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+type: "Bill"
+title: "H.B. 246 Office of Families"
+description: "H.B. 246 Office of Families"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 246"
+citation: "Utah HB 246 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Department of Health and Human Services", "Family", "Health and Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, Dan N."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-10"
+last_action: "2024-03-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d426029c-4772-46ff-b32f-17b11cd94c12"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0246.html"
+source_hash: "e3a66de0ab4243de3ada7187423cd981a49e7e9786000fb193e78df12570f575"
+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 246 (2024) — H.B. 246 Office of Families
+
+## 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/HB0246S01.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0246.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
+- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **21–2** (pass) · upper
+- passed 3rd reading — **64–0** (pass) · lower
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Johnson, Dan N. — primary (person)
+- Wilson, Chris H. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-10** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2024-01-10** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2024-01-16** 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`
+- **2024-01-23** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2024-01-24** to Printing with fiscal note
+- **2024-02-08** to House Health and Human Services Committee
+- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
+- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted
+- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2024-02-21** to Senate
+- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
+- **2024-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-02-22** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
+- **2024-02-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-29** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** to House
+- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2024-02-29** 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`
+- **2024-03-19** 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/d426029c-4772-46ff-b32f-17b11cd94c12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+