---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 219 Inmate Phone Provider Amendments"
description: "H.B. 219 Inmate Phone Provider Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 219"
citation: "Utah HB 219 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Corrections", "Inmates", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Telecommunications"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Acton, Cheryl K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82bd6fcb-a867-4a31-a4cd-b318d3503a1d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0219.html"
source_hash: "dddfd2705b5e4ee9b86c64ddca8dcd002492de948b52e56875c3f64470ae108c"
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 219 (2021) — H.B. 219 Inmate Phone Provider Amendments

## 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/HB0219S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0219.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **68–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Acton, Cheryl K. — primary (person)
- Kitchen, Derek L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-21** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-02-01** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-16** circled
- **2021-02-19** uncircled
- **2021-02-19** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-02-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-19** to Senate
- **2021-02-22** received from House
- **2021-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-02-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-03** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2021-03-04** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-04** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-04** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2021-03-04** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-03-04** to House
- **2021-03-04** received from Senate
- **2021-03-04** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-09** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-03-09** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-15** 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/82bd6fcb-a867-4a31-a4cd-b318d3503a1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).