---
type: "Bill"
title: "Property Tax Definition Amendment"
description: "Property Tax Definition Amendment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "S.B. 263"
citation: "Utah S.B. 263 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Property Tax", "Revenue and Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weiler, Todd"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-04-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68130771-26e2-4130-a457-ca799c330f2e"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/SB0263.html"
source_hash: "9722f9d4641fd37ef1ab18d826e33ef6d46fe1b309014b3aefc707481dd752dd"
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. 263 (2019) — Property Tax Definition Amendment

## 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/sbillint/SB0263.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/sbillamd/SB0263.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/sbillenr/SB0263.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **62–5** (pass) · lower
- concurs with House amendment — **24–2** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weiler, Todd — primary (person)
- Hawkes, Timothy D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-03-06** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-03-06** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-03-07** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-03-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2019-03-08** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** comm rpt/amended
- **2019-03-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-08** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-03-11** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-03-11** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** circled
- **2019-03-11** uncircled
- **2019-03-11** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-11** to House
- **2019-03-11** received from Senate
- **2019-03-11** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** floor amendment # 2
- **2019-03-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-03-14** concurs with House amendment
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-01** 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/68130771-26e2-4130-a457-ca799c330f2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).