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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Veterans and Military Affairs Commission Amendments"
+description: "Veterans and Military Affairs Commission Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 16"
+citation: "Utah HB 16 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Department of Veterans and Military Affairs", "Veterans and Military Affairs"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ray, Paul"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-12-15"
+last_action: "2021-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67ad918f-6f8b-4b79-9574-15ec18a31911"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0016.html"
+source_hash: "7b4cbd47b92111eb3f2712a8cb58e317c95f10ce4d703c483fa342c7b8a5208c"
+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 HB 16 (2021) — Veterans and Military Affairs Commission Amendments
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0016.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0016.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 3rd reading — **26–1** (pass) · upper
+- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ray, Paul — primary (person)
+- Weiler, Todd D. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-12-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2020-12-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2020-12-15** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2020-12-15** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
+- **2020-12-15** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2021-01-06** received bill from Legislative Research
+- **2021-01-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
+- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-01-19** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
+- **2021-01-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2021-01-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2021-01-19** to Senate
+- **2021-01-19** received from House
+- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-01-21** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2021-02-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-03** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-03** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
+- **2021-03-03** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
+- **2021-03-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2021-03-03** signed by President/returned to House
+- **2021-03-03** to House
+- **2021-03-03** received from Senate
+- **2021-03-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
+- **2021-03-05** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2021-03-05** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2021-03-12** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
+- **2021-03-12** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
+- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-16** 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/67ad918f-6f8b-4b79-9574-15ec18a31911`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+