---
type: "Bill"
title: "Navajo Trust Fund Amendments"
description: "Navajo Trust Fund Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Utah HB 61 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Officers", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Indian Affairs", "State Treasurer", "Tribal Nations Within Utah"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-12-22T19:58:15+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-23T14:57:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7e331507-463a-4f86-ae51-a9096fad421a"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/HB0061.html"
source_hash: "e15b19d4dac453485243c3259a3f94080e21bf26f902014c3c6dcff4a18b519f"
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 61 (2026) — Navajo Trust Fund 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/2026/bills/introduced/HB0061.xml)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2026/bills/enrolled/HB0061.xml)

## Votes

- House/ passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate/ passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate/ passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Watkins, Christine F. — primary (person)
- Winterton, Ronald M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-22T19:58:15+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-12-22T19:58:15+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-12-22T19:58:17+00:00** LFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0061
- **2025-12-22T19:58:17+00:00** LFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0061
- **2026-01-05T21:04:13+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0061
- **2026-01-06T18:30:57+00:00** LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0061
- **2026-01-14T20:41:51+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2026-01-14T21:21:49+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2026-01-20T17:43:19+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-01-20T18:20:03+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2026-01-20T18:21:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2026-01-22T18:42:22+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2026-01-22T18:46:54+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-01-22T18:46:56+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2026-01-22T19:05:17+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2026-01-23T18:13:08+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2026-01-27T18:08:45+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-30T21:30:59+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-02T18:18:01+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable [Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee] `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-02-02T18:18:02+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2026-02-05T18:52:01+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2026-02-05T18:52:21+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2026-02-05T21:42:32+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2026-02-05T21:45:26+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2026-02-06T21:23:25+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2026-02-06T21:25:12+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2026-02-06T21:25:13+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2026-02-06T21:25:14+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2026-02-09T17:27:06+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2026-02-09T17:27:07+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2026-02-10T15:53:43+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2026-02-10T15:53:44+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2026-02-19T21:52:57+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2026-02-19T21:52:59+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2026-03-17T16:57:47+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2026-03-17T16:57:49+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-23T14:57:00+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/7e331507-463a-4f86-ae51-a9096fad421a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).