---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 130 Adoption Tax Credit"
description: "H.B. 130 Adoption Tax Credit"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 130"
citation: "Utah HB 130 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Department of Workforce Services", "Income Tax", "Individual Income Tax", "Tax Credits"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shipp, Rex P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-12-28"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/970f5b2a-84eb-4839-936e-2d3e7e71dab0"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0130.html"
source_hash: "9c0f0a9ceedf31cde7b6f2c72f69dd7242373964b1ace26faeccffdc00090656"
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 130 (2023) — H.B. 130 Adoption Tax Credit

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0130S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0130.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 3 — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shipp, Rex P. — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-28** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** to House Revenue and Taxation Committee
- **2023-02-13** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-14** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 3
- **2023-02-14** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-14** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2023-02-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-14** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-16** to Senate
- **2023-02-17** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
- **2023-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-24** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-28** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** circled
- **2023-03-01** uncircled
- **2023-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-03-01** to House
- **2023-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** 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/970f5b2a-84eb-4839-936e-2d3e7e71dab0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).