---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 233 Portable Benefit Plan"
description: "S.B. 233 Portable Benefit Plan"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 233"
citation: "Utah SB 233 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Division of Human Resource Management", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Health Insurance", "Insurance", "Life Insurance and Annuities", "Motor Vehicle Insurance", "Property and Casualty Insurance", "Title and Escrow"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, John D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c648b1f4-2b11-4c7e-b774-c12bfccc18e2"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0233.html"
source_hash: "9339411492655f8aae8484f0c0afbde89f95a0f6659d96a94ddeb5196fda1973"
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 233 (2023) — S.B. 233 Portable Benefit Plan

## 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/SB0233S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0233.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–1** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson, John D. — primary (person)
- Wilcox, Ryan D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-14** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** circled
- **2023-02-23** uncircled
- **2023-02-23** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** circled
- **2023-02-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-24** uncircled
- **2023-02-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-24** to House
- **2023-02-24** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **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
- **2023-03-09** 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`
- **2023-03-23** 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/c648b1f4-2b11-4c7e-b774-c12bfccc18e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).