---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 223 Utah Health Care Malpractice Act Amendments"
description: "S.B. 223 Utah Health Care Malpractice Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 223"
citation: "Utah S.B. 223 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care", "Health Care Providers", "Medical Malpractice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hemmert, Daniel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c59cffc-9eb7-4a4c-ac96-0d408c9c1935"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0223.html"
source_hash: "adb3cf484fa601d6c8234d6e660b0f033ae12da4354973bc6e427e5c9044b008"
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. 223 (2018) — S.B. 223 Utah Health Care Malpractice 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/~2018/bills/sbillint/SB0223S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0223.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **66–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **3–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hemmert, Daniel — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Michael S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-22** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-02-22** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-02-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-02-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-23** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-02-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-02-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-02-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-02** to House
- **2018-03-02** received from Senate
- **2018-03-02** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-02** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** House Comm - Returned to Rules
- **2018-03-06** comm rpt/sent to Rules
- **2018-03-07** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-07** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-03-07** to Senate
- **2018-03-07** received from House
- **2018-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-14** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-03-14** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-22** 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/4c59cffc-9eb7-4a4c-ac96-0d408c9c1935`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).