---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 171 School Threat Amendments"
description: "H.B. 171 School Threat Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 171"
citation: "Utah H.B. 171 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Student health and safety", "K-12 Education", "Higher Education", "Criminal Code", "Crimes", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Campus Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stoddard, Andrew"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 41
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ade31e58-d12c-4c9e-8a8b-a66ee5bdcaa7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0171.html"
source_hash: "e48501d2fe71efb2291f36a89af7db7f61e43173fd2593d42552d01e6fc81a9f"
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. 171 (2020) — H.B. 171 School Threat 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/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0171S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0171.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **6–5** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 3 — **7–4** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Stoddard, Andrew — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-01-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-23** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2020-02-19** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-19** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2020-02-19** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2020-02-19** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 3
- **2020-02-19** House Comm - Held
- **2020-02-21** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 1 to # 2
- **2020-02-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-02-24** comm rpt/substituted
- **2020-02-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-27** to Senate
- **2020-02-28** received from House
- **2020-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** to Senate Education Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-02** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-02** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2020-03-12** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-12** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2020-03-12** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-12** to House
- **2020-03-12** received from Senate
- **2020-03-12** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-16** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-16** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2020-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2020-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2020-03-23** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2020-03-23** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-31** 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/ade31e58-d12c-4c9e-8a8b-a66ee5bdcaa7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).