republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2024/hb-20.md

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Bill	H.B. 20 Parental Rights Amendments	H.B. 20 Parental Rights Amendments	us/states/ut	Utah Legislature	2024	HB 20	Utah HB 20 (2024)	bill	Child Welfare Division of Child and Family Services Family Health and Human Services	enacted	Birkeland, Kera	2	35	6	2023-12-19	2024-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/1e2d6c9f-2d0b-4834-b941-21f0e1774b6b	https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0020.html	2a80510fb4b0a0dda05971b04ae15f06235d0769fb77e9ee7917b671a0679366	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ut

Utah HB 20 (2024) — H.B. 20 Parental Rights Amendments

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• passed 3rd reading — 25–0 (pass) · upper
• passed 3rd reading — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• passed 2nd reading — 24–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — 3–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Birkeland, Kera — primary (person)
• Escamilla, Luz — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-12-19 Bill Numbered but not Distributed
• 2023-12-19 Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
• 2024-01-10 received bill from Legislative Research receipt
• 2024-01-12 to Printing with fiscal note
• 2024-01-16 received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst receipt
• 2024-01-16 1st reading (Introduced) introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-16 to House Judiciary Committee
• 2024-01-19 House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
• 2024-01-19 House Comm - Favorable Recommendation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-01-22 comm rpt/substituted
• 2024-01-22 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-01-29 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-01-29 passed 3rd reading passage
• 2024-01-29 to Senate
• 2024-01-29 received from House receipt
• 2024-01-30 1st reading (Introduced) introduction, reading-1
• 2024-01-30 to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
• 2024-01-31 Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-01 committee report favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-02-01 placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
• 2024-02-08 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-02-08 passed 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-02-09 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-02-09 passed 3rd reading passage
• 2024-02-09 signed by President/returned to House passage
• 2024-02-09 to House
• 2024-02-12 received from Senate receipt
• 2024-02-12 signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling passage
• 2024-02-12 Bill Received from House for Enrolling
• 2024-02-12 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
• 2024-03-07 Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate enrolled
• 2024-03-07 enrolled bill to Printing
• 2024-03-08 received enrolled bill from Printing receipt
• 2024-03-08 to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-13 Governor Signed executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1e2d6c9f-2d0b-4834-b941-21f0e1774b6b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).