---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 17 Congressional Vacancies Amendments"
description: "H.B. 17 Congressional Vacancies Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 17"
citation: "Utah H.B. 17 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson, Merrill F."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-12-20"
last_action: "2020-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2c2e83d-4dfd-47aa-8d41-be112a843b06"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0017.html"
source_hash: "de8eb7ed1f65597a90efae8ad3d164f6d978bfc84f006d57a3471d116ef8035a"
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. 17 (2020) — H.B. 17 Congressional Vacancies Amendments

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0017S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0017.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **58–16** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **21–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelson, Merrill F. — primary (person)
- Thatcher, Daniel W. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-12-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-28** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-01-31** House Comm - Held
- **2020-02-04** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-04** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** comm rpt/substituted
- **2020-02-05** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-06** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-02-06** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-11** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-11** to Senate
- **2020-02-11** received from House
- **2020-02-11** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-18** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-20** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-02-20** to House
- **2020-02-20** received from Senate
- **2020-02-20** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-02-21** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-02-21** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-02-25** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-02-25** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-02-25** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-02-25** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-02** 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/e2c2e83d-4dfd-47aa-8d41-be112a843b06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).