---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local Regulation of Business Entities Amendments"
description: "Local Regulation of Business Entities Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 179"
citation: "Utah SB 179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Counties", "Land Use", "Local Government Ordinances", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Musselman, Calvin R."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-28T16:55:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T14:17:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faa6ef43-b7ce-4472-a1ee-20d8d5216a30"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0179.html"
source_hash: "7174edaf5226c4b0d49f4e65c9ff53974a63f967796e1385a787c3fd4683a80f"
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 179 (2025) — Local Regulation of Business Entities 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/SB0179.xml)
2. **Amended 2/18/2025 09:02:705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0179_2025-02-18_09-07-17.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/18/2025 09:02:705** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0179_2025-02-18_09-07-17.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB179H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB179H10.pdf)
6. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0179.Samd.1.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB179S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB179S10.pdf)
9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0179.xml)

## Sponsors

- Musselman, Calvin R. — primary (person)
- Peterson, Karen M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-28T16:55:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-28T16:55:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-28T17:52:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-29T18:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-30T18:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T16:58:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-14T21:37:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-14T21:40:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T23:04:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T23:08:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:27:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24T21:30:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-24T21:30:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T00:12:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T17:09:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T15:48:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:25:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:25:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07T01:57:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T02:01:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T02:01:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07T02:01:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:07:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T22:07:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T18:01:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T18:01:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:07:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19T14:17:00+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/faa6ef43-b7ce-4472-a1ee-20d8d5216a30`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).