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State Government / Utah / Legislation / HB 27

HB 27Session 2026HouseIn committee

Signature Verification Revisions

Official source overview

This bill amends provisions related to candidate nomination petitions.

Published by Utah State Legislature for H.B. 27 S1. Civixly has formatted, but not rewritten, the official text.

Latest development · Mar 7, 2026

House/ filed

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Official Utah record ↗
Session
2026
Introduced
Dec 5, 2025
Latest passage
Date unavailable
Key provisionsTopicsSponsorsActionsRelated billsDiscussion

Official highlighted provisions

What the bill would do

These points come from the Utah Legislature’s published bill overview.

  • requires an election official to post the name, voter precinct number, and date of signature of a registered voter who signs a candidate nomination petition on the lieutenant governor's website for at least 90 days after the date of an election;
  • requires an election official to send an email notice to a registered voter described above informing the voter that: the voter's name and voter-related information is posted on the lieutenant governor's website; and the voter may request to have the voter's signature removed from the candidate nomination petition by submitting a written statement to the election official requesting removal of the signature;
  • requires an election official to make the website posting described above regardless of whether the voter's voter registration record is classified as a private record;
  • amends candidate nomination petition forms to include information notifying a voter of the posting and signature removal processes described above;
  • for a candidate seeking the nomination of a qualified political party to an elective office through signature gathering, shortens the deadline for the candidate to submit signatures to an election official from 14 to 21 days before the day on which the qualified political party holds a convention to nominate a candidate for the same elective office; and
  • makes technical and conforming changes.
Verify this overview with the Utah Legislature ↗

Topics and classification

Civixly topics

HousingElections & Government

Source subjects

Elected OfficialElection AdministrationGovernment Operations (State Issues)Lieutenant GovernorVoting and Voter Registration

Document type

Bill

Sponsors

Primary sponsors are listed before cosponsors and other sponsoring entities.

Primary sponsorShepherd, Lisa
cosponsorBalderree, Heidi

Action timeline

Newest action first. Action language is supplied by the state source.

View full action timeline23 actions⌄
  1. Mar 7, 2026

    House/ filed

    FilingHouse
  2. Mar 7, 2026

    House/ strike enacting clause

    House
  3. Mar 5, 2026

    House/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules [House Rules Committee]

    House
  4. Mar 3, 2026

    House Comm - Recommends Returned to Rules [House Government Operations Committee]

    House
  5. Jan 23, 2026

    House/ to standing committee [House Government Operations Committee]

    Referral CommitteeHouse
  6. Jan 23, 2026

    Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm [House Rules Committee]

    SubstitutionHouse
  7. Jan 22, 2026

    House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst

    ReceiptHouse
  8. Jan 21, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0027S01

    Utah State Legislature
  9. Jan 21, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  10. Jan 21, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027S01

    Utah State Legislature
  11. Jan 20, 2026

    House/ 1st reading (Introduced)

    House
  12. Jan 20, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  13. Jan 20, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  14. Jan 18, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  15. Jan 17, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  16. Jan 17, 2026

    LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0027S01

    Utah State Legislature
  17. Jan 17, 2026

    LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0027S01

    Utah State Legislature
  18. Jan 14, 2026

    House/ received bill from Legislative Research

    ReceiptHouse
  19. Jan 12, 2026

    LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  20. Dec 5, 2025

    LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  21. Dec 5, 2025

    LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0027

    Utah State Legislature
  22. Dec 5, 2025

    Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed

    Utah State Legislature
  23. Dec 5, 2025

    Bill Numbered but not Distributed

    Utah State Legislature

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State legislative data provided by Open States and linked legislature sources when available.

Bill overview text and highlighted provisions are published by the Utah State Legislature and are not rewritten by Civixly.

Civixly tracks state bill actions, passage dates, and sponsors. Member-level state roll-call histories are not included.

Source data last updated Jul 9, 2026.