---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 98 Excess Damages Claims"
description: "S.B. 98 Excess Damages Claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 98"
citation: "Utah S.B. 98 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governmental Immunity", "Legislative Affairs", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "State Boards", "Commissions", "and Councils", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Iwamoto, Jani"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-23"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38d82cb8-5d64-46f6-bdfc-2d7a1033ab2a"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0098.html"
source_hash: "b61972b1494e8869fbcfc76cc7ed19bad5cef8abf34750c671f9f0b9da1dd244"
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. 98 (2017) — S.B. 98 Excess Damages Claims

## 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/SB0098S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0098.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Iwamoto, Jani — primary (person)
- Snow, V. Lowry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-23** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-01-23** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-24** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-26** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-30** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-31** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-31** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-02-14** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2017-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-02-15** circled
- **2017-02-15** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-17** uncircled
- **2017-02-17** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** floor amendment # verbal
- **2017-02-21** circled
- **2017-02-24** uncircled
- **2017-02-24** substituted from # 1 to # 2
- **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** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-24** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-01** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-01** to Senate
- **2017-03-01** received from House
- **2017-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-02** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-16** 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`
- **2017-03-20** 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/38d82cb8-5d64-46f6-bdfc-2d7a1033ab2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).