---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 167 Education Innovation Program Amendments"
description: "H.B. 167 Education Innovation Program Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 167"
citation: "Utah HB 167 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Welton, Douglas R."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1229bdd-627a-44aa-b15b-3f6e7f57c586"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0167.html"
source_hash: "8feaf2660c3a803867c6f5c3c7deb67010a82529c752d9964c3e5ffdbd7b51ec"
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 (2024) — H.B. 167 Education Innovation Program 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0167S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0167.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Welton, Douglas R. — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-04** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-09** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-16** to House Education Committee
- **2024-01-17** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-17** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-18** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-19** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-19** held
- **2024-01-22** to Senate
- **2024-01-22** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** to Senate Education Committee
- **2024-01-30** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-31** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-09** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-09** to House
- **2024-02-12** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-12** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-12** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-12** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/b1229bdd-627a-44aa-b15b-3f6e7f57c586`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).