---
type: "Bill"
title: "Personalized Competency-based Learning"
description: "Personalized Competency-based Learning"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 181"
citation: "Utah HB 181 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Education Grant Programs", "K-12 Education", "School Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson, Dan N."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-18"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e75ad332-24d7-42af-bed4-73ac8e0c3fa1"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0181.html"
source_hash: "8c0187b00ed0c013f145e33215bb2cf881065fc20850b2e25f3b4694879735a7"
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 HB 181 (2021) — Personalized Competency-based Learning

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0181.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0181.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **22–3** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Johnson, Dan N. — primary (person)
- Wilson, Chris H. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-19** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-01-20** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-20** to House Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-01-25** held
- **2021-01-26** to Senate
- **2021-01-27** received from House
- **2021-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** to Senate Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-29** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-29** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-04** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-04** to House
- **2021-02-04** received from Senate
- **2021-02-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-16** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-02-16** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** 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/e75ad332-24d7-42af-bed4-73ac8e0c3fa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).