---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 398 Substance Use and Health Care Amendments"
description: "H.B. 398 Substance Use and Health Care Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 398"
citation: "Utah H.B. 398 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Controlled Substances", "Substance Abuse", "Health Care", "Mental Health", "Health Care Providers", "Mental Health Professional", "Inmates", "Suicide", "Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daw, Brad M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 45
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-21"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4da2207-a239-4f18-85e2-98b1c0785680"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0398.html"
source_hash: "d9aa9bde03568c1d07a1c901f04f48edcdc486c029379508ae19378fd041fc9a"
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 H.B. 398 (2019) — H.B. 398 Substance Use and Health Care Amendments

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0398S03.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0398.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **59–7** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **57–11** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 3 — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daw, Brad M. — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-27** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2019-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** comm rpt/amended
- **2019-02-28** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** floor amendment # 4
- **2019-03-04** floor amendment # 5
- **2019-03-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-04** to Senate
- **2019-03-05** received from House
- **2019-03-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 3
- **2019-03-08** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-11** comm rpt/substituted
- **2019-03-11** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-11** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-03-12** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-03-13** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2019-03-13** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-03-13** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2019-03-13** to House with amendments
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-03-14** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2019-03-14** to Senate
- **2019-03-14** received from House
- **2019-03-14** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-03-14** to House
- **2019-03-14** received from Senate
- **2019-03-14** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-21** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-21** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-22** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-22** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** 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/d4da2207-a239-4f18-85e2-98b1c0785680`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).