---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 55 Public School Instructional Material Requirements"
description: "S.B. 55 Public School Instructional Material Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 55"
citation: "Utah SB 55 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "Online Learning and/or Technology", "School Districts", "Standards and Curriculum", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fillmore, Lincoln"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 58
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-12-27"
last_action: "2023-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ae37b1a-84d1-47f5-b771-6aaf0485fd5c"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0055.html"
source_hash: "f9beb92a6e72dacc91469fae1d25ac36f9883f85d76297785a2f5af04cac4d96"
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 55 (2023) — S.B. 55 Public School Instructional Material Requirements

## 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/SB0055S01.pdf)
2. **Conference Committee Report 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/comreport/SB055C10.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0055.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- floor amendment # 3 — **39–27** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **61–5** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- House Conference Committee - Final Passage — **56–14** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fillmore, Lincoln — primary (person)
- Ballard, Melissa G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-27** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-11** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-17** to Senate Education Committee
- **2023-01-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-06** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-07** floor amendment failed # 2 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-02-07** floor amendment # 1
- **2023-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-07** to House
- **2023-02-08** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-08** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** to House Education Committee
- **2023-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** floor amendment # 3
- **2023-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-22** to Senate
- **2023-02-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-23** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-02-24** refuse to concur with House amendments
- **2023-02-24** to House
- **2023-02-24** refused to recede from House amendment
- **2023-02-24** House Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** to Senate
- **2023-02-27** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Senate Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-27** Bill Substituted by Conference Committee from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-27** Conference Committee Report
- **2023-02-27** House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2023-02-27** House Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to Senate
- **2023-02-27** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2023-02-27** Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-28** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-02-28** to Senate
- **2023-02-28** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-28** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-28** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-02-28** 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`
- **2023-03-17** 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/8ae37b1a-84d1-47f5-b771-6aaf0485fd5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).