---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Accident Cost Recovery"
description: "Motor Vehicle Accident Cost Recovery"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 27"
citation: "Utah S.B. 27 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2016-12-13"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/403bdd46-d168-482a-9a01-e86edd3e80f7"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0027.html"
source_hash: "28a6c93b60e19b777b97d28633bb60e54b93520868a38034bab05a55431eda2e"
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. 27 (2017) — Motor Vehicle Accident Cost Recovery

## 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/SB0027.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0027.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Westwood, John R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-13** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-13** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2016-12-13** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-01-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **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 & 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 Transportation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-01** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-02-01** to Senate
- **2017-02-02** received from House
- **2017-02-02** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-02-04** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-02-20** 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`
- **2017-03-20** 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/403bdd46-d168-482a-9a01-e86edd3e80f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).