---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 257 State Board of Education Amendments"
description: "S.B. 257 State Board of Education Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "Utah SB 257 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "Public Education Data and Reporting", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grover, Keith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 51
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10495e73-ccbb-4765-bcea-d08e5c352fcc"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0257.html"
source_hash: "76c9315bf58ef6619e1edbb125798616dfebf6103dc198df3329f784e42c8c9f"
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 257 (2023) — S.B. 257 State Board of Education 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/SB0257S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillamd/SB0257S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0257.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with House amendment — **21–6** (pass) · upper
- failed — **3–71** (fail) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **19–6** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **57–17** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **18–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grover, Keith — primary (person)
- Abbott, Nelson T. — 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 Education 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** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** floor amendment # 1
- **2023-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-22** to House
- **2023-02-23** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** to House Education Committee
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2023-03-01** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2023-03-01** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** failed `failure`
- **2023-03-01** motion to reconsider
- **2023-03-01** circled
- **2023-03-02** uncircled
- **2023-03-02** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2023-03-02** floor amendment # 1
- **2023-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-02** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-02** to House
- **2023-03-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **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`
- **2023-03-03** 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/10495e73-ccbb-4765-bcea-d08e5c352fcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).