---
type: "Bill"
title: "Firefighter Retirement Amendments"
description: "Firefighter Retirement Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 173"
citation: "Utah H.B. 173 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Retirement and Insurance", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "State Officers and Employees", "Firefighters' Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snider, Casey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ec5acc4-22a4-4ca8-81ec-49524eaa6b06"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0173.html"
source_hash: "cc503c90fb205e3720a90cd138c835b828f13f356378ebf3a52c6ec3994ea067"
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. 173 (2020) — Firefighter Retirement 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/HB0173.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0173.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Snider, Casey — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-22** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-23** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** to House Retirement and Independent Entities Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2020-02-20** to Senate Retirement and Independent Entities Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** circled
- **2020-03-04** uncircled
- **2020-03-04** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-05** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-05** to House
- **2020-03-05** received from Senate
- **2020-03-05** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-05** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-05** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-23** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-23** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-28** 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/3ec5acc4-22a4-4ca8-81ec-49524eaa6b06`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).