---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 40 Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission Amendments"
description: "H.B. 40 Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 40"
citation: "Utah HB 40 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking", "Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Election Administration", "Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Judges", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Rulemaking Procedures", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abbott, Nelson T."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-02-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adae0b88-7bcb-4c71-94ba-6b8d89c7411f"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0040.html"
source_hash: "f5069854879f549a40398312676e91ae29fccbb3ddbe2b884535ab7f17be6b5a"
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 40 (2022) — H.B. 40 Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission 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/HB0040S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0040.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Abbott, Nelson T. — primary (person)
- Iwamoto, Jani — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-12-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-12** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-18** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2022-01-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-18** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-01-18** circled
- **2022-01-20** uncircled
- **2022-01-20** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-01-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-01-20** to Senate
- **2022-01-21** received from House
- **2022-01-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-01-26** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-31** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2022-02-01** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2022-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-04** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-02-04** to House
- **2022-02-04** received from Senate
- **2022-02-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-02-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-02-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-02-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-02-10** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-11** 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/adae0b88-7bcb-4c71-94ba-6b8d89c7411f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).