2025 bills / H.B. 329
H.B. 329 Homeless Services Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill creates a Shelter Counties Advisory Board to advise the Utah Homeless Board and requires the board to collect and report certain data. It also lets state homeless-to-housing funds pay certain transportation costs to connect a homeless person with a support network outside Utah, requires service providers to design services aimed at helping people move toward self-sufficiency, sets safety requirements for homeless shelters including winter shelters, and penalizes state- or federally funded providers that refuse to comply with those safety rules.
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Official description
- defines terms
- creates the Shelter Counties Advisory Board to make recommendations to the Utah Homeless Board (board) regarding homeless services
- requires the board to collect and report on certain data
- provides that funds from the Homeless to Housing Reform Restricted Account may be used for certain transportation costs to connect the individual with a support network outside of the state
- modifies the process by which the board approves funding requests from the Homeless Shelter Cities Mitigation Restricted Account
- amends certain provisions of the winter response task force
- enacts provisions requiring service providers to design certain services to assist homeless individuals in progressing and transitioning from struggling with homelessness to personal thriving
- enacts provisions requiring certain safety requirements for homeless shelters, including winter response shelters
- provides for penalties if a service provider that receives state or federal funds refuses to comply with certain safety requirements
- provides certain exceptions under the COVID-19 grant program for licensed residential vocational and life skills programs
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 12 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/18/2025 9:01 AMWho voted how
- 12 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 2/18/2025 9:01 AMWho voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · 2/24/2025 4:53 PMWho voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · 2/28/2025 10:05 AMWho voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · 3/7/2025 4:58 PMWho voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/7/2025 8:45 PM