---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget"
description: "H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Utah HB 7 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Public Budgeting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-02-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/99bde955-49e0-4b9f-953c-becbb49ce1aa"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0007.html"
source_hash: "61c9e4fc7443eae0ec31c5d6fcdc8ee75b27002c1b480c838c8ea2df995a6c8f"
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 7 (2022) — H.B. 7 Social Services Base Budget

## 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/HB0007S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0007.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Anderegg, Jacob L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-17** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-18** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-25** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2022-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** circled
- **2022-01-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-01-26** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-01-26** uncircled
- **2022-01-26** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-01-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-01-26** to Senate
- **2022-01-27** received from House
- **2022-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-27** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-01-27** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-01-27** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-01-27** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-01-27** to House
- **2022-01-28** received from Senate
- **2022-01-28** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-01-31** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-01-31** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-01-31** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-01-31** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-02-01** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-02** 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/99bde955-49e0-4b9f-953c-becbb49ce1aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).