---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 73 Medical Payment Rates Amendments"
description: "H.B. 73 Medical Payment Rates Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "H.B. 73"
citation: "Utah H.B. 73 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Health", "Health", "Health Care", "Health Care Providers", "Human Services", "Medicaid", "Disabilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/416f865e-c806-4c55-8e8f-bd90f6376806"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/HB0073.html"
source_hash: "29539dbbefe03bbaedf21a62277f10164367b9a84ca8090845f88c13436d6ab1"
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 H.B. 73 (2019) — H.B. 73 Medical Payment Rates 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/~2019/bills/hbillint/HB0073S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0073.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-09** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-01-28** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2019-01-31** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2019-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-04** to Senate
- **2019-02-05** received from House
- **2019-02-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2019-02-14** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-15** to House with amendments
- **2019-02-15** received from Senate
- **2019-02-15** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2019-02-18** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2019-02-20** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2019-02-20** to Senate
- **2019-02-21** received from House
- **2019-02-21** signed by President/returned to House
- **2019-02-21** to House
- **2019-02-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-21** received from Senate
- **2019-02-21** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2019-02-22** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2019-02-22** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-21** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-21** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** 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/416f865e-c806-4c55-8e8f-bd90f6376806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).