---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 12 Disposition of Ballots Amendments"
description: "H.B. 12 Disposition of Ballots Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 12"
citation: "Utah H.B. 12 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliason, Steve"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-09"
last_action: "2017-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29abb4d0-24c7-4557-8036-11bc727a2b8a"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0012.html"
source_hash: "2a292a8e2117991347107b40b61b2744a4210ff3ef19bab711fd62df1d46b58c"
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 H.B. 12 (2017) — H.B. 12 Disposition of Ballots Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillint/HB0012S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0012.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **23–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eliason, Steve — primary (person)
- Dayton, Margaret — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-05** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2017-01-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-01-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-01-24** to Senate
- **2017-01-24** received from House
- **2017-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-01-31** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-01** comm rpt/substituted
- **2017-02-01** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-02** to House with amendments
- **2017-02-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-03** received from Senate
- **2017-02-03** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2017-02-06** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2017-02-06** to Senate
- **2017-02-06** received from House
- **2017-02-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-02-06** to House
- **2017-02-06** received from Senate
- **2017-02-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-02-06** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-22** 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/29abb4d0-24c7-4557-8036-11bc727a2b8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).