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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "H.B. 137 Child Placement Background Check Limits"
+description: "H.B. 137 Child Placement Background Check Limits"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "H.B. 137"
+citation: "Utah H.B. 137 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Children", "Foster Care", "Division of Child and Family Services", "Human Services", "Department of Human Services", "Human Services Licensure"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-14"
+last_action: "2020-03-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bf1c3ed4-254c-4bdf-abc3-791c0cce0bdd"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0137.html"
+source_hash: "c406f38516582fdf7d8c62d85c46b34a641e292a7348a94a1ab454db51d21903"
+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. 137 (2020) — H.B. 137 Child Placement Background Check Limits
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0137S01.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0137.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
+- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Watkins, Christine F — primary (person)
+- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2020-01-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2020-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
+- **2020-01-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
+- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2020-01-29** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-30** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
+- **2020-01-30** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-01-31** comm rpt/substituted
+- **2020-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2020-02-03** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2020-02-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2020-02-03** to Senate
+- **2020-02-04** received from House
+- **2020-02-04** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2020-02-06** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-07** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2020-02-07** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2020-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-12** circled
+- **2020-02-13** uncircled
+- **2020-02-13** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2020-02-14** signed by President/returned to House
+- **2020-02-14** to House
+- **2020-02-14** received from Senate
+- **2020-02-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
+- **2020-02-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2020-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
+- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2020-03-23** received enrolled bill from Printing
+- **2020-03-23** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-28** 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/bf1c3ed4-254c-4bdf-abc3-791c0cce0bdd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
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