---
type: "Bill"
title: "Political Party Public Meeting Facilities Amendments"
description: "Political Party Public Meeting Facilities Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 238"
citation: "Utah HB 238 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Higher Education", "Open and Public Meetings", "Political Parties", "State Facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brammer, Brady"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/920fca3d-2cac-454d-bb61-4dd8ee0cfe43"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0238.html"
source_hash: "63cc27e0cdb34e97dfaf4ff3d6d877c4a3ab3ce618262a220d6f8d145b5d4329"
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 238 (2023) — Political Party Public Meeting Facilities 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/HB0238.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0238.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brammer, Brady — primary (person)
- Anderegg, Jacob L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-20** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-20** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-31** to Senate
- **2023-01-31** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2023-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-02** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-02-03** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2023-02-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-08** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-08** to House
- **2023-02-09** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-09** 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** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/920fca3d-2cac-454d-bb61-4dd8ee0cfe43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).