---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 51 Health and Human Services Funding Amendments"
description: "H.B. 51 Health and Human Services Funding Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 51"
citation: "Utah HB 51 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Business", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Health Insurance", "Health and Human Services", "Insurance", "Legislative Operations", "Legislative Organization", "Legislative Staff Offices", "Medicaid", "Public Budgeting", "Sunsets and Repealers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Spendlove, Robert M."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-21"
last_action: "2024-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/adf6e5ef-78f1-434e-b9ed-fd3b5969eb2d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0051.html"
source_hash: "38b611531b8d476d68f74935ff0c623f71877a3aefbefbc423a2a22bb31a6dfe"
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 51 (2024) — H.B. 51 Health and Human Services Funding 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/HB0051S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0051.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **22–1** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **20–1** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Spendlove, Robert M. — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Michael S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-31** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-01-31** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-02** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-02-05** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-05** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-06** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** circled
- **2024-02-14** uncircled
- **2024-02-14** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-14** to Senate
- **2024-02-15** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-19** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-20** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-23** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-23** to House
- **2024-02-23** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-23** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-26** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-08** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-08** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-20** 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/adf6e5ef-78f1-434e-b9ed-fd3b5969eb2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).