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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Behavioral Health Modifications"
description: "Behavioral Health Modifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 491"
citation: "Utah HB 491 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Rulemaking", "Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures", "Counties", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Department of Public Safety", "Electronic Databases", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Government Records", "Health Care", "Health Insurance", "Health and Human Services", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Local Mental Health Authorities", "Medicaid", "Mental Health", "New Rulemaking Authority", "Office of Licensing and Background Checks", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Public Safety", "Utah State Hospital"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eliason, Steve"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 48
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T20:01:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:39:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7339b76-d1d2-4038-9ed0-ef85e6dde62f"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0491.html"
source_hash: "460961ce9feb95d80a349afcf463d4a61d4c5fa725e427417075aa1b4e137f2f"
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 491 (2025) — Behavioral Health 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0491.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0491 To HB0491S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0491S01 To HB0491S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0491S02 To HB0491S03.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB491H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB491H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB491H20.pdf)
8. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB491S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB491S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB491S20.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB491S30.pdf)
12. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0491S01.xml)
13. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0491S02.xml)
14. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0491S03.xml)
15. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0491.xml)
## Sponsors
- Eliason, Steve — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-12T20:01:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-12T20:01:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-13T16:14:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T17:30:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-14T19:25:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T18:14:00+00:00** Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- **2025-02-19T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T15:49:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T21:18:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T21:18:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-27T21:32:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-27T21:38:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:38:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-27T23:06:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T01:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T23:06:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T03:19:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-06T03:30:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T03:31:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-06T03:34:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T03:34:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-06T04:14:00+00:00** Senate/ motion to reconsider
- **2025-03-06T04:15:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-06T04:15:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-06T17:43:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-06T17:44:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-06T17:46:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T17:46:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-06T21:15:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T21:15:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-06T22:16:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:16:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T00:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T00:10:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T00:11:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:44:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:44:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T23:03:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T23:04:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T17:08:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T17:08:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:39:00+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/e7339b76-d1d2-4038-9ed0-ef85e6dde62f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).