---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 264 Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Amendments"
description: "H.B. 264 Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 264"
citation: "Utah HB 264 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Election Administration", "Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Welton, Douglas R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-28"
last_action: "2022-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52d023d0-2270-4238-8d24-1cc05af7d15c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0264.html"
source_hash: "5b679afd6cc8bcfa7dd28340d1ad55c7c325023cabf133e8fefad4363754e42d"
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 264 (2022) — H.B. 264 Municipal Alternate Voting Methods 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/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0264S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0264.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **42–27** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Welton, Douglas R. — primary (person)
- Bramble, Curtis S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-28** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-31** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-02-03** to House Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-02-15** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-02-15** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-15** comm rpt/substituted
- **2022-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-17** to Senate
- **2022-02-18** received from House
- **2022-02-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-24** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-03** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2022-03-04** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-04** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-03-04** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-03-04** to House
- **2022-03-04** received from Senate
- **2022-03-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-03-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-03-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-14** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** 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/52d023d0-2270-4238-8d24-1cc05af7d15c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).