---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education Development Areas"
description: "Higher Education Development Areas"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 129"
citation: "Utah SB 129 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Construction", "Economic Development", "Education", "Higher Education", "Land Use", "Planning and Zoning", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Real Estate", "Real Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson, Chris H."]
version_count: 18
action_count: 48
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T21:28:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:37:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02d45502-7a2b-49eb-9347-df4ca9b269f9"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0129.html"
source_hash: "dfdbf37b67ed7e7d1ad42747cbed0037042f477ea42f4235ae2a487eee8b8160"
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 SB 129 (2025) — Higher Education Development Areas

## 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/SB0129.xml)
2. **Amended 2/27/2025 09:02:225** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0129S03_2025-02-27_09-56-31.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/27/2025 09:02:225** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0129S03_2025-02-27_09-56-31.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0129 To SB0129S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0129S01 To SB0129S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0129S02 To SB0129S03.pdf)
7. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0129S03.Hamd.1.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0129S03.Hamd.2.pdf)
9. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB129H10.pdf)
10. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB129H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB129H20.pdf)
12. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB129S10.pdf)
13. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB129S10.pdf)
14. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB129S20.pdf)
15. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0129S01.xml)
16. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0129S02.xml)
17. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0129S03.xml)
18. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0129.xml)

## Sponsors

- Wilson, Chris H. — primary (person)
- Eliason, Steve — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T21:28:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-16T21:28:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:54:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-20T21:05:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-23T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T15:08:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T15:17:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T18:32:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-13T18:32:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T18:48:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T17:41:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24T17:41:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-25T21:39:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-25T21:41:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-25T21:47:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T21:47:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T22:19:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T17:12:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T00:14:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-27T00:16:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T00:20:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-27T00:22:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T17:21:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T17:21:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-02-27T18:46:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-27T18:46:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-06T22:20:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-06T22:26:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:26:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T00:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T00:12:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-07T01:52:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-07T01:53:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T15:25:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:25:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07T15:25:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T19:20:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T19:20:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T20:51:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T20:51:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T22:59:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:00:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:00:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:37:00+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/02d45502-7a2b-49eb-9347-df4ca9b269f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).