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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ballot Drop Box Amendments"
+description: "Ballot Drop Box Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 347"
+citation: "Utah HB 347 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Petersen, Michael J."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-01-31"
+last_action: "2023-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62354149-2b37-4398-889a-1a28ee1eaff7"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0347.html"
+source_hash: "15095b3993fb8f2c6364b621e46b6d969f0c83e2d14f794558b275f51e6c28c8"
+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 347 (2023) — Ballot Drop Box 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0347.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0347.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **21–6** (pass) · upper
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–3** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–2** (pass) · lower
+- passed 3rd reading — **54–16** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Petersen, Michael J. — primary (person)
+- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-31** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2023-01-31** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2023-01-31** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
+- **2023-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
+- **2023-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-02-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2023-02-03** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2023-02-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
+- **2023-02-07** to House Government Operations Committee
+- **2023-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2023-02-13** held
+- **2023-02-14** to Senate
+- **2023-02-15** received from House `receipt`
+- **2023-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2023-02-16** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
+- **2023-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2023-02-28** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2023-03-02** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2023-03-02** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** to House
+- **2023-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
+- **2023-03-03** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2023-03-03** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
+- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-14** 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/62354149-2b37-4398-889a-1a28ee1eaff7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
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