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H.B. 552 makes a broad set of changes to how Utah organizes and funds its behavioral health system. It shifts administration of the Governor's Suicide Prevention Fund from the governor's office to the Office of Substance Use and Mental Health, which also gains authority to appoint the statewide suicide prevention coordinator. The bill creates a new community-based peer support specialist grant program — funded at $10 million ongoing — that awards grants to organizations providing recovery support to people with mental health or substance use disorders, prioritizing areas with provider shortages. It also expands eligibility for Utah State Hospital admission to include people with severe neurological disorders, requires the Department of Health and Human Services to build a database tracking involuntary psychiatric commitments by December 2026, and renames and restructures the Utah Substance Use and Mental Health Advisory Committee into the Utah Behavioral Health Policy Review Committee with a narrower advisory role under the Behavioral Health Commission. A new family outreach specialist position is created to contact families of people who have died by suicide or overdose, assist the medical examiner with data collection, and provide bereavement support. The bill appropriates over $114 million for fiscal year 2027, including $90.5 million for the State Hospital — largely to establish 30 new adult beds, including beds for patients with neurological disorders — and funding for mobile crisis outreach teams, rural behavioral health receiving centers, and suicide prevention campaigns.