republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/hb-129.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adoption Records Access Amendments"
description: "Adoption Records Access Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 129"
citation: "Utah HB 129 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Courts", "Family", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Health and Human Services", "Judicial Operations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 12
action_count: 41
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-07T23:19:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T22:31:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57861054-1898-4014-a1b8-51c699abab63"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0129.html"
source_hash: "fd0b7fc9c841d99a320de83d7ce30c8381c8937d634d8553dff07aac2929047a"
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 129 (2025) — Adoption Records Access 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0129.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0129 To HB0129S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0129S01 To HB0129S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB129H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB129H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB129H20.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB129S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB129S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB129S20.pdf)
10. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0129S01.xml)
11. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0129S02.xml)
12. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0129.xml)

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Balderree, Heidi — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-07T23:19:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-07T23:19:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-15T16:59:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T16:08:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:27:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-23T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T22:02:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30T18:20:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-30T18:20:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-07T18:20:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-07T18:22:00+00:00** House/ substituted
- **2025-02-07T18:26:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-07T18:26:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-07T19:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-07T21:19:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T15:47:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T15:59:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-13T18:32:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-13T18:32:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-19T21:54:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-19T21:58:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T18:25:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-20T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-02-20T21:09:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-20T21:09:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-02-21T17:48:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-21T17:48:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-21T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-02-21T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-24T16:03:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-24T16:03:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-25T16:39:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-02-25T16:39:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-06T18:33:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-06T18:33:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T17:28:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T17:28:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-24T22:31:00+00:00** 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/57861054-1898-4014-a1b8-51c699abab63`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).