---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 246 Mental Health Workforce Amendments"
description: "H.B. 246 Mental Health Workforce Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 246"
citation: "Utah H.B. 246 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Higher Education", "Health", "Health Care", "Mental Health", "Health Care Professionals", "Mental Health Professionals", "Colleges and Universities", "Higher Education Students", "Physicians and Surgeons"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Duckworth, Susan"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-03-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa8460fa-4ead-4fba-9d01-fdbb082201cd"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0246.html"
source_hash: "49a33ceba363c1b7a2c53ee7318816e4edc845d5f5a2ef6f09fd0bc401e17cc3"
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. 246 (2020) — H.B. 246 Mental Health Workforce 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/HB0246S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0246.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **59–12** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **59–10** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Duckworth, Susan — primary (person)
- Okerlund, Ralph — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-02-03** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-02-04** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-02-04** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-02-06** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** circled
- **2020-02-25** uncircled
- **2020-02-25** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-02-25** to Senate
- **2020-02-25** received from House
- **2020-02-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-27** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-10** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2020-03-10** substituted from # 1 to # 2
- **2020-03-10** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2020-03-10** to House with amendments
- **2020-03-10** received from Senate
- **2020-03-10** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2020-03-10** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-03-10** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-03-10** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2020-03-10** to Senate
- **2020-03-11** received from House
- **2020-03-11** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-11** to House
- **2020-03-11** received from Senate
- **2020-03-11** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-12** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-12** 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/aa8460fa-4ead-4fba-9d01-fdbb082201cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).