---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 215 Funding for Teacher Salaries and Optional Education Opportunities"
description: "H.B. 215 Funding for Teacher Salaries and Optional Education Opportunities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 215"
citation: "Utah HB 215 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter Schools", "Education", "Education Grant Programs", "K-12 Education", "School Personnel", "State School Funding Distribution"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pierucci, Candice B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-16"
last_action: "2023-01-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e5db1f64-3552-4d4d-a2ce-ac1bf46f3fb8"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0215.html"
source_hash: "acb02b27969ea5d86572ee852e0dd29d7dd3504069dd9faa6df8f408fed81d2f"
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 215 (2023) — H.B. 215 Funding for Teacher Salaries and Optional Education Opportunities

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0215S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0215.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **14–2** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **20–8** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **20–8** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **54–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pierucci, Candice B. — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-17** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-18** to House Education Committee
- **2023-01-19** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-01-19** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-20** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-01-20** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-20** substituted from # 1 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2023-01-20** substitute adoption failed from # 3 to # 6 `failure`
- **2023-01-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-20** to Senate
- **2023-01-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** to Senate Education Committee
- **2023-01-23** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-01-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-01-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-24** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-01-25** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-25** floor amendment failed # 2 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-25** substitute adoption failed from # 3 to # 7 `failure`
- **2023-01-25** floor amendment failed # 6 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-25** floor amendment failed # 4 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-25** floor amendment failed # 5 `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2023-01-25** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-01-26** circled
- **2023-01-26** uncircled
- **2023-01-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-01-26** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-01-26** to House
- **2023-01-26** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-01-26** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-01-26** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-01-27** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-01-27** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-01-27** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-01-28** 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/e5db1f64-3552-4d4d-a2ce-ac1bf46f3fb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).