---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 267 Utah Rural Jobs Act"
description: "S.B. 267 Utah Rural Jobs Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 267"
citation: "Utah S.B. 267 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Workforce Services", "Revenue and Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Okerlund, Ralph"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-02-27"
last_action: "2017-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa77a3d3-bc5c-41a7-9760-20d1ca1e59bc"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0267.html"
source_hash: "7b938a814eee82d994805f807e8a611cee966d1251ea571df9077505f9228390"
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. 267 (2017) — S.B. 267 Utah Rural Jobs Act

## 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/SB0267S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0267.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **63–6** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Okerlund, Ralph — primary (person)
- Wilson, Brad R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-27** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-02-27** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-02-27** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-03-01** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-03-01** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-02** comm rpt/substituted
- **2017-03-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-03-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-03** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-06** to House
- **2017-03-06** received from Senate
- **2017-03-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-07** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-08** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-03-08** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2017-03-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-08** circled
- **2017-03-08** uncircled
- **2017-03-08** substituted from # 1 to # 3
- **2017-03-08** floor amendment failed
- **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** 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`
- **2017-03-22** 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/fa77a3d3-bc5c-41a7-9760-20d1ca1e59bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).