---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
description: "H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 8"
citation: "Utah H.B. 8 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budgeting", "Higher Education", "Appropriations", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moss, Jefferson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29d55269-ee66-4dad-a67a-8e38dbd07233"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0008.html"
source_hash: "b1d0596d424d25c55fbf07770bfcc4d7341cc2f292e073d6677031cbd4c0c6f0"
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. 8 (2019) — H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations

## 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/HB0008S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0008.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **74–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Moss, Jefferson — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-25** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-28** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-03-11** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2019-03-11** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-11** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-11** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2019-03-11** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-11** to Senate
- **2019-03-11** received from House
- **2019-03-12** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-14** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** circled
- **2019-03-14** circled
- **2019-03-14** uncircled
- **2019-03-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-21** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-21** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-21** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-27** 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/29d55269-ee66-4dad-a67a-8e38dbd07233`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).