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Utah’s Opioid Settlements

This Community Guide will describe how Utah is spending its opioid settlements and whether Utah is working to ensure community access to opioid settlement funds. Last revised September 1, 2024.

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50% State Share

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50% Local Share

Ultimate Decisionmaker

County officials

Decision-making Process

The Utah state legislature’s appropriates funds from this share based on input from the .

Counties decide autonomously but must report planned uses to the state.

Supplantation

Prohibited

Prohibited

Grant Funding

No

Up to each locality (availability and processes will vary)

Public Input

Yes (not required, but see )

Up to each locality (not required)

Advisory Body

Yes (not required, but see Utah’s Opioid Task Force’s (OSAC)).

There are no formal legal mechanisms that govern the OSAC’s composition or require it to include member(s) with lived and/or living experience.

Up to each locality (not required)

Expenditures

Public reporting required. View appropriations and annual reports on the Department of Health & Human Services’ page.

Public reporting required (but not yet available). Bookmark the Utah Opioid Task Force’s website and Department of Health & Human Services’ page.

Updates

For updates on the state share, visit the Utah Opioid Task Force’s website, which links to the . You can also review the Utah Office of Substance Use and Mental Health’s website, which contains information on legislative sessions and approved funding and links to its .

For resources on local share programming, visit the Utah Association of Counties’ page. For other updates on the local share, check the websites for your county commission or local health department.

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Total Funds

$520.8 million[1]


[1] Total is rounded. See . Accessed September 1, 2024.

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Allocation

50% to the state and 50% to local governments

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Mechanism

State-Local Agreement (); Legislation (and )

Utah state legislaturearrow-up-right
Executive Appropriations Committeearrow-up-right
Social Services Appropriation Subcommitteearrow-up-right
ongoing surveyarrow-up-right
Opioid Settlement Advisory Committeearrow-up-right
Opioid Litigationarrow-up-right
Opioid Settlement Prioritiesarrow-up-right
Opioid Litigationarrow-up-right
Opioid Settlement Prioritiesarrow-up-right
Utah Opioid Settlement Spending Blueprintarrow-up-right
Opioid Litigationarrow-up-right
Annual Opioid Litigation Funding Reportarrow-up-right
Opioid Settlement Resourcesarrow-up-right
The Official Opioid Settlement Tracker Tallyarrow-up-right
One Utah Opioid Settlement Memorandum of Understandingarrow-up-right
Utah Code Ann. Secs. 51-9-801 arrow-up-right
26B-5-211arrow-up-right