---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juror Eligibility Amendments"
description: "Juror Eligibility Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 49"
citation: "Utah HB 49 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Crimes", "Judicial Operations", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballard, Melissa G."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-20T00:49:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-25T23:42:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88365cb6-2da3-41e6-a7d1-44efc205bc99"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0049.html"
source_hash: "f73d3916ad811bbf2d1c41ebcfced006a8d44054fbff11babcc7f82a8a8ce444"
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 49 (2025) — Juror Eligibility 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/HB0049.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0049 To HB0049S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0049S01 To HB0049S02.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB049H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB049S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB049S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0049S01.xml)
8. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0049S02.xml)
9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0049.xml)

## Sponsors

- Ballard, Melissa G. — primary (person)
- Owens, Derrin R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-20T00:49:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-12-20T00:49:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T16:59:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:06:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:08:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:31:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-01-23T18:44:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-01-23T18:44:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-01-24T18:27:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-01-24T18:28:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-01-24T18:50:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-04T18:35:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-04T18:36:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-04T18:38:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-04T18:38:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-04T22:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-05T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T22:28:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:27:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:27:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-19T21:58:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-19T22:06:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T18:30:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:30:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:30:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-20T20:03:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-20T20:03:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-24T15:34:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-24T15:34:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-06T22:24:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-06T22:24:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T16:43:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T16:43:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-25T23:42:00+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/88365cb6-2da3-41e6-a7d1-44efc205bc99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).