---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 38 Substance Use and Health Care Amendments"
description: "H.B. 38 Substance Use and Health Care Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "H.B. 38"
citation: "Utah H.B. 38 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Controlled Substances", "Substance Abuse", "Health Care", "Mental Health", "Health Care Professionals", "Mental Health Professionals", "Inmates", "Suicide", "Human Services", "Department of Human Services", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daw, Brad M."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 50
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-12-20"
last_action: "2020-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3db2c04f-58c9-4265-b087-8885ad935c00"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0038.html"
source_hash: "92f20b966b6057bd4a97fb3fab0f2845d26a373ee971d153faa51568f41a966b"
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. 38 (2020) — H.B. 38 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](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillint/HB0038S03.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillamd/HB0038S03.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/hbillenr/HB0038.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **67–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **43–27** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Daw, Brad M. — primary (person)
- Christensen, Allen M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-12-23** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2020-01-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2020-01-28** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-30** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-30** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-31** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** floor amendment # 1
- **2020-01-31** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-01-31** to Senate
- **2020-02-03** received from House
- **2020-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2020-02-12** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-02-13** comm rpt/substituted
- **2020-02-13** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2020-02-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** floor amendment # 1
- **2020-02-19** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2020-02-19** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2020-02-25** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2020-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** substituted from # 1 to # 3
- **2020-03-02** circled
- **2020-03-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-03-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2020-03-05** uncircled
- **2020-03-05** floor amendment # 1
- **2020-03-05** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2020-03-05** to House with amendments
- **2020-03-05** received from Senate
- **2020-03-05** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2020-03-06** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2020-03-06** to Senate
- **2020-03-06** received from House
- **2020-03-06** signed by President/returned to House
- **2020-03-06** to House
- **2020-03-09** received from Senate
- **2020-03-09** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2020-03-10** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2020-03-10** 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`
- **2020-03-28** 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/3db2c04f-58c9-4265-b087-8885ad935c00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).