---
type: "Bill"
title: "Inmate Restrictions Standards Amendments"
description: "Inmate Restrictions Standards Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 318"
citation: "Utah H.B. 318 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Department of Corrections", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Inmates"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pitcher, Stephanie"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67a14f0b-5efa-439c-9e9d-bccc65638bdb"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0318.html"
source_hash: "ae7b9c8bab7afbfc38bd5c0e77bd4d0a1e0bc24af1236d911a3b8fe33bd0acb1"
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. 318 (2019) — Inmate Restrictions Standards Amendments

## 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/HB0318.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillamd/HB0318.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0318.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **64–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pitcher, Stephanie — primary (person)
- Anderegg, Jacob L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-12** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-12** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-02-13** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-16** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-20** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2019-02-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-26** comm rpt/amended
- **2019-02-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-01** to Senate
- **2019-03-01** received from House
- **2019-03-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2019-03-14** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-14** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-14** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** 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`
- **2019-03-27** 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/67a14f0b-5efa-439c-9e9d-bccc65638bdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).