---
type: "Bill"
title: "Office of Quality and Design"
description: "Office of Quality and Design"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 261"
citation: "Utah H.B. 261 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services", "Department of Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hawkins, Jon"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4fe59ff-f0b4-4455-9412-b645554a10d9"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0261.html"
source_hash: "766377f82c7e9ccccb77b3cb06a10e2dc00f34e63d34484916b1b04704e3c0ac"
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. 261 (2019) — Office of Quality and Design

## 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/HB0261.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0261.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hawkins, Jon — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-04** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-04** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-02-05** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-07** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-07** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-08** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** circled
- **2019-02-22** uncircled
- **2019-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-22** held
- **2019-02-25** to Senate
- **2019-02-25** received from House
- **2019-02-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-27** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-07** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-08** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-08** to House
- **2019-03-08** received from Senate
- **2019-03-08** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-11** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** 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/d4fe59ff-f0b4-4455-9412-b645554a10d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).