---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 12 Expungement Amendments"
description: "S.B. 12 Expungement Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 12"
citation: "Utah S.B. 12 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Judiciary", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Board of Pardons and Parole"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thatcher, Daniel W."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 48
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2016-12-09"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d807b0e-8fc4-4d73-9d93-43b98843b8b4"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0012.html"
source_hash: "6e5a27a54707457661ed81b739ba8e9f89d9b5a32642216ea2253741c28a7558"
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 S.B. 12 (2017) — S.B. 12 Expungement 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/sbillint/SB0012S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillamd/SB0012S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0012.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Thatcher, Daniel W. — primary (person)
- Hutchings, Eric K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-12** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-01-24** floor amendment # 1
- **2017-01-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-01-24** to House
- **2017-01-24** received from Senate
- **2017-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-26** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-31** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-01-31** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2017-01-31** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-01** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2017-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2017-02-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-03-07** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** circled
- **2017-03-08** uncircled
- **2017-03-08** floor amendment # 4
- **2017-03-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-08** to Senate
- **2017-03-08** received from House
- **2017-03-08** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2017-03-08** circled
- **2017-03-08** uncircled
- **2017-03-08** concurs with House amendment
- **2017-03-08** to House
- **2017-03-09** received from Senate
- **2017-03-09** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-09** to Senate
- **2017-03-09** received from House
- **2017-03-09** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-10** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-10** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-17** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-17** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-20** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-24** 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/3d807b0e-8fc4-4d73-9d93-43b98843b8b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).