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2026 floor votes

H.B. 279: Higher Education Code Amendments

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

Utah House, February 5, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 279
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 71 Nays 0 N/V 4
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (67)

54 Republican, 13 Democratic

Absent or not voting (4)

1 Democratic, 3 Republican

Utah Senate, February 18, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on Second · 2nd Sub. HB 279
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 26 Nays 0 Abs 3
Official record

Yes (26)

20 Republican, 1 Forward, 5 Democratic

Absent or not voting (3)

2 Republican, 1 Democratic

Utah Senate, February 19, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 279
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 26 Nays 0 Abs 3
Official record

Yes (26)

19 Republican, 1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Absent or not voting (3)

3 Republican

Utah House, February 20, 2026

Concurrence, Motion to Concur · 2nd Sub. HB 279
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 72 Nays 0 N/V 3
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (69)

55 Republican, 14 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

2 Republican

Utah House, February 22, 2026

Concurrence, Concurred/Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 279
Result as recorded: Yeas 72 Nays 0 N/V 3
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (69)

55 Republican, 14 Democratic

Absent or not voting (2)

2 Republican

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.