---
type: "Bill"
title: "Utah Health Care Workforce Financial Assistance Program Reauthorization"
description: "Utah Health Care Workforce Financial Assistance Program Reauthorization"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "H.B. 31"
citation: "Utah H.B. 31 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Redd, Edward H."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-12-12"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1d24fd63-3f7c-4630-9a1b-657128b0bcf1"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/HB0031.html"
source_hash: "eaf8d312108ad109717ba648357fd06a9efb2f3c826ff7542c514f11b045e107"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah H.B. 31 (2017) — Utah Health Care Workforce Financial Assistance Program Reauthorization

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillint/HB0031.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/hbillenr/HB0031.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **29–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **62–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Redd, Edward H. — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-12** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-13** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2016-12-13** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2016-12-30** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-01-05** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-01-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-23** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2017-01-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-01-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-01-23** to Senate
- **2017-01-23** received from House
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-26** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-30** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-02-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-02** signed by President/returned to House
- **2017-02-02** to House
- **2017-02-03** received from Senate
- **2017-02-03** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2017-02-04** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2017-02-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-17** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-17** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-17** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-20** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1d24fd63-3f7c-4630-9a1b-657128b0bcf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).