---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 173 Vote Reporting Requirements"
description: "H.B. 173 Vote Reporting Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 173"
citation: "Utah HB 173 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall, Craig"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-15"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d6d91c83-053e-4609-9357-0e51a137f234"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0173.html"
source_hash: "930dc02f60a6ec875836cfd77385f1853b0d6c130474a00ed4f74de4060028c8"
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 HB 173 (2021) — H.B. 173 Vote Reporting Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0173S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0173.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall, Craig — primary (person)
- Thatcher, Daniel W. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-25** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-25** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-01-28** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-01-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-29** comm rpt/substituted
- **2021-01-29** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-04** to Senate
- **2021-02-05** received from House
- **2021-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-25** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-26** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-26** to House
- **2021-02-26** received from Senate
- **2021-02-26** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-03** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-03-03** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-11** 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/d6d91c83-053e-4609-9357-0e51a137f234`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).