---
type: "Bill"
title: "Traffic Safety Amendments"
description: "Traffic Safety Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Utah SB 23 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Public Safety", "Department of Transportation", "Roads/Highways", "Transportation", "Utah Highway Patrol"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-12-16"
last_action: "2023-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6246bafe-993c-4778-90dc-6ccdd8aa81aa"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0023.html"
source_hash: "2f56e0c10dcabce157131cf76f72fb62330914a505054a5a09e0d341df5eea76"
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 23 (2023) — Traffic Safety 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/SB0023.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0023.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Pierucci, Candice B. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-12-19** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-17** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-01-17** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-01-17** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-01-17** to House
- **2023-01-18** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** to House Transportation Committee
- **2023-01-20** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-25** circled
- **2023-01-25** uncircled
- **2023-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-25** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-01-25** to Senate
- **2023-01-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-02-14** 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`
- **2023-03-20** 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/6246bafe-993c-4778-90dc-6ccdd8aa81aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).