Source: Utah S.B. 297 (2025) Legislative Status Record

Summary

The Legislature's machine-readable status record for S.B. 297 (2025 General Session), "Congregate Care Amendments". It supplies what the enrolled statute does not: that the bill was signed on 2025-03-19, that it was rewritten five times on its way through, and that it drew real opposition — six no votes in the Senate and nineteen in the House.

That last point is why this record is worth a page rather than a footnote. The earlier round of reform passed close to unanimously (S.B. 127); this one, which created an ombudsman with powers of entry and records access, did not.

Useful Claims

• The bill became law on 2025-03-19. Last action "Governor Signed", owner "Lieutenant Governor's office for filing", action date 2025-03-19 8:24 AM.
• The enacted version was the fifth substitute, SB0297S05, floor-amended once in the House on 2025-03-05.
• Roll calls: Senate third reading 19-6-4 on 2025-02-28; House third reading 53-19-3 on 2025-03-05; Senate concurrence in the House amendment 27-1-1 later that day. Senate second reading had passed 24-3-2 the previous day.
• No committee member in either chamber voted against it: Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice reported it favorably 8-0-1 on 2025-02-21; House Health and Human Services reported it favorably 10-0-4 on 2025-03-04. "Unanimous" is the wrong word for the second of those — four members did not vote, so ten of a fourteen-member committee carried it.
• It was returned to House Rules "due to fiscal impact" on 2025-03-04, and fiscal notes were published for substitutes 2 through 5.
• Sponsors: Sen. Michael K. McKell as prime sponsor — the same senator who carried S.B. 127 in 2021 — with Rep. Casey Snider as floor sponsor.
• The record's own subject tags include Child Welfare, Health Care Facilities, Mental Health, Juvenile Justice Services, and the Office of Licensing and Background Checks; the code sections it touches are 26B-1-204, 26B-1-334, 26B-2-101, 26B-2-104, 26B-2-107, 26B-2-120, 26B-2-124, and 26B-2-709.

Verbatim

"'lastAction':'Governor Signed','lastActionOwner':'Lieutenant Governor's office for filing','lastActionDate':'3/19/2025'" — Bill-level fields

"{'description':'Senate/ passed 3rd reading','owner':'Clerk of the House','actionDate':'2/28/2025 3:39 PM','actionClass':'S','voteID':'1462','voiceVote':'0','voteHouse':'S','voteStr':'19-6-4'" — Action history

"{'description':'House/ passed 3rd reading','owner':'Senate Secretary','actionDate':'3/5/2025 3:11 PM','actionClass':'H','voteID':'1200','voiceVote':'0','voteHouse':'H','voteStr':'53-19-3'" — Action history

"'voteStr':'27-1-1','actionCode':'SCONCUR'" — Action history, Senate concurrence

"'billNumberLong':'SB0297S05','fileNumber':'2025FL1086','shortTitle':'Congregate Care Amendments'" — Bill-level fields

"'primeSponsorName':'Sen. McKell, Michael K.','primeSponsorHouse':'S','floorSponsor':'SNIDEC','floorSponsorName':'Rep. Snider, Casey'" — Bill-level fields

Reliability Notes

Primary tier: the Legislature's own record of its own proceedings, at a mandated host, so no archive snapshot is owed. Quotes are fragments of the JSON as served, with double quotes folded to single quotes for markdown nesting; the words, names, dates, and tallies are unchanged.

This endpoint is undocumented, found by reading the bill page's own client-side script (/js/rexBill.js), which builds /data/<sessionID>/<billNumber>.json. It is what the Legislature's page displays, and it carries no stability promise — hence the capture.

A vote string is three numbers, and the third is not a no vote. Utah records yea-nay-absent, so 53-19-3 is fifty-three for, nineteen against, three not voting. Reading the third figure as opposition would overstate the contest, and reading the second as noise would understate it.

The record says nothing about why anyone voted no, and this page does not guess. Floor-debate audio for the four listed floor items exists in the Legislature's own archive and has not been reviewed; the committee agendas and minutes are linked from the same record.

A status record is not a statute. For what the bill actually requires, read the enrolled text; this document establishes only that it passed, when, by what margins, and in which version.

Related Pages

• Utah Congregate Care Oversight Reform
• Source: Utah S.B. 297 (2025) — Congregate Care Amendments
• Source: Utah S.B. 127 (2021) Legislative Status Record