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Anti-SLAPP · UPEPA
How a UPEPA motion worksService through appeal, with the deadlines that decide cases before the merits. The briefing sequenceWho files what, when, and what has to be in it. Statutes, bills, and votesOfficial text and legislative history for Utah's anti-SLAPP law and the rules that govern it.
Vexatious requester
How a vexatious requester petition worksFiling through judicial review, and the deadlines that run against you. Statutes, bills, and votesOfficial text and legislative history for the vexatious requester provision and the office that decides these cases.

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Statutes, bills, and votes

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

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

Everything here links to the Legislature’s own site or the courts’, never to a summary. Bill pages carry sponsor, status, effective date, and the recorded floor and committee votes.

The statute
Enacted 2023

Relief from a vexatious requester

Utah Code § 63G-2-209

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 (PDF) S.B. 231 bill page House vote record
The bill that didn't make it

A competing vehicle, killed the same session

S.B. 262 (2023 General Session)

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.

S.B. 262 bill page
Judicial review

Thirty days, suspended during mediation

Utah Code § 63G-2-404

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 (PDF)
Who decides these cases
2025

The State Records Committee was abolished

S.B. 277 (2025 General Session) · Government Records Management Amendments

Repealed the seven-member State Records Committee, which by statute included a media representative, and created the Government Records Office in its place.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
Background
2022

The fee bill where the phrase first surfaced

H.B. 96 (2022 General Session)

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