Governance Agreements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 545"
citation: "Utah HB 545 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "School Community Councils", "School Districts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Karen M."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-24T20:27:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T16:01:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f42fe4a-55ad-431d-8adc-609e2ed3f941"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0545.html"
source_hash: "4be544b43ab42fb9ce4870542ee8fb12acb23cd4ea28e16669525147aec9ff8b"
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 545 (2025) — School District Governance Agreements

## 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/HB0545.xml)
2. **Amended 2/27/2025 11:02:422** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0545_2025-02-27_11-46-19.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/27/2025 11:02:422** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0545_2025-02-27_11-46-19.pdf)
4. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0545.Hamd.1.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB545H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB545H10.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB545S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB545S10.pdf)
9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0545.xml)

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Karen M. — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24T20:27:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-24T20:27:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-24T20:52:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T21:10:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T16:09:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T19:07:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T15:28:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T15:29:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T21:12:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:12:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-28T22:36:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T22:40:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T22:40:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-03T15:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-03T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-03T21:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T00:43:00+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
- **2025-03-07T22:30:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T22:32:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T22:32:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:32:00+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`
- **2025-03-08T01:59:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T01:59:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-08T05:29:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-08T05:29:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T20:15:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:15:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T16:01:00+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/8f42fe4a-55ad-431d-8adc-609e2ed3f941`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).