republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/sb-297.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Congregate Care Amendments"
description: "Congregate Care Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 297"
citation: "Utah SB 297 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Committees", "Child Welfare", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Division of Child and Family Services", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Health Care", "Health Care Facilities", "Health and Human Services", "Juvenile Justice Services", "Mental Health", "Office of Licensing and Background Checks", "Public Funds and Accounts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 21
action_count: 49
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-19T18:35:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T14:24:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a0ad44e-9c59-4370-85d8-2fd32a30b096"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0297.html"
source_hash: "7ce4bead8e58eaa9d6438fb21532a16a7bdb7ff9a6c69e7b66ed9b412338a075"
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 297 (2025) — Congregate Care 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/SB0297.xml)
2. **Amended 3/5/2025 15:03:638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0297S05_2025-03-05_15-47-56.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 3/5/2025 15:03:638** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0297S05_2025-03-05_15-47-56.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0297 To SB0297S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0297S01 To SB0297S02.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0297S02 To SB0297S03.pdf)
7. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0297S03 To SB0297S04.pdf)
8. **Comparison to Sub #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0297S04 To SB0297S05.pdf)
9. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0297S05.Hamd.1.pdf)
10. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB297H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB297H10.pdf)
12. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB297H20.pdf)
13. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB297S10.pdf)
14. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB297S10.pdf)
15. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB297S20.pdf)
16. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0297S01.xml)
17. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0297S02.xml)
18. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0297S03.xml)
19. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0297S04.xml)
20. **Substitute #5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0297S05.xml)
21. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0297.xml)

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Snider, Casey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-19T18:35:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-19T18:35:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-19T20:57:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-20T17:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-20T21:23:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T16:01:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-21T16:19:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-21T21:15:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-25T18:31:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:32:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-28T02:23:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-28T02:25:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-28T02:29:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T22:08:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T22:08:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-28T22:36:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-28T22:37:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-28T22:39:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T22:39:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-28T23:19:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T23:41:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-03T18:24:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T21:41:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-04T21:41:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T04:20:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-05T04:20:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-05T18:45:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T18:45:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T22:03:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-05T22:06:00+00:00** House/ floor amendment
- **2025-03-05T22:11:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-05T22:11:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T00:57:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T00:57:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-06T04:20:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T04:20:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T15:36:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T15:36:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:36:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T19:43:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T19:43:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T21:44:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T21:44:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T22:51:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T22:51:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:41:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:41:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19T14:24:00+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/4a0ad44e-9c59-4370-85d8-2fd32a30b096`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).