---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Benefits Recovery Amendments"
description: "Medical Benefits Recovery Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 241"
citation: "Utah S.B. 241 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Trusts", "Health", "Department of Health", "Health Care", "Uniform Probate Code", "Wills", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hemmert, Daniel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f391ffcf-0b7f-4549-bc20-912170ded30e"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0241.html"
source_hash: "b38c0fb3d0c4b016a72a87e922846bea72b6062f30c790f3cf1f8515f2d6af53"
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. 241 (2018) — Medical Benefits Recovery 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/SB0241.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0241.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **66–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-02-28** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-02-28** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2018-02-28** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-02-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-28** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-04** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-03-05** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-03-05** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2018-03-05** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-05** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-05** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-05** to House
- **2018-03-05** received from Senate
- **2018-03-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-06** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-06** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-03-06** to Senate
- **2018-03-07** received from House
- **2018-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-08** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-03-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2018-03-15** 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/f391ffcf-0b7f-4549-bc20-912170ded30e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).