---
type: "Bill"
title: "County Jails Amendments"
description: "County Jails Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "Utah SB 249 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice", "Counties", "Inmates", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-03-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c5defb4-3566-4fce-82f4-2db808d1d5a5"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/SB0249.html"
source_hash: "23c65e175f0f70ff54e078c5ad885bdcfa6f2ceac93fbee838c5f3012a0c870e"
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 249 (2021) — County Jails 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/SB0249.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/sbillenr/SB0249.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Owens, Derrin R. — primary (person)
- Hall, Craig — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-03-01** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-03-01** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-03-01** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-03-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-01** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-03-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-03-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-03-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** 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** to House
- **2021-03-03** received from Senate
- **2021-03-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-03** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-03-03** 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
- **2021-03-04** received from House
- **2021-03-04** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-05** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2021-03-05** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-12** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-12** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-17** 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/9c5defb4-3566-4fce-82f4-2db808d1d5a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).