---
type: "Bill"
title: "Early Childhood Amendments"
description: "Early Childhood Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Utah HB 48 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child Care", "Child Development", "Department of Workforce Services", "Economic Development", "Education", "Family", "Health", "Maternal and Child Health", "Rural Development", "State Board of Education", "Workforce Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pulsipher, Susan"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2022-12-20"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/306c0e57-f9f5-4d34-b0ad-a77945254c93"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0048.html"
source_hash: "af6e025d6eb11a73bfd1722afcffac0c22021a9d0add097f32a23fe3fa6690dc"
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 48 (2023) — Early Childhood 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/HB0048.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0048.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pulsipher, Susan — primary (person)
- Millner, Ann — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-12-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-12-20** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-12-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-04** 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`
- **2023-01-17** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-01-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-17** to Senate
- **2023-01-18** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- **2023-01-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-25** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-01-26** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2023-01-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-31** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-01-31** to House
- **2023-01-31** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-01-31** 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/306c0e57-f9f5-4d34-b0ad-a77945254c93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).