All Roll Calls
Yes: 147 • No: 0
UtahS.B. 872026 General SessionSenate
Naloxone Amendments
Sponsored By: Jen Plumb (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Controlled SubstancesHealth and Human ServicesHealth CareHealth Care ProfessionalsOpioids
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Legal protection for overdose helpers and providers
Beginning May 6, 2026, people other than health care facilities or providers receive civil and criminal protection for good-faith overdose response. This covers acts or omissions when giving overdose medicine to someone they believe is having an opiate-related overdose. Covered expired medicine must be no more than 24 months past its labeled expiration month and year. Health care providers receive emergency-response protection only without a legal duty to respond, while acting within their professional scope and following the law. For licensed professionals covered by the amended licensing laws, authorized good-faith prescribing or dispensing is not unlawful or unprofessional conduct. Recipients must be people at increased overdose risk, their helpers, or outreach providers receiving medicine for authorized use. These protections do not create a duty of care or change professional standards of care.
More overdose medicine for people at risk
Beginning May 6, 2026, licensed providers can prescribe or dispense overdose medicine, including naloxone, without a prescriber-patient relationship. Recipients can be people at increased overdose risk, people who can help them, or overdose outreach providers. Eligible expired medicine must be no more than 24 months past its labeled expiration month and year. Approved standing orders allow dispensing without separate prescriptions; they must list authorized dispensers by license number. These orders require annual reviews, records naming recipients and medicines dispensed, and Division of Professional Licensing approval through rulemaking. Outreach providers can obtain, store, and give the medicine to people at risk or their helpers. Dispensers must teach overdose recognition and response, including medicine use, and explain expired medicine’s safety, effectiveness, and risks. Outreach providers must pass along written instructions. Good-faith prescribing, dispensing, and outreach distribution receive protection from civil damages within the law’s requirements.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Jen Plumb
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Gwynn, Matthew H.
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 2/19/2026
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 70 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2026
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 10 • No: 0
House vote • 2/12/2026
House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
Yes: 10 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/3/2026
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/2/2026
Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/2/2026
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 27 • No: 0
Senate vote • 1/21/2026
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Senate vote • 1/21/2026
Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 4 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/17/2026Senate/ to Governor
3/16/2026SenateSenate/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/16/2026SenateSenate/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/4/2026SenateEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/4/2026Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
2/23/2026Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
2/23/2026Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling
2/19/2026SenateSenate/ received from House
2/19/2026SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/19/2026HouseHouse/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate
2/19/2026HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/19/2026HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
2/19/2026HouseHouse/ placed back on 3rd Reading Calendar
2/17/2026HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
2/13/2026HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ placed on Consent Calendar
2/13/2026HouseHouse Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
2/12/2026House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/12/2026House/ to standing committee
2/10/2026HouseHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
2/4/2026HouseHouse/ received from Senate
2/3/2026HouseSenate/ to House
2/3/2026SenateSenate/ passed 3rd reading
2/3/2026SenateSenate/ 3rd reading
2/3/2026SenateSenate/ passed 2nd reading
2/2/2026Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/4/2026
Substitute #2
1/29/2026
Substitute #1
1/16/2026
Introduced
1/6/2026