---
type: "Bill"
title: "Hospital Lien Law Amendments"
description: "Hospital Lien Law Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "S.B. 51"
citation: "Utah S.B. 51 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Liens", "Health Care"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hillyard, Lyle W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11938611-ebae-4d9d-bbca-e09a8ab78bad"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/static/SB0051.html"
source_hash: "7fa5fae0db444e5853b1b11aeb589b3fc94c8be5aebc99bcb8a32306ec6832fd"
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. 51 (2019) — Hospital Lien Law 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/sbillint/SB0051.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/sbillenr/SB0051.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hillyard, Lyle W. — primary (person)
- Johnson, Dan N. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-07** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2019-01-07** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2019-01-07** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2019-01-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2019-01-25** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2019-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** to Senate Business and Labor Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-01-30** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2019-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-01-31** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-01** to House
- **2019-02-01** received from Senate
- **2019-02-04** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** to House Judiciary Committee `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-07** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2019-02-07** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2019-02-07** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2019-02-07** to Senate
- **2019-02-08** received from House
- **2019-02-08** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2019-02-11** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2019-02-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2019-03-22** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2019-03-22** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2019-03-25** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2019-03-25** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** 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/11938611-ebae-4d9d-bbca-e09a8ab78bad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).