---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 221 Municipal Office and Local Elections"
description: "H.B. 221 Municipal Office and Local Elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 221"
citation: "Utah H.B. 221 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Law", "Voting and Voter Registration", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Municipal Officers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins, Jon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/197cab7f-abfc-474b-96af-a20e0104b05f"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0221.html"
source_hash: "a4a763278c49f53b1acc05c6a0397255d43d9eb59e4b42780a9b189488d5aa09"
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. 221 (2020) — H.B. 221 Municipal Office and Local Elections

## 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/HB0221S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0221.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–1** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **3–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with Senate amendment — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawkins, Jon — primary (person)
- Escamilla, Luz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-31** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-31** to House Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-05** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** circled
- **2020-02-13** uncircled
- **2020-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-13** to Senate
- **2020-02-13** received from House
- **2020-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-24** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-25** comm rpt/substituted
- **2020-02-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-03-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **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** to House with amendments
- **2020-03-05** received from Senate
- **2020-03-05** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2020-03-06** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2020-03-06** to Senate
- **2020-03-06** received from House
- **2020-03-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-06** to House
- **2020-03-09** received from Senate
- **2020-03-09** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-10** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-10** 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`
- **2020-03-24** 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/197cab7f-abfc-474b-96af-a20e0104b05f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).