---
type: "Bill"
title: "Indigent Defense Amendments"
description: "Indigent Defense Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 171"
citation: "Utah SB 171 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abuse", "Neglect", "or Dependency", "Child Welfare", "Health and Human Services", "Indigent Counsel", "Judicial Operations", "Juvenile Justice", "Juveniles", "Parental Defense"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weiler, Todd"]
version_count: 14
action_count: 49
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-27T15:53:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:43:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ac2e8d8c-6669-4cbf-8e89-a162b4c1ccb9"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0171.html"
source_hash: "e3c937d2699c6dbb458742e0408afa822445d5c74196c7d11653e90e611a116f"
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 171 (2025) — Indigent Defense 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0171.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0171 To SB0171S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0171S01 To SB0171S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0171S02 To SB0171S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB171H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB171H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB171H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB171S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB171S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB171S20.pdf)
11. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0171S01.xml)
12. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0171S02.xml)
13. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0171S03.xml)
14. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0171.xml)

## Sponsors

- Weiler, Todd — primary (person)
- Clancy, Tyler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27T15:53:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-27T15:53:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-27T17:50:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-28T18:21:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-29T18:22:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T23:15:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-05T23:20:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-06T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-11T22:54:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-11T22:57:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-11T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13T17:37:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-13T17:37:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-14T17:42:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-14T17:44:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-14T17:44:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-18T19:36:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T21:10:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-21T18:13:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T00:26:00+00:00** House Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed `failure`
- **2025-02-28T00:30:00+00:00** House Comm - Held
- **2025-03-03T16:08:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-03T16:09:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:28:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-03T21:28:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-05T04:37:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T04:37:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T18:09:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-05T18:12:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-05T18:12:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-05T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T21:11:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-05T21:33:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-05T21:34:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:34:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-05T23:17:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T02:44:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T02:44:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T14:57:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T14:57:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-06T21:07:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-06T21:07:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:07:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:07:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:43:00+00:00** 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/ac2e8d8c-6669-4cbf-8e89-a162b4c1ccb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).