---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 173 Alcoholic Beverage Control Act Amendments"
description: "S.B. 173 Alcoholic Beverage Control Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 173"
citation: "Utah SB 173 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Airports", "Alcohol", "Business", "Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services", "Department of Public Safety", "Food Services and Drinking Places", "Hotels and Hotel Keepers", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stevenson, Jerry W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 49
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-02"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9140d389-aa90-4038-be8c-5c58e0e3ca8b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0173.html"
source_hash: "75c818361a2966253fd8ba7678ccb7484fc989176d2fd74668537e537bd9b94c"
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 SB 173 (2023) — S.B. 173 Alcoholic Beverage Control Act 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/sbillint/SB0173S05.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0173.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **24–2** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **21–3** (pass) · upper
- concurs with House amendment — **26–2** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–2** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stevenson, Jerry W. — primary (person)
- Burton, Jefferson S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-02** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-02** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-03** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-16** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-21** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** circled
- **2023-02-24** uncircled
- **2023-02-24** substituted from # 1 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2023-02-24** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** circled
- **2023-02-27** uncircled
- **2023-02-27** floor amendment # 1
- **2023-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-02** circled
- **2023-03-02** uncircled
- **2023-03-02** substituted from # 3 to # 5 `substitution`
- **2023-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-03-03** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-03-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-03** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-03** to House
- **2023-03-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-03** to Senate
- **2023-03-03** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Bill Received from Senate 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`
- **2023-03-17** 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/9140d389-aa90-4038-be8c-5c58e0e3ca8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).