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+type: "Bill"
+title: "H.B. 561 Communication Awareness Pilot Program"
+description: "H.B. 561 Communication Awareness Pilot Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
+legislature: "Utah Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 561"
+citation: "Utah HB 561 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Child Development", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Health Care", "Health and Human Services", "Mental Health", "Public Utilities and Technology", "Substance Abuse and Mental Health"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Welton, Douglas R."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-02-15"
+last_action: "2024-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90b58cd3-8921-422b-9045-608acd499f12"
+source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0561.html"
+source_hash: "37d02e008c54c1c86268eb29857a99b618f0bb5c3f41c61abc8c8e6f5e9d09fb"
+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 561 (2024) — H.B. 561 Communication Awareness Pilot Program
+
+## 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/HB0561S03.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0561.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- concurs with Senate amendment — **52–17** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · lower
+- passed 3rd reading — **54–15** (pass) · lower
+- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **22–4** (pass) · upper
+- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–2** (pass) · lower
+- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Welton, Douglas R. — primary (person)
+- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
+- **2024-02-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
+- **2024-02-15** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
+- **2024-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-02-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
+- **2024-02-22** to House Health and Human Services Committee
+- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
+- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-26** comm rpt/substituted
+- **2024-02-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-26** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
+- **2024-02-26** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-26** circled
+- **2024-02-26** uncircled
+- **2024-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** to Senate
+- **2024-02-26** received from House `receipt`
+- **2024-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2024-02-26** to Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
+- **2024-02-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-28** comm rpt/sent to Rules
+- **2024-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
+- **2024-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-28** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
+- **2024-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
+- **2024-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** to House with amendments
+- **2024-02-28** fiscal note publicly available
+- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-02-28** placed on Concurrence Calendar
+- **2024-02-28** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-28** to Senate
+- **2024-02-29** received from House `receipt`
+- **2024-02-29** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** to House
+- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
+- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
+- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
+- **2024-03-11** 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/90b58cd3-8921-422b-9045-608acd499f12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).
+