---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 246 Juvenile Justice Modifications"
description: "S.B. 246 Juvenile Justice Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 246"
citation: "Utah SB 246 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice", "Education", "Juvenile Justice", "Juvenile Justice Services", "K-12 Education", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "School Districts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Escamilla, Luz"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab6cbcab-2db6-4b33-a7d6-c37144d86a79"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0246.html"
source_hash: "bff6fa67b3c75dab7fe6338bc4369ae44ef4088f3faf5e1051c67ad0a8ec0003"
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 SB 246 (2024) — S.B. 246 Juvenile Justice 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/sbillint/SB0246S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0246.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Escamilla, Luz — primary (person)
- Clancy, Tyler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-15** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** to Senate Education Committee
- **2024-02-20** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-20** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-20** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** circled
- **2024-02-23** uncircled
- **2024-02-23** substituted from # 0 to # 1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-25** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-26** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-26** to House
- **2024-02-26** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-26** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-27** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2024-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2024-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-03-01** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to Senate
- **2024-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-08** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-08** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** 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/ab6cbcab-2db6-4b33-a7d6-c37144d86a79`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).