---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education Financial Aid Amendments"
description: "Higher Education Financial Aid Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Utah HB 19 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Colleges and Universities", "Education", "Higher Education", "Scholarships and Financial Aid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Val L."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-12-19"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2826486a-b1ff-4739-9c3e-ba2c64b41e50"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0019.html"
source_hash: "e39460c07a53c557d247f0c306f790dd7edb55aad773ad5318861677c76fd455"
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 19 (2024) — Higher Education Financial Aid 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/HB0019.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0019.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Val L. — primary (person)
- Johnson, John D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-12-19** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-12-26** fiscal note publicly available
- **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** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-16** to Senate
- **2024-01-16** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** to Senate Education Committee
- **2024-01-19** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** circled
- **2024-01-31** uncircled
- **2024-01-31** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-01** to House
- **2024-02-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-04** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-04** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** 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/2826486a-b1ff-4739-9c3e-ba2c64b41e50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).