---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth"
description: "Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 279"
citation: "Utah HB 279 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Colleges and Universities", "Concurrent Enrollment", "Department of Human Services", "Education", "Higher Education", "Human Services", "Judicial Operations", "Juvenile Justice", "Juvenile Justice Services", "Juveniles", "K-12 Education", "Standards and Curriculum"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Snow, V. Lowry"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e855eadf-e07c-4481-bd7e-20bf9054b1f2"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0279.html"
source_hash: "536d9569c892c6eababa5fc4e02d4c8caab90b9358879836c5caaaad484cadb3"
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 279 (2021) — Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth

## 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/HB0279.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0279.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Snow, V. Lowry — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-01** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-02-01** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-02-01** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-02-02** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-02-05** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-02-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-02-08** to House Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-19** to Senate
- **2021-02-19** received from House
- **2021-02-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** to Senate Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-25** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-02** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-03-02** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2021-03-02** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-03-02** to House
- **2021-03-03** received from Senate
- **2021-03-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-04** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-03-04** 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`
- **2021-03-22** 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/e855eadf-e07c-4481-bd7e-20bf9054b1f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).