---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nurse Licensure Compact"
description: "Nurse Licensure Compact"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2017"
identifier: "S.B. 48"
citation: "Utah S.B. 48 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care", "Health Care Providers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-12-20"
last_action: "2017-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b142783-743c-44ba-beb4-9991927c78ee"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/static/SB0048.html"
source_hash: "6b96fc9f5a2c0f806571292c7a6bce2179f5aa945262e535d34ac8e6da2de9c6"
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. 48 (2017) — Nurse Licensure Compact

## 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/SB0048.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2017/bills/sbillenr/SB0048.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **72–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Ward, Raymond P. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-20** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2016-12-20** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2016-12-20** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2017-01-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2017-01-03** fiscal note publicly available
- **2017-01-11** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2017-01-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-26** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-01-26** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2017-01-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** circled
- **2017-01-27** uncircled
- **2017-01-27** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-01-30** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-01-30** to House
- **2017-01-30** received from Senate
- **2017-01-31** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-01** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-16** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2017-02-16** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2017-02-16** to Senate
- **2017-02-17** received from House
- **2017-02-17** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2017-02-17** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2017-02-17** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2017-03-14** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2017-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2017-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2017-03-15** 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/2b142783-743c-44ba-beb4-9991927c78ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).