republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/sb-277.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Government Records Management Amendments"
description: "Government Records Management Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 277"
citation: "Utah SB 277 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking", "Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Archives and Records", "Department of Government Operations", "Division of Human Resource Management", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Legislative Operations", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Sunsets and Repealers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 16
action_count: 48
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-13T19:09:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:23:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94c93b88-fd48-426b-8603-f54c62cb7322"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0277.html"
source_hash: "9708532e11b4501a8a719d722d681294f04f63cb30300028a73f3a627c0479cf"
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 277 (2025) — Government Records Management 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/SB0277.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0277 To SB0277S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0277S01 To SB0277S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0277S02 To SB0277S03.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0277S03 To SB0277S04.pdf)
6. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB277H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB277H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB277H20.pdf)
9. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB277S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB277S10.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB277S20.pdf)
12. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0277S01.xml)
13. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0277S02.xml)
14. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0277S03.xml)
15. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0277S04.xml)
16. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0277.xml)

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Moss, Jefferson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13T19:09:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-13T19:09:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-14T16:52:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-14T17:39:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T17:15:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T23:15:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-19T00:09:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T17:16:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-19T17:16:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-21T23:37:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T23:37:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-26T22:53:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T22:54:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-26T23:05:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T18:50:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-27T19:08:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-27T19:08:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-27T20:16:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T00:15:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-04T00:15:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:52:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-04T16:52:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-05T18:45:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T18:45:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-06T01:46:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-06T01:46:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-06T02:34:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-06T02:42:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-03-06T02:49:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-06T02:49:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T17:05:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T17:05:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-06T21:27:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T21:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:19:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:19:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T20:28:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T20:28:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:33:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:33:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:23:00+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/94c93b88-fd48-426b-8603-f54c62cb7322`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).