Statutes, bills, and votes

Updated August 7, 2026 Utah Code § 63G-2-209

Statutes, bills, and votes

Official text and legislative history for the vexatious requester provision and the office that decides these cases.

The statute

Utah Code § 63G-2-209

Relief from a vexatious requester

Enacted by S.B. 231 (2023).

Lets a government entity petition to be relieved of any duty to answer a person's records requests for up to a year. Petition requirements at (2), screening at (3), your written statement at (4), the hearing at (7), the order at (8), the factors at (9), judicial review and fees at (10).

Enacted by: S.B. 231 (2023 General Session)
Sponsor: Sen. Curtis S. Bramble
House floor sponsor: Rep. Anthony E. Loubet
Signed: March 23, 2023
Effective: May 3, 2023
Session law: Chapter 516

House final passage, March 3, 2023 — 66 yeas · 4 nays · 5 absent

§ 209 text S.B. 231 bill page House vote record

S.B. 262 (2023)

Government Records Access Amendments

Not enacted.

Sponsored by Sen. Michael K. McKell, also drafted to enact § 63G-2-209. Its enacting clause was stricken on March 3, 2023, three days before Bramble's bill went for enrolling.

Why it is here. The bill shows what the Legislature considered and set aside in the same session it enacted § 63G-2-209, which bears on how the enacted version is read. Anyone who finds a reference to it should be able to see that it never became law.

S.B. 262 bill page

Utah Code § 63G-2-404

Judicial review

How a records decision reaches district court.

Either side may petition a district court within 30 days of an order. The clock is suspended from the day mediation is requested until the Government Records Ombudsman certifies it concluded.

§ 404 text

Who decides these cases

Utah Code § 63G-2-501

State Records Committee

Repealed by S.B. 277 (2025).

Repealed the seven-member State Records Committee, which by statute included a media representative, and created the Government Records Office in its place. The director is appointed by the governor and now decides GRAMA appeals and vexatious requester petitions.

Sponsor: Sen. Michael K. McKell
House floor sponsor: Rep. Jefferson Moss
Signed: March 27, 2025

S.B. 277 bill page Published decisions

Introduction of the phrase

H.B. 96 (2022)

Government Records Access and Management Act Amendments

Where the phrase “vexatious requester” first surfaced.

Not the vexatious requester statute. It let agencies charge for the first fifteen minutes of work when a requester had filed another request within ten days. The phrase entered Utah's legislative record during its committee hearing, proposed by the state's own media coalition as a narrower alternative to the fee.

Sponsor: Rep. Dan N. Johnson
Signed: March 22, 2022
Effective: May 4, 2022
Session law: Chapter 128

H.B. 96 bill page

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