---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 78 Motion Picture Incentives Amendments"
description: "H.B. 78 Motion Picture Incentives Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 78"
citation: "Utah HB 78 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity", "Grant Programs and Incentives", "Motion Pictures", "Rural Development", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stenquist, Jeffrey D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-28"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09d6cc69-47ce-4a1a-8dba-650d4f70a6ff"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0078.html"
source_hash: "245f7dfca8632ff3d11468a49c8e63e44040225468bd680fe17a548cf05acd2d"
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 78 (2024) — H.B. 78 Motion Picture Incentives 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/HB0078S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0078.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **55–18** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **47–22** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **19–8** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **15–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stenquist, Jeffrey D. — primary (person)
- Winterton, Ronald M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-28** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-18** to House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-30** circled
- **2024-02-01** uncircled
- **2024-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-01** to Senate
- **2024-02-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2024-02-12** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2024-02-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-27** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-27** 3nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-02-27** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-27** 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
- **2024-02-28** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** 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
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** Became Law w/o Governor Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/09d6cc69-47ce-4a1a-8dba-650d4f70a6ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).