---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mentally Ill Offenders Amendments"
description: "Mentally Ill Offenders Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 338"
citation: "Utah HB 338 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Pardons and Parole", "Criminal Procedure", "Defenses", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Mental Health", "Punishment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abbott, Nelson T."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bcfc3d37-5c0b-4957-8f37-5b066e5478c7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0338.html"
source_hash: "ca9f1dc6f0f20be55c1725225e8cf105f5820d362b4e45e312475afe63b9f306"
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 338 (2024) — Mentally Ill Offenders 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0338.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0338.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abbott, Nelson T. — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-18** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-18** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-01-24** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-09** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-12** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-13** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate
- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-23** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** circled
- **2024-03-01** uncircled
- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** 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/bcfc3d37-5c0b-4957-8f37-5b066e5478c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).