---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Registration Amendments"
description: "Motor Vehicle Registration Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 55"
citation: "Utah S.B. 55 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 46
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-12-15"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be3f669f-d90b-4ab1-a1f8-efd26830c5cd"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0055.html"
source_hash: "518224be89adabba081617deab497daab31ab3ba0ab5c542afe55866dd9d4706"
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. 55 (2018) — Motor Vehicle Registration 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/SB0055.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillamd/SB0055.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0055.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Hutchings, Eric K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-12-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-12-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-01-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2018-01-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-25** comm rpt/amended
- **2018-01-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-05** to House
- **2018-02-05** received from Senate
- **2018-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-08** to House Transportation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2018-02-09** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-12** comm rpt/amended
- **2018-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** circled
- **2018-02-14** uncircled
- **2018-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-14** to Senate
- **2018-02-14** received from House
- **2018-02-14** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2018-02-15** concurs with House amendment
- **2018-02-15** to House
- **2018-02-15** received from Senate
- **2018-02-15** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-02-15** to Senate
- **2018-02-16** received from House
- **2018-02-16** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-02-19** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-02-19** 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** received enrolled bill from 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/be3f669f-d90b-4ab1-a1f8-efd26830c5cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).