---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amendments to Mandatory Courses for Family Law Actions"
description: "Amendments to Mandatory Courses for Family Law Actions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 337"
citation: "Utah HB 337 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Family", "Judicial Operations", "Marriage/Divorce", "Parentage"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elison, Joseph"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0289ce0-8b77-4876-b5fe-a86f6ea0ee61"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0337.html"
source_hash: "fad91c13c251c7ad2a8a2311973945777fd97fe3adfce80e62b391f80eb6f1ef"
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 337 (2024) — Amendments to Mandatory Courses for Family Law Actions

## 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/HB0337.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0337.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **2–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Elison, Joseph — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-24** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-24** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** to House Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-13** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-22** to Senate
- **2024-02-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-23** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2024-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-28** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** to House
- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** 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/e0289ce0-8b77-4876-b5fe-a86f6ea0ee61`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).