---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ethics Amendments"
description: "Ethics Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 216"
citation: "Utah S.B. 216 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Ethics", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bramble, Curtis S."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-20"
last_action: "2018-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8d66f2cc-d6c1-4dec-a291-b82314f73e81"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0216.html"
source_hash: "9fe1355b37ea322a9ba7e6deeb07cf5f488bbdda5080c17b481995b1e71eb3f6"
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. 216 (2018) — Ethics Amendments

## 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/sbillint/SB0216.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0216.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Bramble, Curtis S. — primary (person)
- Snow, V. Lowry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-02-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-02-20** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-02-21** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-28** to House
- **2018-02-28** received from Senate
- **2018-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-02** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** House Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2018-03-06** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2018-03-08** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-08** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-03-08** to Senate
- **2018-03-09** received from House
- **2018-03-09** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-03-13** 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** received enrolled bill from 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/8d66f2cc-d6c1-4dec-a291-b82314f73e81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).