---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 347 Educational Rights Amendments"
description: "H.B. 347 Educational Rights Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 347"
citation: "Utah HB 347 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "School Personnel", "Special Education", "Student Health and Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-19"
last_action: "2024-03-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec5d28ae-2a5b-40c7-b0e2-cf0c069efaac"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0347.html"
source_hash: "ba59b3c574fac98cc48e1c7b1aa90534b7b3b758d1d39b30217ba9c68d19b008"
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 347 (2024) — H.B. 347 Educational Rights 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/HB0347S03.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0347S03.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0347.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–2** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Fillmore, Lincoln — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-22** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-29** to House Education Committee
- **2024-02-05** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-05** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** circled
- **2024-02-20** uncircled
- **2024-02-20** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-02-20** floor amendment failed `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2024-02-20** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-02-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-20** to Senate
- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate Education Committee
- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-29** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-12** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-12** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/ec5d28ae-2a5b-40c7-b0e2-cf0c069efaac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).