---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 277 Amendments to Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project"
description: "H.B. 277 Amendments to Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 277"
citation: "Utah H.B. 277 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Municipal Government", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts, Marc K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c18b755-c60b-442c-b6d4-677a2530594e"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0277.html"
source_hash: "694e9935c405eed8faa5d2a3e9811df5330d06c5b341ff5bf57d2d5a9367e2ab"
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 H.B. 277 (2019) — H.B. 277 Amendments to Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0277S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0277.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–3** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **68–1** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **64–2** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roberts, Marc K. — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-05** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-05** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-06** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-11** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2019-02-13** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-14** comm rpt/substituted
- **2019-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-22** to Senate
- **2019-02-25** received from House
- **2019-02-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2019-03-13** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** circled
- **2019-03-13** uncircled
- **2019-03-13** substituted from # 1 to # 3
- **2019-03-13** circled
- **2019-03-13** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-03-14** uncircled
- **2019-03-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-14** to House with amendments
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-03-14** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-22** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-22** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** 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/5c18b755-c60b-442c-b6d4-677a2530594e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).