---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 167 State Child Care Amendments"
description: "H.B. 167 State Child Care Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Utah HB 167 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child Care", "Child Care Licensing", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Department of Workforce Services", "Facilities", "Construction", "and Management"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthews, Ashlee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-06"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f31bd90-5540-4152-8c96-c35a424e2d08"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0167.html"
source_hash: "9426ae2e42a9d674788f43b1ab9c52c7a4752d79ea0f7583fd3fc86cf598d557"
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 167 (2023) — H.B. 167 State Child Care 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0167S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0167.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthews, Ashlee — primary (person)
- Escamilla, Luz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-06** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-06** 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`
- **2023-01-19** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-25** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-01-25** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-31** to Senate
- **2023-01-31** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-03** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-09** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-10** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-10** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-10** to House
- **2023-02-13** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-15** 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/1f31bd90-5540-4152-8c96-c35a424e2d08`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).