---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social Services Base Budget"
description: "Social Services Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 7"
citation: "Utah HB 7 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Health and Human Services", "Public Budgeting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-01-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/619178f9-58ea-4dc4-b6a1-359a9ab53651"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0007.html"
source_hash: "ebbf5f0a78a60fd81df95dbccd063eca044b67f4288429ea27555d3592bcb0f7"
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 7 (2024) — Social Services Base Budget

## 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/HB0007.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0007.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Balderree, Heidi — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-11** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-11** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-11** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-12** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-13** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-16** 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`
- **2024-01-23** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** circled
- **2024-01-24** uncircled
- **2024-01-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-24** to Senate
- **2024-01-24** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-25** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-01-25** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-01-25** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-01-25** to House
- **2024-01-25** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-01-25** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-01-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-01-29** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-01-29** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-01-30** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-01-30** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-01-31** 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/619178f9-58ea-4dc4-b6a1-359a9ab53651`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).