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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review Amendments"
+description: "H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review Amendments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 198"
+citation: "Utah HB 198 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Adoption", "Child Custody/Parent Time", "Child Welfare", "Courts", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Division of Child and Family Services", "Family", "Foster Care", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations", "Juveniles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Birkeland, Kera"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-01-08"
+last_action: "2024-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7bf89ef-711b-454d-ab28-158de4232a9a"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0198.html"
+source_hash: "b496f83d3d60b2f0fe4c69e9d68465ddf7d2569235c27dab9970b15360941471"
+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 198 (2024) — H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0198S02.pdf)
+2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0198S02.pdf)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0198.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- concurs with Senate amendment — **60–13** (pass) · lower
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–3** (pass) · lower
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **17–12** (pass) · upper
+- passed 3rd reading — **50–20** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
+- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-08** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2024-01-08** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
+- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
+- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-01-19** to House Health and Human Services Committee
+- **2024-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-29** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-01-29** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2024-02-06** to Senate
+- **2024-02-06** received from House `receipt`
+- **2024-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-02-09** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
+- **2024-02-13** Senate Comm - Not Considered
+- **2024-02-15** Senate Comm - Not Considered
+- **2024-02-20** Senate Comm - Not Considered
+- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Not Considered
+- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Not Considered
+- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Returned to Rules
+- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules
+- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2024-03-01** circled
+- **2024-03-01** to Printing with fiscal note
+- **2024-03-01** uncircled
+- **2024-03-01** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
+- **2024-03-01** floor amendment # 2
+- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2024-03-01** to House with amendments
+- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-03-01** placed on Concurrence Calendar
+- **2024-03-01** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-03-01** to Senate
+- **2024-03-02** received from House `receipt`
+- **2024-03-02** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
+- **2024-03-02** to House
+- **2024-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-03-02** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
+- **2024-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2024-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
+- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-14** 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/e7bf89ef-711b-454d-ab28-158de4232a9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+