---
type: "Bill"
title: "Family Planning Services Amendments"
description: "Family Planning Services Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 12"
citation: "Utah H.B. 12 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family", "Health", "Department of Health", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-12-12"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f481eaa-3e35-4dfe-9aed-8f0aa01d5095"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0012.html"
source_hash: "438a0841a083c7a3902f69775aec372bedd5bb8f82594a86db2ac832cc489474"
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. 12 (2018) — Family Planning Services 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/~2018/bills/hbillint/HB0012.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0012.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0012.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **22–4** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **53–21** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **24–3** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Zehnder, Brian — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-12** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-12-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-12-14** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-12-14** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2017-12-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-11** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2018-01-24** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-25** comm rpt/amended
- **2018-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-01-30** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-01-30** to Senate
- **2018-01-31** received from House
- **2018-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-05** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-05** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2018-03-06** lifted from table
- **2018-03-06** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-06** circled
- **2018-03-06** uncircled
- **2018-03-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-06** to House
- **2018-03-06** received from Senate
- **2018-03-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** 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/8f481eaa-3e35-4dfe-9aed-8f0aa01d5095`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).