---
type: "Bill"
title: "Tax Increment Funding for Student Housing"
description: "Tax Increment Funding for Student Housing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 185"
citation: "Utah H.B. 185 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community Development and Renewal Agencies", "Higher Education", "Housing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-25"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8067ab6c-e63d-44b0-aaec-9a00c727b30b"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0185.html"
source_hash: "d4c4e501c1ab151296f38b28a94556619abe802f3264eb38918940bc89855aa5"
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. 185 (2019) — Tax Increment Funding for Student Housing

## 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/HB0185.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillamd/HB0185.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0185.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **53–11** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–1** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Owens, Derrin R. — primary (person)
- Okerlund, Ralph — 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
- **2019-01-28** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-01-29** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-29** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-01-31** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-01** to House Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2019-02-04** House Comm - Held
- **2019-02-06** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2019-02-06** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-07** comm rpt/amended
- **2019-02-07** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-15** to Senate
- **2019-02-15** received from House
- **2019-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** to Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-28** circled
- **2019-02-28** uncircled
- **2019-02-28** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** circled
- **2019-03-01** uncircled
- **2019-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-01** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-01** to House
- **2019-03-01** received from Senate
- **2019-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-04** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-04** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-14** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-14** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-20** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** 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/8067ab6c-e63d-44b0-aaec-9a00c727b30b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).