---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 451 Foster Care Amendments"
description: "H.B. 451 Foster Care Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 451"
citation: "Utah HB 451 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child Welfare", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Division of Child and Family Services", "Foster Care", "Health and Human Services", "Office of Licensing and Background Checks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gricius, Stephanie"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-02-01"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/486eed7c-aea5-4f95-bae3-c0ac3b719757"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0451.html"
source_hash: "dd4f5e4b0332b16dc9fdc9a4c762ac235d61992d9aa32832655a3ec2722a97e7"
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 451 (2024) — H.B. 451 Foster 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/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0451S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0451.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gricius, Stephanie — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-01** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-01** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-01** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-07** to House Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-08** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-08** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted/Consent Calendar
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-14** to Senate
- **2024-02-14** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-14** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-20** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-02-28** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-28** to House
- **2024-02-28** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-28** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** 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/486eed7c-aea5-4f95-bae3-c0ac3b719757`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).