---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 157 County Office Consolidation Amendments"
description: "H.B. 157 County Office Consolidation Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 157"
citation: "Utah HB 157 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "County Officers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Petersen, Michael J."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-12-29"
last_action: "2023-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75139af9-9d67-4cd7-9741-09476c96a388"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0157.html"
source_hash: "35ed3cdde6264d8a31da0308e5bd1a435644d0775bb946f4036f441c58dc39a7"
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 HB 157 (2023) — H.B. 157 County Office Consolidation 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/hbillint/HB0157S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillamd/HB0157S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0157.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Petersen, Michael J. — primary (person)
- Buxton, David G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-24** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-25** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2023-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-31** held
- **2023-02-01** to Senate
- **2023-02-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** circled
- **2023-02-14** uncircled
- **2023-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-15** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-15** to House
- **2023-02-15** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-15** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-17** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** 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/75139af9-9d67-4cd7-9741-09476c96a388`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).