---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 176 Temporary Replacement for County Elected Officials"
description: "H.B. 176 Temporary Replacement for County Elected Officials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 176"
citation: "Utah H.B. 176 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Government", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Potter, Val K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b50d7826-6227-4831-8b95-201cb4b5653a"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0176.html"
source_hash: "49059b55652a4dd8cb38ee7ec435fbe24357a6b94b53b6abdb70d6a2b053d042"
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 H.B. 176 (2018) — H.B. 176 Temporary Replacement for County Elected Officials

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillint/HB0176S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0176.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Held — **8–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Potter, Val K. — primary (person)
- Henderson, Deidre M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-17** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-25** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-26** House Comm - Held
- **2018-01-31** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-02-02** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-02** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-05** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-02-05** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-15** to Senate
- **2018-02-16** received from House
- **2018-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-06** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** circled
- **2018-03-07** uncircled
- **2018-03-07** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-07** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-07** to House
- **2018-03-07** received from Senate
- **2018-03-07** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** 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/b50d7826-6227-4831-8b95-201cb4b5653a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).