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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Ballot Amendments"
+description: "Ballot Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 196"
+citation: "Utah HB 196 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Election Law", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Voting and Voter Registration"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nelson, Merrill F."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-01-19"
+last_action: "2021-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06a9c764-0b73-45e5-b966-1f588eec324b"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0196.html"
+source_hash: "54672dc62cba6b95382c2626b02c17f38a8b80e25e3359f1a8ecdf05c69fc25b"
+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 196 (2021) — Ballot 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/HB0196.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0196.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
+- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 3rd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nelson, Merrill F. — primary (person)
+- Thatcher, Daniel W. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2021-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2021-01-19** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
+- **2021-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research
+- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-01-19** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2021-01-20** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
+- **2021-01-20** to House Government Operations Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-01-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2021-02-02** to Senate
+- **2021-02-02** received from House
+- **2021-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2021-02-03** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-16** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2021-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-18** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2021-02-19** signed by President/returned to House
+- **2021-02-19** to House
+- **2021-02-19** received from Senate
+- **2021-02-19** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
+- **2021-02-23** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2021-02-23** 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/06a9c764-0b73-45e5-b966-1f588eec324b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+