---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 185 Transportation Amendments"
description: "S.B. 185 Transportation Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 185"
citation: "Utah SB 185 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Active Transportation", "Department of Transportation", "Local Option Sales Taxes", "Transportation", "Transportation Funding", "Transportation Investment Fund of 2005"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 52
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-06"
last_action: "2023-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2efffeb6-c430-4708-8d5f-ec19ef42da1c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0185.html"
source_hash: "85efd710beee17af26d0d641520b76e27aefd9f62ac8416755a54cd639108f69"
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 185 (2023) — S.B. 185 Transportation 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/SB0185S04.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0185.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 2 to # 3 — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **62–5** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with House amendment — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **23–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Christofferson, Kay J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-06** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-06** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-07** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
- **2023-02-09** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-09** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-09** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-09** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-13** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** circled
- **2023-02-14** uncircled
- **2023-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-14** to House
- **2023-02-14** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** to House Transportation Committee
- **2023-02-27** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 2 to # 3
- **2023-02-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-27** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2023-02-28** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** circled
- **2023-03-01** uncircled
- **2023-03-01** substituted from # 3 to # 4 `substitution`
- **2023-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-01** to Senate
- **2023-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-03-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-03-01** circled
- **2023-03-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-01** uncircled
- **2023-03-01** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-01** to House
- **2023-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-03** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-03** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-08** 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/2efffeb6-c430-4708-8d5f-ec19ef42da1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).