---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social Services Base Budget"
description: "Social Services Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 7"
citation: "Utah H.B. 7 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Budgeting", "Health", "Human Services", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ray, Paul"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-02-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c8838c64-ad77-4d10-bd88-6763e50945a9"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0007.html"
source_hash: "85949b67d13cc62bf8dba718b40e1072f5813311590e248713e54c6dad49f3f9"
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 (2020) — Social Services Base Budget

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0007.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0007.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-23** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-23** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2020-01-25** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-01-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-01-27** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-03** circled
- **2020-02-04** uncircled
- **2020-02-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-04** to Senate
- **2020-02-05** received from House
- **2020-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2020-02-05** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-02-05** to House
- **2020-02-05** received from Senate
- **2020-02-05** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-02-07** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-02-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-02-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-02-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-02-13** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-02-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-24** 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/c8838c64-ad77-4d10-bd88-6763e50945a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).