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type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 259 Suicide Prevention in Correctional Facilities"
description: "H.B. 259 Suicide Prevention in Correctional Facilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 259"
citation: "Utah HB 259 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Counties", "Department of Corrections", "Department of Public Safety", "Human Services", "Inmates", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Mental Health", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Suicide"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moss, Carol Spackman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 51
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-20"
last_action: "2023-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1afbe1ae-a25f-4d95-9676-8719695f4097"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0259.html"
source_hash: "5187dc8940d15960d5f55f9f0654488794aa763b4f146a20ac793c899a8bbe14"
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 259 (2023) — H.B. 259 Suicide Prevention in Correctional Facilities
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0259S04.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0259.pdf)
## Votes
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **100** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **30** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **100** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **700** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **711** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **270** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **30** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Moss, Carol Spackman — primary (person)
- Weiler, Todd D. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-23** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-25** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-26** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-01-31** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-01-31** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-02-01** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2023-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** circled
- **2023-02-03** uncircled
- **2023-02-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-03** to Senate
- **2023-02-06** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-02-13** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2023-02-14** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-14** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-15** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-15** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-16** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** circled
- **2023-02-28** 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-02** substituted from # 1 to # 4 `substitution`
- **2023-03-02** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to House with amendments
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-03-02** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2023-03-02** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-03-02** circled
- **2023-03-02** uncircled
- **2023-03-02** concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to House
- **2023-03-03** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-03-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-03-03** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-14** 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/1afbe1ae-a25f-4d95-9676-8719695f4097`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).