---
type: "Bill"
title: "School District Contracting Amendments"
description: "School District Contracting Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "Utah HB 144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "K-12 Education", "Local Education Agencies (LEAs)", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Defay, Ariel"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 41
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-08T22:54:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:13:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5306a49d-5bd2-43d6-a56d-8fa06ce7aaa8"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0144.html"
source_hash: "3a1f52add5022d64670f1053c2e5c4c5b420a06f96681ebaabd0f8f3aaeaa0b9"
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 144 (2025) — School District Contracting 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0144.xml)
2. **Amended 1/24/2025 10:01:681** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0144_2025-01-24_10-41-17.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 1/24/2025 10:01:681** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0144_2025-01-24_10-41-17.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0144 To HB0144S01.pdf)
5. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0144.Hamd.1.pdf)
6. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB144H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB144H10.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB144S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB144S20.pdf)
10. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0144S01.xml)
11. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0144.xml)

## Sponsors

- Defay, Ariel — primary (person)
- Johnson, John D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08T22:54:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-08T22:54:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T16:59:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:10:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:18:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:33:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T22:16:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-01-23T22:17:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-24T18:15:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-24T18:15:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-01-31T18:36:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-01-31T18:37:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-01-31T18:39:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-01-31T18:39:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-01-31T19:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-03T18:17:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-04T21:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T22:53:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-10T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-13T18:37:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-13T18:39:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T18:15:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-14T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ failed `failure`
- **2025-02-14T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-18T21:24:00+00:00** Senate/ motion to reconsider
- **2025-02-18T21:25:00+00:00** Senate/ placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-18T21:27:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-27T18:46:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-27T18:49:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-27T18:49:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-27T18:49:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-27T20:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T20:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-03T17:02:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-03T17:02:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-05T02:12:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05T02:12:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-05T19:39:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T19:39:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:13:00+00:00** 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/5306a49d-5bd2-43d6-a56d-8fa06ce7aaa8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).