---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 250 Public Surveillance Amendments"
description: "S.B. 250 Public Surveillance Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 250"
citation: "Utah SB 250 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic Privacy", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Local Governments", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCay, Daniel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/27bcfcfc-e87f-44b9-be4b-99026b4cfc48"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0250.html"
source_hash: "544920f0035019203ec3092d7c3fe9aff3f81327eb86979bdb779996563f5c69"
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 250 (2023) — S.B. 250 Public Surveillance 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/SB0250S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0250.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- failed — **8–18** (fail) · upper
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **68–3** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCay, Daniel — primary (person)
- Wilcox, Ryan D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-17** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-02-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2023-02-24** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** circled
- **2023-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-28** uncircled
- **2023-02-28** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-28** failed `failure`
- **2023-02-28** filed `filing`
- **2023-02-28** motion to reconsider
- **2023-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28** circled
- **2023-02-28** uncircled
- **2023-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-02-28** to House
- **2023-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-03** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **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`
- **2023-03-23** 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/27bcfcfc-e87f-44b9-be4b-99026b4cfc48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).