---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 109 Emergency Services Amendments"
description: "S.B. 109 Emergency Services Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 109"
citation: "Utah SB 109 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Background Checks", "Department of Health", "Emergency Management", "Emergency Medical Services and Preparedness", "Facility Licensing", "Certification", "and Resident Assessment", "Fire Protection", "Health", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harper, Wayne A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39ac4344-b915-4851-8bc5-049f0a6a1f04"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/SB0109.html"
source_hash: "94e0f735c86d23ace9691e5929fed0414b8c6614324c60252bb4f99dc0f6b9a1"
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 SB 109 (2021) — S.B. 109 Emergency Services Amendments

## 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/sbillint/SB0109S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/sbillenr/SB0109.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **69–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Harper, Wayne A. — primary (person)
- Handy, Stephen G. — 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** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-19** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** to Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-25** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-26** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-01-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-01-27** comm rpt/substituted
- **2021-01-27** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-01-27** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-28** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** circled
- **2021-02-02** uncircled
- **2021-02-02** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-03** to House
- **2021-02-03** received from Senate
- **2021-02-03** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-10** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-16** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-17** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2021-02-17** to Senate
- **2021-02-17** received from House
- **2021-02-17** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2021-02-23** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-12** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-12** 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/39ac4344-b915-4851-8bc5-049f0a6a1f04`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).