---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 139 Utah State Correctional Facility Operational Amendments"
description: "S.B. 139 Utah State Correctional Facility Operational Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 139"
citation: "Utah SB 139 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Pardons and Parole", "Department of Corrections", "Inmates", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Parole", "Punishment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-27"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3519602b-d661-4bd7-b1ec-b1acc5f322cd"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/SB0139.html"
source_hash: "7a4f7b422dde3bf57faa20d8bba7c44f22a483071bf461eaac318fd42e118deb"
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 SB 139 (2021) — S.B. 139 Utah State Correctional Facility Operational 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/sbillint/SB0139S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/sbillenr/SB0139.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-27** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-27** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-28** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-02-16** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** comm rpt/substituted
- **2021-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** circled
- **2021-02-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-02-19** uncircled
- **2021-02-19** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-02-22** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-22** motion to reconsider
- **2021-02-22** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** substituted from # 1 to # 2
- **2021-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-22** to House
- **2021-02-22** received from Senate
- **2021-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-23** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-26** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2021-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-03-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-03-03** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2021-03-03** to Senate
- **2021-03-03** received from House
- **2021-03-03** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-05** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2021-03-05** 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/3519602b-d661-4bd7-b1ec-b1acc5f322cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).