---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 197 Custody and Adoption Amendments"
description: "H.B. 197 Custody and Adoption Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 197"
citation: "Utah H.B. 197 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Child Custody \\\\ Parent-Time", "Foster Care", "Courts", "Judiciary"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkes, Timothy D."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74956631-83b7-4e0b-96e3-6be0d353f5dd"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0197.html"
source_hash: "14422c6c49b2fd7ef76ade5e02a45815933c5cf352286df29cfa6ed9326ae015"
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. 197 (2017) — H.B. 197 Custody and Adoption Amendments

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillint/HB0197S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillamd/HB0197S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0197.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Held — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–1** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **64–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hawkes, Timothy D. — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-25** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-01-25** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-26** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-31** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** House Comm - Held
- **2017-02-10** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-02-10** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2017-02-10** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-13** comm rpt/substituted/amended
- **2017-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-14** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-17** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-24** to Senate
- **2017-02-27** received from House
- **2017-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2017-03-09** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-09** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-03-09** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2017-03-09** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-03-09** to House
- **2017-03-09** received from Senate
- **2017-03-09** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-03-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-25** 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/74956631-83b7-4e0b-96e3-6be0d353f5dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).