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+type: "Bill"
+title: "High Needs Children Adoption Amendments"
+description: "High Needs Children Adoption Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "H.B. 199"
+citation: "Utah H.B. 199 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Adoption", "Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nelson, Merrill F."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2017-01-25"
+last_action: "2017-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43187f6-3a3d-43f3-a5ad-b40b567c2e2e"
+source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0199.html"
+source_hash: "7b74635d3c191bb77d62c5c1c9e452f93269f6852ec58c5108d6693d4d7ec7a9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
+---
+
+# Utah H.B. 199 (2017) — High Needs Children Adoption Amendments
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillint/HB0199.pdf)
+2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillamd/HB0199.pdf)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0199.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- passed 3rd reading — **57–14** (pass) · legislature
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nelson, Merrill F. — primary (person)
+- Weiler, Todd — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-25** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2017-01-25** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2017-01-25** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
+- **2017-01-26** received bill from Legislative Research
+- **2017-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2017-01-30** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2017-02-06** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2017-02-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
+- **2017-02-07** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-17** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-02-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-28** floor amendment # 2
+- **2017-02-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2017-02-28** to Senate
+- **2017-02-28** received from House
+- **2017-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2017-03-01** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-06** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-06** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-03-06** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2017-03-07** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
+- **2017-03-08** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2017-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2017-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2017-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
+- **2017-03-08** to House
+- **2017-03-09** received from Senate
+- **2017-03-09** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
+- **2017-03-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2017-03-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2017-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
+- **2017-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2017-03-17** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2017-03-25** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f43187f6-3a3d-43f3-a5ad-b40b567c2e2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
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