---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Respite Care Pilot Program"
description: "Medical Respite Care Pilot Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 34"
citation: "Utah HB 34 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Health", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Homelessness", "Medicaid", "Workforce Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnigan, James A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-12-16"
last_action: "2021-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9ef78ac-c131-4f3f-93fd-2eb8e4f7d848"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0034.html"
source_hash: "5872805c3d113af14318d22b3a22d8ecf2922f75a49fcb059cbe0a06f966ddf1"
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 34 (2021) — Medical Respite Care 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/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0034.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0034.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dunnigan, James A. — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-16** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2020-12-16** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2020-12-16** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2020-12-16** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-01-06** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-07** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-01-19** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-19** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-01-25** to Senate
- **2021-01-26** received from House
- **2021-01-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-03** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-03** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-04** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2021-02-17** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-17** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-17** to House
- **2021-02-17** received from Senate
- **2021-02-17** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-11** 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/c9ef78ac-c131-4f3f-93fd-2eb8e4f7d848`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).