---
type: "Bill"
title: "Candidate Licensing Amendments"
description: "Candidate Licensing Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 290"
citation: "Utah SB 290 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Constitutional Officers", "Elected Official", "Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pitcher, Stephanie"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 51
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-17T17:55:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:51:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9fc997c-430c-4f45-aee5-b1b92aef04e8"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0290.html"
source_hash: "013129f3f4d0be4de192e69407f8f162194754ba27d6215f4241212a891bf127"
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 290 (2025) — Candidate Licensing 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0290.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0290 To SB0290S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0290S01 To SB0290S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0290S02 To SB0290S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB290H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB290H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB290H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB290S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB290S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB290S20.pdf)
11. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0290S01.xml)
12. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0290S02.xml)
13. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0290S03.xml)
14. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0290.xml)

## Sponsors

- Pitcher, Stephanie — primary (person)
- Teuscher, Jordan D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17T17:55:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-17T17:55:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-18T15:45:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T17:19:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-19T20:56:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T21:12:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T15:56:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-24T15:59:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-24T19:01:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-24T19:01:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-25T18:35:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:35:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-25T21:55:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-25T21:57:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-25T21:59:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T17:58:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26T18:00:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T18:00:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-26T19:38:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T21:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T02:04:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:52:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:52:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T01:53:00+00:00** House/ 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2025-03-07T17:23:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T03:19:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T03:24:00+00:00** House/ motion to reconsider
- **2025-03-08T03:25:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-08T03:26:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:26:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T04:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T04:53:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-08T06:35:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T06:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T09:38:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T09:38:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T09:38:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-12T19:49:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T19:49:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-12T22:59:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-12T22:59:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T20:46:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T20:46:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:39:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:40:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:51:00+00:00** 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/f9fc997c-430c-4f45-aee5-b1b92aef04e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).