---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Land Purchase Restrictions"
description: "State Land Purchase Restrictions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 186"
citation: "Utah HB 186 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Public Lands", "Real Property", "State Lands"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pierucci, Candice B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-01-09"
last_action: "2023-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3b93be2-81c0-4889-a426-077732e8b262"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0186.html"
source_hash: "7b84415e3db93bb3d4f9b29e73a40b0dbad37c547cb91e486a4208a10780928e"
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 186 (2023) — State Land Purchase Restrictions

## 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/HB0186.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0186.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pierucci, Candice B. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-09** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-12** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2023-02-10** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-14** to Senate
- **2023-02-15** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2023-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-02** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-03-02** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-03-02** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to House
- **2023-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-03-03** 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/d3b93be2-81c0-4889-a426-077732e8b262`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).