---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 246 Pharmacy Practice Act Amendments"
description: "S.B. 246 Pharmacy Practice Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 246"
citation: "Utah S.B. 246 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Occupational and Professional Licensing", "Pharmacies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-02-20"
last_action: "2017-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd05f6f4-38e8-44fe-bc00-f4a446bfa8d6"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0246.html"
source_hash: "9b57a41f424012673dba65938b2fb51e94f88e898ad7bc35a2cd5ba19afac196"
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 S.B. 246 (2017) — S.B. 246 Pharmacy Practice Act Amendments

## 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/sbillint/SB0246S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillamd/SB0246S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0246.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2 — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **69–1** (pass) · legislature
- concurs with House amendment — **28–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Ray, Paul — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2017-02-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-02-21** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2017-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-21** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-22** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-02-22** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2017-02-22** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2017-02-22** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2017-02-22** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-22** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2017-02-23** comm rpt/substitute/amended/Consent Cal
- **2017-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-24** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2017-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-28** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-28** to House
- **2017-02-28** received from Senate
- **2017-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-28** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-02** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 2
- **2017-03-02** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-03** comm rpt/amended
- **2017-03-03** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-03-07** to Senate
- **2017-03-07** received from House
- **2017-03-07** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2017-03-07** concurs with House amendment
- **2017-03-07** to House
- **2017-03-07** received from Senate
- **2017-03-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-03-07** to Senate
- **2017-03-07** received from House
- **2017-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-03-07** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-17** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-17** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-20** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-24** 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/bd05f6f4-38e8-44fe-bc00-f4a446bfa8d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).