---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 448 Election Changes"
description: "H.B. 448 Election Changes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 448"
citation: "Utah HB 448 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Public Safety", "Election Administration", "Election Law", "Electronic Databases", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Lieutenant Governor", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maloy, A. Cory"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7db49fdb-ba96-454c-b937-f0448d419c91"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0448.html"
source_hash: "b3fd6f7bf019f6d7a461b1aa2a917c2840c8d5f085215fe2b5e62bb1a50a0e14"
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 448 (2023) — H.B. 448 Election Changes

## 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/HB0448S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0448.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maloy, A. Cory — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Michael S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-13** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-13** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-22** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2023-02-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-22** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2023-02-22** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-23** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** circled
- **2023-02-24** uncircled
- **2023-02-24** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2023-02-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-24** to Senate
- **2023-02-24** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** to Senate Education Committee
- **2023-02-25** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-03-01** to House
- **2023-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-03-02** 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`
- **2023-03-15** 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/7db49fdb-ba96-454c-b937-f0448d419c91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).