---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review Amendments"
description: "H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Utah HB 198 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Child Custody/Parent Time", "Child Welfare", "Courts", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Division of Child and Family Services", "Family", "Foster Care", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations", "Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Birkeland, Kera"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 47
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-08"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7bf89ef-711b-454d-ab28-158de4232a9a"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0198.html"
source_hash: "b496f83d3d60b2f0fe4c69e9d68465ddf7d2569235c27dab9970b15360941471"
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 198 (2024) — H.B. 198 Child Welfare Placement Review Amendments

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0198S02.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillamd/HB0198S02.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0198.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **60–13** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **17–12** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **50–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-08** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-08** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** to House Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-29** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-06** to Senate
- **2024-02-06** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-07** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-09** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-13** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-15** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-20** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** circled
- **2024-03-01** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-03-01** uncircled
- **2024-03-01** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-03-01** floor amendment # 2
- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House with amendments
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-03-01** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-01** to Senate
- **2024-03-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-03-02** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-02** to House
- **2024-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-02** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** 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/e7bf89ef-711b-454d-ab28-158de4232a9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).