---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 73 Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program Amendments"
description: "S.B. 73 Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 73"
citation: "Utah S.B. 73 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Health", "Retirement", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hemmert, Daniel"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-05"
last_action: "2018-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6e97ae5-a63f-4ec7-bfcc-2801e70528f1"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0073.html"
source_hash: "d802755b251b226b027973a76c637a8deb712281b67cd57ffb3c744406a912aa"
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. 73 (2018) — S.B. 73 Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program 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/SB0073S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0073.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · legislature
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **3–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hemmert, Daniel — primary (person)
- McCay, Daniel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-05** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-05** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-16** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-01-22** to Senate Retirement and Independent Entities Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-01-31** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-01** comm rpt/substituted
- **2018-02-01** fiscal note publicly available
- **2018-02-01** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-16** circled
- **2018-02-16** uncircled
- **2018-02-16** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-02-20** to House
- **2018-02-20** received from Senate
- **2018-02-20** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-21** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** circled
- **2018-03-07** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2018-03-08** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-08** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-08** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-08** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-03-08** to Senate
- **2018-03-08** received from House
- **2018-03-08** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-13** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-03-13** 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`
- **2018-03-16** 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/e6e97ae5-a63f-4ec7-bfcc-2801e70528f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).