---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 70 Fatality Review Amendments"
description: "H.B. 70 Fatality Review Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Utah HB 70 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Health and Human Services", "Electronic Databases", "Fatality Reports", "Government Records", "Health and Human Services", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watkins, Christine F."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-26"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33670c6e-dbbf-482c-abbc-6961a7d21779"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0070.html"
source_hash: "d8bb7518cc6f2dd04dbef8298fa7f8c42e2b65ef2d820dddc485eebd108fc5ba"
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 70 (2024) — H.B. 70 Fatality Review 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/HB0070S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0070.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Watkins, Christine F. — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Michael S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-26** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-12-26** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-10** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-01-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-17** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-01-17** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-18** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-01-18** circled
- **2024-01-22** uncircled
- **2024-01-22** floor amendment # 1
- **2024-01-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-01-22** to Senate
- **2024-01-22** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-24** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-01-25** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-01-25** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-01-25** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-26** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-01-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-02** to House with amendments
- **2024-02-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-02-05** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-05** to Senate
- **2024-02-06** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-02-06** to House
- **2024-02-06** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-02-07** 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`
- **2024-03-14** 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/33670c6e-dbbf-482c-abbc-6961a7d21779`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).