---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 461 Child Care Grant Amendments"
description: "H.B. 461 Child Care Grant Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 461"
citation: "Utah HB 461 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child Care", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Department of Workforce Services", "Health and Human Services", "Office of Licensing and Background Checks", "Prekindergarten", "Workforce Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthews, Ashlee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3e71cde-5145-4f9c-9a9b-4fe708f69927"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0461.html"
source_hash: "ebb95f334b9780de71418b894dc806ebcc17ea387450b371abd79099d4522cf0"
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 461 (2024) — H.B. 461 Child Care Grant 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/HB0461S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0461.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **57–15** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–1** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matthews, Ashlee — primary (person)
- Escamilla, Luz — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-02** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-02** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-07** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-20** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-20** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-20** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-21** comm rpt/amended `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** circled
- **2024-02-23** uncircled
- **2024-02-23** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-23** to Senate
- **2024-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-26** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** 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/f3e71cde-5145-4f9c-9a9b-4fe708f69927`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).