---
type: "Bill"
title: "Election Law Changes"
description: "Election Law Changes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 491"
citation: "Utah H.B. 491 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edwards, Rebecca P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-06"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36780593-b47f-4d7b-9c29-29e3dbfeeac3"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0491.html"
source_hash: "3b829b30eb00421ca7bf93bc3b96e03aaf63398137f289db6c98f533d2197d00"
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. 491 (2018) — Election Law Changes

## 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/HB0491.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0491.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **65–4** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Edwards, Rebecca P. — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-06** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-03-06** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-03-06** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-03-06** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-03-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-03-07** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-03-07** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-03-07** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-07** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-08** to Senate
- **2018-03-08** received from House
- **2018-03-08** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-08** to House
- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-26** 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/36780593-b47f-4d7b-9c29-29e3dbfeeac3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).