---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 437 Fire Amendments"
description: "H.B. 437 Fire Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 437"
citation: "Utah HB 437 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire Control", "Forestry", "Fire", "and State Lands", "Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snider, Casey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 48
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f967559-92e7-48f0-bb43-64fd763c74cb"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0437.html"
source_hash: "37eb2a507a5a164bd7748079e2db61295c4d6a01c362404932ef93e9c0841253"
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 437 (2024) — H.B. 437 Fire 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0437S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0437.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2 — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Snider, Casey — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-07** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-15** to Senate
- **2024-02-16** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules/substituted
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2024-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-28** circled
- **2024-02-28** uncircled
- **2024-02-28** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-28** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-29** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-02-29** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/3f967559-92e7-48f0-bb43-64fd763c74cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).