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Senate approves behavioral health bill that funds Uinta Basin receiving center and adds homeless shelter capacity provisions

Utah Senate · March 5, 2026
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Summary

The Senate passed a substituted and amended House Bill 572 expanding behavioral health funding and authorizing operational support for a receiving center in the Uinta Basin; the sixth substitute incorporated policy from a homeless shelters bill and passed after suspension of the three‑reading requirement.

The Utah Senate passed sixth substitute House Bill 572, a package of behavioral and mental health amendments that includes funding for a receiving center in the Uinta Basin and policy to allow shelter capacity expansion under certain emergency conditions.

Senator Vickers moved to substitute the fifth substitute with the sixth,…

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