---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 126 Offender Housing Amendments"
description: "H.B. 126 Offender Housing Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 126"
citation: "Utah H.B. 126 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Corrections", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Inmates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Jeremy A."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 63
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-12-21"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bab100c8-0b3b-477d-89c3-346109158391"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0126.html"
source_hash: "f4ae7b999e9addb333593fb422eca0d94dd966a478759fbc647901b53f9540d7"
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. 126 (2018) — H.B. 126 Offender Housing 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/HB0126S04.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0126S04.pdf)
3. **Conference Committee Report 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/comreport/HB126C10.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0126.pdf)

## Votes

- House Conference Committee - Final Passage — **68–1** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage — **24–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **64–5** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **23–2** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 3 — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **23–1** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Jeremy A. — primary (person)
- Buxton, David G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-12-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-12-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-31** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-08** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-08** to Senate
- **2018-02-09** received from House
- **2018-02-09** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-13** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2018-02-16** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 3
- **2018-02-16** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-16** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2018-03-05** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-03-06** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-03-07** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-07** substituted from # 3 to # 4
- **2018-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-07** to House with amendments
- **2018-03-07** received from Senate
- **2018-03-07** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2018-03-07** refuse to concur with Senate amendment
- **2018-03-07** to Senate
- **2018-03-08** refused to recede from Senate amendments
- **2018-03-08** Senate Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information
- **2018-03-08** to House
- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
- **2018-03-08** House Conference Committee Appointed Meeting Information
- **2018-03-08** to Senate
- **2018-03-08** Bill amended by Conference Committee # 2
- **2018-03-08** Conference Committee Report
- **2018-03-08** received from House
- **2018-03-08** Senate Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2018-03-08** Senate Conference Committee - Final Passage
- **2018-03-08** to House
- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
- **2018-03-08** House Motion to Adopt Joint Conference Comm Rpt
- **2018-03-08** House Conference Committee - Final Passage
- **2018-03-08** to Senate
- **2018-03-08** received from House
- **2018-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-08** to House
- **2018-03-08** received from Senate
- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-08** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-03-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-16** 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/bab100c8-0b3b-477d-89c3-346109158391`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).