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Thursday, November 5, 2026

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2026 floor votes

H.B. 536: Criminal Conduct on Public Lands 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

Signed by the governor on March 25, 2026. This bill concerns criminal conduct on public lands.

  • Defines terms
  • Creates the Public Lands Restoration and Protection Fund (fund) to be administered by the State Historic Preservation Office
  • Amends the criminal offense of defacing by graffiti on public lands, including to add conduct involving natural and archaeological features
  • Amends penalty provisions for certain criminal violations of the offense of antiquities alteration, removal, injury, or destruction
  • Provides that a court may order criminal restitution to be deposited into the fund for a violation of: defacing by graffiti, damage, or destruction on public lands; or antiquities alteration, removal, injury, or destruction, if the violation is on state lands
  • Makes technical and conforming changes

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Stewart E. Barlow

Utah House, February 26, 2026

3rd Reading, Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 536
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 68 Nays 0 N/V 7
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (65)

51 Republican, 14 Democratic

Absent or not voting (6)

6 Republican

Utah House, March 6, 2026

Concurrence, Concurred/Final Passage · 2nd Sub. HB 536
Result as recorded: Yeas 66 Nays 1 N/V 8
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (62)

48 Republican, 14 Democratic

No (1)

1 Republican

Absent or not voting (8)

8 Republican

Utah Senate, March 6, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules · 2nd Sub. HB 536
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 23 Nays 1 Abs 5
Official record

Yes (23)

17 Republican, 1 Forward, 5 Democratic

No (1)

1 Republican

Absent or not voting (5)

4 Republican, 1 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.