---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Consumer Protection Act"
description: "Health Care Consumer Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 202"
citation: "Utah HB 202 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Commerce and Trade", "Consumer Protection", "Health", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Care Professionals", "Health Insurance", "Hospitals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af455a96-4086-4378-b96d-9822eca3d94e"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0202.html"
source_hash: "784ec010fa6099b26e54267d9a50a9e71c8c19dda9c1972430044d5ce1a7df8d"
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 HB 202 (2021) — Health Care Consumer Protection Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0202.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0202.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thurston, Norman K. — primary (person)
- Cullimore, Kirk A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-19** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2021-01-19** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-01-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-22** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-26** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-02** to Senate
- **2021-02-03** received from House
- **2021-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-04** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-08** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-08** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-11** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-12** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-12** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-12** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-02-12** to House
- **2021-02-12** received from Senate
- **2021-02-12** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-17** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-02-17** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** 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/af455a96-4086-4378-b96d-9822eca3d94e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).