---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 538 Protection of State Official or Employee Personal Information"
description: "H.B. 538 Protection of State Official or Employee Personal Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 538"
citation: "Utah HB 538 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Data and Cyber Security", "Elected Official", "Electronic Databases", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birkeland, Kera"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 49
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-13"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39db3bad-98c2-4d3c-b066-dd708e88d6ff"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0538.html"
source_hash: "7411dcb8fcfa11fb97a154661ead551d843912d9cc611b090becf5fab24b46bf"
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 538 (2024) — H.B. 538 Protection of State Official or Employee Personal Information

## 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/HB0538S02.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0538S02.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0538.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **63–3** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–3** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2 — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Michael S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-13** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-13** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-13** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-22** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-22** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-02-26** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** circled
- **2024-02-26** uncircled
- **2024-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-26** to Senate
- **2024-02-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-02-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-27** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules/substituted/amend
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-28** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-28** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-28** 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
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** 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/39db3bad-98c2-4d3c-b066-dd708e88d6ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).