---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational and Professional Licensure"
description: "Occupational and Professional Licensure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "S.B. 158"
citation: "Utah S.B. 158 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Occupations and Professions", "Occupational and Professional Licensing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bdf6bb8-7326-48c3-ad33-17c2dc0c4366"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/SB0158.html"
source_hash: "dbb95627e2bef392bdb00da822fe67cb21b5dbd529d1f8d6c9bd7b9e821f60f1"
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. 158 (2019) — Occupational and Professional Licensure

## 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/sbillint/SB0158.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/sbillenr/SB0158.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd reading — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Thurston, Norman K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-02-12** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-02-12** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-02-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2019-02-12** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-02-15** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2019-02-19** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-02-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-27** to House
- **2019-02-27** received from Senate
- **2019-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-28** to House Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-04** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2019-03-05** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2019-03-05** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** circled
- **2019-03-07** uncircled
- **2019-03-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-03-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2019-03-07** to Senate
- **2019-03-07** received from House
- **2019-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2019-03-08** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2019-03-08** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-20** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-20** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-20** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-20** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** 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/1bdf6bb8-7326-48c3-ad33-17c2dc0c4366`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).