---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education Base Budget"
description: "Higher Education Base Budget"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 1"
citation: "Utah H.B. 1 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budgeting", "Higher Education", "Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-02-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d87717b-9604-44f9-b33e-7e3f6ed923c6"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0001.html"
source_hash: "d6582d9d3824dc5f8d4184ecc327f9f55771127b5d3912a05450667458510e30"
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 H.B. 1 (2019) — Higher Education Base Budget

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0001.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0001.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **75–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Grover, Keith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-25** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-25** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-25** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-01-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-01-26** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-01-28** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-05** to Senate
- **2019-02-06** received from House
- **2019-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-02-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-02-06** to House
- **2019-02-06** received from Senate
- **2019-02-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-02-08** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-02-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-02-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-02-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-02-11** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-02-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-19** 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/4d87717b-9604-44f9-b33e-7e3f6ed923c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).