---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 309 County Recorder Amendments"
description: "H.B. 309 County Recorder Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 309"
citation: "Utah HB 309 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Officers", "Local Government Employees", "Local Taxation and Fees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judkins, Marsha"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-27"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eaa7f2b8-152d-4b2e-b8f1-6b3e6b2bf422"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0309.html"
source_hash: "9cf25d59e9dd217e1ead4f37eb4f43a0ff4a1084e6496f3b8de5d2e043b85aae"
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 309 (2023) — H.B. 309 County Recorder 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/HB0309S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0309.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Judkins, Marsha — primary (person)
- Grover, Keith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-27** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-09** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-14** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2023-02-14** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-15** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-16** to Senate
- **2023-02-17** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions 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
- **2023-03-03** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-03-03** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-03-03** to House
- **2023-03-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-03-06** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-14** 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/eaa7f2b8-152d-4b2e-b8f1-6b3e6b2bf422`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).