---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 37 Municipality Incorporation Amendments"
description: "S.B. 37 Municipality Incorporation Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 37"
citation: "Utah SB 37 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Incorporation", "Legislative Operations", "Local Government Boundaries", "Municipalities", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Sunsets and Repealers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 49
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-19"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/860af789-69c4-4b35-a9be-f557a60770a4"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0037.html"
source_hash: "565435845e71affebefbb376cdf428f46a05729f6f0e9fba25a6f59005a1b14d"
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 37 (2023) — S.B. 37 Municipality Incorporation 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/SB0037S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0037.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with House amendment — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Maloy, A. Cory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-13** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-17** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-01-20** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** circled
- **2023-02-13** uncircled
- **2023-02-13** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2023-02-13** circled
- **2023-02-13** uncircled
- **2023-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-13** to House
- **2023-02-13** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** circled
- **2023-02-23** uncircled
- **2023-02-23** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2023-02-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-23** to Senate
- **2023-02-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-23** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-02-24** concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-24** to House
- **2023-02-24** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-24** to Senate
- **2023-02-24** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-26** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-02-26** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-02-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **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`
- **2023-03-14** 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/860af789-69c4-4b35-a9be-f557a60770a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).