---
type: "Bill"
title: "Poll Hours for Early Voting"
description: "Poll Hours for Early Voting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "S.B. 61"
citation: "Utah S.B. 61 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Government Operations (State Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Iwamoto, Jani"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f0771f2-8912-47e2-9e59-e19efe156351"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/SB0061.html"
source_hash: "ddfd493b4fa379cf56dffdf3be09dd2a423a06e0f2ff58906a9cc4c006a4b841"
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 S.B. 61 (2019) — Poll Hours for Early Voting

## 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/sbillint/SB0061.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/sbillenr/SB0061.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **23–1** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Iwamoto, Jani — primary (person)
- Eliason, Steve — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-08** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-08** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-01-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-01-25** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-01** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-01** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-12** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-13** to House
- **2019-02-13** received from Senate
- **2019-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-27** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2019-02-27** to Senate
- **2019-02-27** received from House
- **2019-02-27** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2019-02-28** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2019-02-28** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-19** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-19** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-21** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** 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/0f0771f2-8912-47e2-9e59-e19efe156351`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).