---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Retirement Withdrawal Amendments"
description: "Public Retirement Withdrawal Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 221"
citation: "Utah SB 221 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Employees Retirement", "Public Retirement and Insurance", "Public Safety Retirement", "Tier 1 Retirement", "Tier 2 Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/373c5c65-cc5b-4107-8daf-cfccd0d3f207"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0221.html"
source_hash: "1bcee8fd6c5f052fd4aea7053152dd17684fe9e7c828eed70799a4ce1ccdfb7d"
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 221 (2023) — Public Retirement Withdrawal 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/SB0221.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0221.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Albrecht, Carl R. — 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** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-02-13** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-15** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-15** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-17** circled
- **2023-02-17** uncircled
- **2023-02-17** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** circled
- **2023-02-21** uncircled
- **2023-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-21** to House
- **2023-02-22** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2023-02-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-02-28** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **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`
- **2023-03-03** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-03** 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`
- **2023-03-23** 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/373c5c65-cc5b-4107-8daf-cfccd0d3f207`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).