---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget"
description: "H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "H.B. 7"
citation: "Utah H.B. 7 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budgeting", "Human Services", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray, Paul"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9017d002-965d-4c5a-b41f-c482ac158e67"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/HB0007.html"
source_hash: "725b87afd6acee4018d891379b0e95e367dfd84205ed446c8dc4ffb558f5f377"
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. 7 (2018) — H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget

## 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/HB0007S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/hbillenr/HB0007.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **29–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Ray, Paul — primary (person)
- Christensen, Allen M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-22** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-04** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-04** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-02-05** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-05** 2nd suspended
- **2018-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-05** to Senate
- **2018-02-06** received from House
- **2018-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-06** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-06** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-02-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2018-02-06** to House
- **2018-02-06** received from Senate
- **2018-02-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2018-02-06** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2018-02-13** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-02-13** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-02-14** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-02-14** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-21** 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/9017d002-965d-4c5a-b41f-c482ac158e67`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).