---
type: "Bill"
title: "Reading Assessment Expansion Amendments"
description: "Reading Assessment Expansion Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "S.B. 73"
citation: "Utah S.B. 73 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "Standards and Curriculum", "Student Assessment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stevenson, Jerry W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-24"
last_action: "2020-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70ce4134-4ae4-40dc-b9dc-16ee59d202e8"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/SB0073.html"
source_hash: "d0e2962cc8aecfcf52563207c28840b1464363a05bf9743e30464b8284785556"
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. 73 (2020) — Reading Assessment Expansion 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/sbillint/SB0073.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/sbillenr/SB0073.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **64–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **21–2** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stevenson, Jerry W. — primary (person)
- Snow, V. Lowry — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-24** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-24** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-24** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-27** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-01-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-02-03** to Senate Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** circled
- **2020-02-20** uncircled
- **2020-02-20** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** circled
- **2020-02-26** uncircled
- **2020-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-26** to House
- **2020-02-26** received from Senate
- **2020-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-27** to House Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-03** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2020-03-10** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-10** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2020-03-10** to Senate
- **2020-03-10** received from House
- **2020-03-10** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-10** Bill Received from Senate 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
- **2020-03-28** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-28** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-30** 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/70ce4134-4ae4-40dc-b9dc-16ee59d202e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).