---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 120 Student and School Safety Assessment"
description: "H.B. 120 Student and School Safety Assessment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 120"
citation: "Utah H.B. 120 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School Safety", "Public Education", "Mental Health", "Peace Officer", "Department of Public Safety", "State Board of Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 47
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b59e70d7-6ae6-427e-bf9f-dd9fe7c70e68"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0120.html"
source_hash: "4690d7c04d3966cb85be817a874c09859f681969af4edae5afd66bcc64130453"
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. 120 (2019) — H.B. 120 Student and School Safety Assessment

## 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/HB0120S06.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0120.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed — **3–3** (fail) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 3 to # 4 — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **45–27** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **45–22** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 4 to # 5 — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Millner, Ann — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-01-28** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** to House Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2019-02-07** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-11** comm rpt/substituted
- **2019-02-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-19** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** circled
- **2019-02-21** uncircled
- **2019-02-21** substituted from # 1 to # 3
- **2019-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-21** to Senate
- **2019-02-21** received from House
- **2019-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-28** to Senate Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 3 to # 4
- **2019-03-05** Senate Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed
- **2019-03-07** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 4 to # 5
- **2019-03-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-07** comm rpt/substituted
- **2019-03-07** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-03-13** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** substituted from # 5 to # 6
- **2019-03-13** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-13** to House with amendments
- **2019-03-13** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-03-13** received from Senate
- **2019-03-13** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-03-13** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2019-03-13** to Senate
- **2019-03-13** received from House
- **2019-03-13** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-13** to House
- **2019-03-13** received from Senate
- **2019-03-13** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-28** 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/b59e70d7-6ae6-427e-bf9f-dd9fe7c70e68`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).