---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 71 Behavioral Health Crisis Response Modifications"
description: "H.B. 71 Behavioral Health Crisis Response Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 71"
citation: "Utah HB 71 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Economic Development", "Grant Programs and Incentives", "Health Care", "Health and Human Services", "Mental Health", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliason, Steve"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-26"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0d4606f-8684-4d12-a7a2-994c3946680f"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0071.html"
source_hash: "a2a22f5a7076569d4fbae00d08ec3a3cc95285d985dcb3893d8af2e1763094a5"
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 71 (2024) — H.B. 71 Behavioral Health Crisis Response Modifications

## 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/HB0071S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0071.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with Senate amendment — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eliason, Steve — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — 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** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-01-22** to House Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-01-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-01-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-30** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-01** to Senate
- **2024-02-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- **2024-02-08** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** circled
- **2024-02-14** uncircled
- **2024-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-14** placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2024-02-27** 3nd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-02-29** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-03-01** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2024-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** substituted from # 0 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House with amendments
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2024-03-01** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-01** 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`
- **2024-03-02** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-02** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** 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/f0d4606f-8684-4d12-a7a2-994c3946680f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).