---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 223 Unlawful Installation of a Tracking Device"
description: "H.B. 223 Unlawful Installation of a Tracking Device"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 223"
citation: "Utah H.B. 223 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Code", "Offenses", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Poulson, Marie H."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 63
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/072f453d-5d4e-4d27-9277-6a9e9b623fb3"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0223.html"
source_hash: "e4346f6a0a46c4a57477fd0a73cbbdcabd4b6f8b92308401c801981f1cfa7694"
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. 223 (2019) — H.B. 223 Unlawful Installation of a Tracking Device

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0223S05.pdf)
2. **Conference Committee Report 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/comreport/HB223C10.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0223.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–1** (pass) · lower
- House Conference Committee - Final Passage — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **23–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage — **18–9** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **51–21** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- substitute adoption failed from # 0 to # 2 — **19–49** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Poulson, Marie H. — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-05** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** circled
- **2019-02-27** uncircled
- **2019-02-27** floor amendment # 1
- **2019-02-27** substitute adoption failed from # 0 to # 2
- **2019-02-27** floor amendment # 2
- **2019-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-27** to Senate
- **2019-02-28** received from House
- **2019-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2019-03-13** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-14** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** substituted from # 0 to # 3
- **2019-03-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-14** to House with amendments
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-03-14** refuse to concur with Senate amendment
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** refused to recede from Senate amendments
- **2019-03-14** Senate Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** House Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** Bill Substituted by Conference Committee from # 3 to # 5
- **2019-03-14** Conference Committee Report
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2019-03-14** Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-03-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2019-03-14** House Conference Committee - Final Passage
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-22** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-22** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-27** 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/072f453d-5d4e-4d27-9277-6a9e9b623fb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).