---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 421 Homelessness and Vulnerable Populations Amendments"
description: "H.B. 421 Homelessness and Vulnerable Populations Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "Utah HB 421 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Department of Public Safety", "Grant Programs and Incentives", "Homelessness", "Hospitals", "Human Services", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Public Safety", "Utah State Hospital"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliason, Steve"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 51
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6979cbc-55f8-4c79-aa25-0bd626e060ef"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0421.html"
source_hash: "4c0f942a518a03e7e4d8ae2126d82f99c28919aee2c05008c774589a082df8f4"
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 421 (2024) — H.B. 421 Homelessness and Vulnerable Populations 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/HB0421S06.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0421.pdf)

## Votes

- concurs with Senate amendment — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–2** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eliason, Steve — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-05** to House Government Operations Committee
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 2
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** substituted from # 2 to # 3 `substitution`
- **2024-02-20** circled
- **2024-02-22** uncircled
- **2024-02-22** substituted from # 3 to # 4 `substitution`
- **2024-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-22** to Senate
- **2024-02-23** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-23** to Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-02-26** 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`
- **2024-02-29** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-29** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-29** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-29** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** circled
- **2024-02-29** uncircled
- **2024-02-29** substituted from # 4 to # 6 `substitution`
- **2024-02-29** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-29** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-29** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-29** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-29** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **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/f6979cbc-55f8-4c79-aa25-0bd626e060ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).