---
type: "Bill"
title: "Business Entities Amendments"
description: "Business Entities Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 231"
citation: "Utah S.B. 231 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Limited Liability Company", "State Tax Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hillyard, Lyle W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-15"
last_action: "2017-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80b5666b-f790-4dc5-9e47-cab0cf1cdacb"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0231.html"
source_hash: "c7fe016f2d5d536195c0636c36df9f5d0d2cb3a5179ffbc4236bb31f548dd6ad"
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. 231 (2017) — Business Entities 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/SB0231.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0231.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **66–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hillyard, Lyle W. — primary (person)
- Webb, R. Curt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-02-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-02-15** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-02-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-17** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-21** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2017-02-21** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2017-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-24** to House
- **2017-02-24** received from Senate
- **2017-02-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-24** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-27** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2017-02-28** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2017-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-02** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-02** to Senate
- **2017-03-02** received from House
- **2017-03-02** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-02** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-14** 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/80b5666b-f790-4dc5-9e47-cab0cf1cdacb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).