---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 21 School and Child Care Center Water Testing Requirements"
description: "H.B. 21 School and Child Care Center Water Testing Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 21"
citation: "Utah HB 21 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter Schools", "Child Care", "Drinking Water", "Education", "Environment", "Human Services", "K-12 Education", "Prekindergarten", "School Facilities", "Water", "Water Quality", "Workforce Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Handy, Stephen G."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 45
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f41ce9f9-2fd6-49e7-9e78-79038bd4388b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0021.html"
source_hash: "59755906a7fb76b513f04a79588877e5b0236109791740e7513354a4b9ef3d2f"
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 21 (2022) — H.B. 21 School and Child Care Center Water Testing Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0021S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillamd/HB0021S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0021.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **39–28** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **47–26** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **15–8** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Handy, Stephen G. — primary (person)
- Iwamoto, Jani — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-12-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-12** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** to House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-01-31** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-01-31** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-01-31** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-01** comm rpt/substituted
- **2022-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-07** to Senate
- **2022-02-07** received from House
- **2022-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-14** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-14** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-16** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-17** circled
- **2022-02-17** uncircled
- **2022-02-17** floor amendment # 1
- **2022-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-17** to House with amendments
- **2022-02-18** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-02-18** received from Senate
- **2022-02-18** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2022-02-22** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2022-02-22** to Senate
- **2022-02-22** received from House
- **2022-02-22** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-02-22** to House
- **2022-02-22** received from Senate
- **2022-02-22** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-24** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-02-24** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-10** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-23** 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/f41ce9f9-2fd6-49e7-9e78-79038bd4388b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).