---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 18 Online Dating Safety Amendments"
description: "H.B. 18 Online Dating Safety Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 18"
citation: "Utah HB 18 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Crimes", "Data and Cyber Security", "Domestic Violence", "Electronic Privacy", "Fraud", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Public Safety", "Public Utilities and Technology", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero, Angela"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-19"
last_action: "2023-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21a407ed-ee4c-49ff-8b7d-5f6518c7712c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0018.html"
source_hash: "d39a194d148ffd431f645aef88284623cf46deaec813d34c1c310c78e0aedb97"
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 18 (2023) — H.B. 18 Online Dating Safety 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0018S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0018.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romero, Angela — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-04** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-01-20** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-24** to Senate
- **2023-01-24** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-01-24** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-25** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-01-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-30** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-30** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** circled
- **2023-02-02** uncircled
- **2023-02-02** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-03** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-03** to House
- **2023-02-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** 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/21a407ed-ee4c-49ff-8b7d-5f6518c7712c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).