---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 313 Election Security Amendments"
description: "H.B. 313 Election Security Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 313"
citation: "Utah HB 313 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Officers", "Election Administration", "Election Law", "Electronic Databases", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Lieutenant Governor", "Public Utilities and Technology", "Technology", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins, Jon"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d1dfb162-f9f5-47cf-aa4b-399516c869da"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0313.html"
source_hash: "a733258f5e54b1680e80663b4c57a1767f0dd5d467176d2c6cfed529c270a8f8"
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 313 (2022) — H.B. 313 Election Security 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/HB0313S03.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillamd/HB0313S03.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0313.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–7** (pass) · upper
- concurs with Senate amendment — **56–14** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **65–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hawkins, Jon — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-02-03** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-02-04** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-02-04** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-02-11** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **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`
- **2022-02-22** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2022-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-24** comm rpt/amended
- **2022-02-24** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-03-02** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** circled
- **2022-03-02** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-03-02** uncircled
- **2022-03-02** substituted from # 2 to # 3
- **2022-03-02** circled
- **2022-03-02** uncircled
- **2022-03-02** floor amendment # 1
- **2022-03-02** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-03-02** to House with amendments
- **2022-03-03** received from Senate
- **2022-03-03** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2022-03-03** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2022-03-03** to Senate
- **2022-03-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-03-03** received from House
- **2022-03-03** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-03-03** to House
- **2022-03-03** received from Senate
- **2022-03-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-03-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-03-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-14** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-14** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-14** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-22** 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/d1dfb162-f9f5-47cf-aa4b-399516c869da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).