---
type: "Bill"
title: "Juvenile Competency Amendments"
description: "Juvenile Competency Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 277"
citation: "Utah HB 277 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Department of Human Services", "Insanity Defense/Competency", "Judicial Operations", "Juvenile Justice", "Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["King, Brian S."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16ce1ef4-97a7-4929-a004-eb1b6f3b07dd"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/HB0277.html"
source_hash: "14a428c0004c0cb36238b39a065a457680e01cc10a0b6c22916d9fda9135b4e0"
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 277 (2022) — Juvenile Competency 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/~2022/bills/hbillint/HB0277.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/hbillenr/HB0277.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- King, Brian S. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-31** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-31** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-02-01** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-02-03** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-02-04** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-11** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-15** to Senate
- **2022-02-15** received from House
- **2022-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-16** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-02-23** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-02-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-25** signed by President/returned to House
- **2022-02-25** to House
- **2022-02-25** received from Senate
- **2022-02-25** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2022-03-01** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2022-03-01** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-10** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-22** 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/16ce1ef4-97a7-4929-a004-eb1b6f3b07dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).