---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amendments to Election Law"
description: "Amendments to Election Law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 13"
citation: "Utah S.B. 13 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dayton, Margaret"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-12-09"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f53db957-6be0-4b5f-b633-07bf7eb441f6"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0013.html"
source_hash: "cb28240c51d691adaeefb98b66473e1be3683420946cfaa06e9b777a99aee27c"
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. 13 (2017) — Amendments to Election Law

## 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/SB0013.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillamd/SB0013.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0013.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **29–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Dayton, Margaret — primary (person)
- Perry, Lee B. — 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
- **2016-12-09** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-01-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-01-11** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-01-23** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-01-23** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2017-01-23** to House
- **2017-01-24** received from Senate
- **2017-01-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** floor amendment # 1
- **2017-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-01** to Senate
- **2017-02-02** received from House
- **2017-02-02** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2017-02-03** circled
- **2017-02-06** uncircled
- **2017-02-06** concurs with House amendment
- **2017-02-06** to House
- **2017-02-06** received from Senate
- **2017-02-06** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-02-06** to Senate
- **2017-02-06** received from House
- **2017-02-06** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-02-06** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-02-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-17** 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/f53db957-6be0-4b5f-b633-07bf7eb441f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).