---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal Code Amendments"
description: "Criminal Code Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 353"
citation: "Utah HB 353 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice", "Crimes", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Punishment", "Sentencing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilcox, Ryan D."]
version_count: 19
action_count: 44
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-29T15:37:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:58:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3af811f2-0549-4997-91d8-725bf505e010"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0353.html"
source_hash: "3b7cd27083d163649c489f66d134277cbf6dca67b6458252ffd79aba2c6ad13e"
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 353 (2025) — Criminal Code 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/HB0353.xml)
2. **Amended 2/26/2025 09:02:674** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0353S02_2025-02-26_09-06-51.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/26/2025 09:02:674** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0353S02_2025-02-26_09-06-51.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0353 To HB0353S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0353S01 To HB0353S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0353S02 To HB0353S03.pdf)
7. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0353S03 To HB0353S04.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0353S01.Hamd.1.pdf)
9. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB353H10.pdf)
10. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB353H20.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB353H30.pdf)
12. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB353S10.pdf)
13. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB353S10.pdf)
14. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB353S20.pdf)
15. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0353S01.xml)
16. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0353S02.xml)
17. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0353S03.xml)
18. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0353S04.xml)
19. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0353.xml)

## Sponsors

- Wilcox, Ryan D. — primary (person)
- Brammer, Brady — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29T15:37:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-29T15:37:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-29T17:09:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-29T18:14:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-04T17:02:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-04T18:55:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T00:32:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-07T00:33:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-07T18:07:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-07T18:07:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-18T18:08:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-18T18:09:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-18T18:13:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-18T18:14:00+00:00** House/ held
- **2025-02-19T17:17:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-19T19:13:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T21:16:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-21T21:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T00:34:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-26T00:37:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T17:39:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-26T17:39:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T23:03:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T03:58:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T03:59:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-08T04:01:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T04:01:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-08T04:51:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:51:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T05:37:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:37:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T07:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:37:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-12T22:20:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-12T22:20:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T03:29:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T03:29:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:31:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:31:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:58:00+00:00** Became Law w/o Governor Signature `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3af811f2-0549-4997-91d8-725bf505e010`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).