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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Economic Development Amendments"
description: "Economic Development Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 542"
citation: "Utah HB 542 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Affordable Housing", "Broadband", "Community Development", "Department of Transportation", "Department of Workforce Services", "Economic Development", "Education", "Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity", "Grant Programs and Incentives", "Higher Education", "Housing", "Public Utilities and Technology", "Technology", "Transportation", "Utah Board of Higher Education", "Workforce Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins, Jon"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 45
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-21T22:46:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:59:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/98f6daaf-f9f8-48d0-919e-065928293bb7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0542.html"
source_hash: "f8f44896a91575da9133ae3bb2e598631a8ef168efec4f12c87d6bb7064a3501"
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 542 (2025) — Economic Development 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/HB0542.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542 To HB0542S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S01 To HB0542S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S02 To HB0542S03.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S03 To HB0542S04.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S04 To HB0542S05.pdf)
7. **Comparison to Sub #5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S05 To HB0542S06.pdf)
8. **Comparison to Sub #6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S06 To HB0542S07.pdf)
9. **Comparison to Sub #7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S07 To HB0542S08.pdf)
10. **Comparison to Sub #8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0542S08 To HB0542S09.pdf)
11. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB542H10.pdf)
12. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB542H10.pdf)
13. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB542H20.pdf)
14. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB542S10.pdf)
15. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB542S10.pdf)
16. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB542S20.pdf)
17. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S01.xml)
18. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S02.xml)
19. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S03.xml)
20. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S04.xml)
21. **Substitute #5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S05.xml)
22. **Substitute #6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S06.xml)
23. **Substitute #7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S07.xml)
24. **Substitute #8** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S08.xml)
25. **Substitute #9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0542S09.xml)
26. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0542.xml)
## Sponsors
- Hawkins, Jon — primary (person)
- Wilson, Chris H. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-21T22:46:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-21T22:46:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-24T16:05:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T17:15:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-25T16:04:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T18:57:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T15:40:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-27T15:41:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27T21:10:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-27T21:10:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-28T22:05:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T22:15:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T22:15:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-03T15:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-03T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-03T21:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T00:38:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-05T00:53:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T23:03:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-08T04:18:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T05:45:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:46:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-08T05:52:00+00:00** Senate/ floor amendment failed `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-03-08T05:54:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T05:54:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-08T06:14:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T06:14:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T06:17:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T06:17:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-12T22:39:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-12T22:39:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T21:05:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T21:05:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T17:19:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T17:19:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:59:00+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/98f6daaf-f9f8-48d0-919e-065928293bb7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).