---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pretrial Release Amendments"
description: "Pretrial Release Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 19"
citation: "Utah H.B. 19 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Violence", "Courts", "Criminal Code", "Judiciary", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Romero, Angela"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-18"
last_action: "2019-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4e7c4512-9fb9-4cc4-99a7-e6005db52f61"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0019.html"
source_hash: "527e157f10337fd71dfb93899ec26acf0e4366f3ae96f1685c59a654a9d19bd2"
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. 19 (2019) — Pretrial Release 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/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0019.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0019.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Romero, Angela — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-12-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-12-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-01-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-01-07** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-01-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2019-01-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-01-28** to Senate
- **2019-01-28** received from House
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-05** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-07** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-02-07** to House
- **2019-02-07** received from Senate
- **2019-02-07** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-02-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-02-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** 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/4e7c4512-9fb9-4cc4-99a7-e6005db52f61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).