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2026 floor votes

S.B. 18: Criminal Offense Modifications

2 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 7, 2026. This bill makes technical corrections regarding certain criminal offenses.

  • Corrects a cross reference concerning the criminal offense of prohibited conduct in the sale of a dangerous weapon
  • Corrects subsection numbering errors in the criminal offense of sexual battery
  • Amends the criminal offense of distributing material harmful to minors to include a penalty provision that was inadvertently omitted from a technical recodification bill in the 2025 General Session and makes additional technical corrections to the penalty provisions of the criminal offense
  • Revises the criminal offense of public assistance fraud by a recipient of public assistance by amending the name of the offense and correcting a citation
  • Updates the names of criminal offenses for patterns of unlawful activity
  • Makes technical and conforming changes

Full bill page: steps, fiscal note and sponsors · Chief sponsor Calvin R. Musselman

Utah Senate, January 20, 2026

2nd Reading, Passage on 2nd & 3rd Under suspension of the rules · SB 18
Result as recorded: Passed, Ayes 28 Nays 0 Abs 1
Official record

Yes (28)

21 Republican, 1 Forward, 6 Democratic

Absent or not voting (1)

1 Republican

Utah House, January 30, 2026

Senate 3rd Reading, Final Passage · SB 18
Result as recorded: Passed, Yeas 72 Nays 1 N/V 2
Listed below: the 71 who are on today's roster. Official record

Yes (68)

54 Republican, 14 Democratic

No (1)

1 Republican

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.