---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 73 Municipal Office Modifications"
description: "H.B. 73 Municipal Office Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 73"
citation: "Utah HB 73 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Welton, Douglas R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-16"
last_action: "2023-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87364637-0841-4f33-b5c3-907c8d3c16bc"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0073.html"
source_hash: "986be96127b91d73ccf7dff79c84852190856143ada60ea49289f3581cb5d69b"
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 73 (2023) — H.B. 73 Municipal Office Modifications

## 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/HB0073S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0073.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Welton, Douglas R. — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-21** 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`
- **2023-01-17** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-01-18** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-19** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-20** circled
- **2023-01-27** uncircled
- **2023-01-27** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2023-01-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-27** to Senate
- **2023-01-30** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-30** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-31** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-13** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-13** to House
- **2023-02-13** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-15** 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/87364637-0841-4f33-b5c3-907c8d3c16bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).