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2026 floor votes

H.B. 212: County Formation Amendments

3 recorded floor votes in the 2026 General Session. The bill's official page has its text, sponsors, committee votes and full history.

About this bill

Did not pass both chambers; the bill was filed on March 7, 2026. This bill modifies provisions related to the creation of a new county.

  • Defines terms
  • Establishes a process for the legislative body of a petitioning municipality to initiate a process to create a new county
  • Imposes a threshold for petitioners and certain viability requirements on the formation of a new county, including the completion of a feasibility study
  • Allows certain rural property to remain in a seceding county, in certain circumstances
  • Provides for the continuation of property taxation between a seceding county and a new county to satisfy general obligation or revenue bond indebtedness
  • Requires a new county to levy local option sales and use taxes for transportation at the same rate and in the same manner as the seceding county for transactions within the new county

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Jordan D. Teuscher

Utah House, February 20, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 1st Sub. HB 212
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 56 Nays 10 N/V 9
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (52)

48 Republican, 4 Democratic

No (10)

10 Democratic

Absent or not voting (9)

9 Republican

Utah Senate, March 6, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules · 1st Sub. HB 212
Result as recorded: Failed, Ayes 13 Nays 14 Abs 2
Official record

Yes (13)

13 Republican

No (14)

8 Republican, 1 Forward, 5 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

1 Democratic, 1 Republican

Utah Senate, March 7, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules · 1st Sub. HB 212
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 17 Nays 12 Abs 0
Official record

Yes (17)

17 Republican

No (12)

5 Republican, 1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Votes are listed as the Utah Legislature's floor vote records show them. Names are matched to today's roster, so members who have since left the Legislature aren't in the lists; the totals are the record's own. Committee votes and voice votes aren't included.