---
type: "Bill"
title: "High Needs Children Adoption Amendments"
description: "High Needs Children Adoption Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 199"
citation: "Utah H.B. 199 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson, Merrill F."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43187f6-3a3d-43f3-a5ad-b40b567c2e2e"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0199.html"
source_hash: "7b74635d3c191bb77d62c5c1c9e452f93269f6852ec58c5108d6693d4d7ec7a9"
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. 199 (2017) — High Needs Children 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/HB0199.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillamd/HB0199.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0199.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **57–14** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nelson, Merrill F. — 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
- **2017-01-25** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-01-26** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-06** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-02-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-07** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-17** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-28** floor amendment # 2
- **2017-02-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-28** to Senate
- **2017-02-28** received from House
- **2017-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-03-01** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-06** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-07** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2017-03-08** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-03-08** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2017-03-08** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2017-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-03-08** to House
- **2017-03-09** received from Senate
- **2017-03-09** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-03-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-16** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-17** 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/f43187f6-3a3d-43f3-a5ad-b40b567c2e2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).