republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/hb-479.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Student Athlete Revisions"
description: "Student Athlete Revisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 479"
citation: "Utah HB 479 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Athletics", "Colleges and Universities", "Education", "Higher Education", "Higher Education Students", "Utah Board of Higher Education", "Utah System of Higher Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hayes, Sahara"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 44
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-11T17:14:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:31:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5bbb2d65-ae2b-42cc-b042-32e3486fd5d1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0479.html"
source_hash: "d353731247fd9e42eaf01859703ce59228c8c06b17b15d74c623be9e0fe57622"
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 479 (2025) — Student Athlete Revisions

## 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/HB0479.xml)
2. **Amended 2/20/2025 10:02:338** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0479_2025-02-20_10-06-27.pdf)
3. **Amended 3/3/2025 11:03:464** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0479_2025-03-03_11-36-52.pdf)
4. **Amended Excerpts 2/20/2025 10:02:338** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0479_2025-02-20_10-06-27.pdf)
5. **Amended Excerpts 3/3/2025 11:03:464** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0479_2025-03-03_11-36-52.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0479 To HB0479S01.pdf)
7. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0479.Hamd.1.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0479.Hamd.2.pdf)
9. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB479H10.pdf)
10. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB479H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB479H20.pdf)
12. **Senate Amendment 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0479.Samd.3.pdf)
13. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB479S10.pdf)
14. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB479S10.pdf)
15. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB479S20.pdf)
16. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0479S01.xml)
17. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0479.xml)

## Sponsors

- Hayes, Sahara — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11T17:14:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-11T17:14:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-11T17:46:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-11T18:20:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-13T16:13:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T18:17:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T01:27:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-20T01:28:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20T17:14:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20T17:14:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T21:40:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T21:48:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T21:48:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T00:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T17:35:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T16:30:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-03T16:32:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-03T21:29:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T18:25:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T18:49:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T18:51:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-07T18:52:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-07T22:14:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-07T22:16:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T22:16:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-07T23:40:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T23:40:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T00:05:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T00:05:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T03:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T03:02:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T03:56:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T03:56:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:36:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T05:36:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T19:31:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T19:31:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:31:00+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/5bbb2d65-ae2b-42cc-b042-32e3486fd5d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).