---
type: "Bill"
title: "Surviving Spouse Insurance Death Benefit Amendments"
description: "Surviving Spouse Insurance Death Benefit Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 229"
citation: "Utah H.B. 229 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Health", "Peace Officer", "Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry, Lee B."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-25"
last_action: "2018-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4604c414-9efa-431b-a26b-2e03eec3236f"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0229.html"
source_hash: "b1fa388b7b795c901f9c08b53935f80495ed555d8e603e142266988c64c21488"
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. 229 (2018) — Surviving Spouse Insurance Death Benefit 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/HB0229.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillamd/HB0229.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0229.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Perry, Lee B. — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-25** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-25** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-25** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-01-26** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-30** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-01-30** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-01-31** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2018-02-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-02** comm rpt/amended
- **2018-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-13** to Senate
- **2018-02-14** received from House
- **2018-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-20** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-02** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-03-02** to House
- **2018-03-05** received from Senate
- **2018-03-05** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-05** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-03-05** 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/4604c414-9efa-431b-a26b-2e03eec3236f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).