---
type: "Bill"
title: "Interfering with a Peace Officer"
description: "Interfering with a Peace Officer"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 239"
citation: "Utah S.B. 239 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Peace Officer", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weiler, Todd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-16"
last_action: "2017-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2794cf6b-ebe0-48db-aedc-cf43ef8efd08"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0239.html"
source_hash: "0205aed1152b024d9b762a021dc9f06e30e0ae705711a7b75c4cde5100cd66c1"
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. 239 (2017) — Interfering with a Peace Officer

## 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/SB0239.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillamd/SB0239.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0239.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Weiler, Todd — primary (person)
- Gardiner, Adam — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-02-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-02-16** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-02-17** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-21** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2017-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** comm rpt/amended
- **2017-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-01** to House
- **2017-03-01** received from Senate
- **2017-03-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-01** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-03** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-07** to Senate
- **2017-03-07** received from House
- **2017-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-16** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-23** 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/2794cf6b-ebe0-48db-aedc-cf43ef8efd08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).