---
type: "Bill"
title: "Acupuncturist Liability Amendments"
description: "Acupuncturist Liability Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 23"
citation: "Utah SB 23 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Acupuncturists", "Health", "Health Care Professionals", "Judicial Operations", "Liability"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Escamilla, Luz"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32ac6393-ac95-483f-bf19-f36e124ec8f0"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/SB0023.html"
source_hash: "f85f73fe06e83d031f66f6349f1da9d8cef6536e5f529f6be7913c4589d75519"
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 23 (2022) — Acupuncturist Liability 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/~2022/bills/sbillint/SB0023.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillamd/SB0023.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillenr/SB0023.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1 — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with House amendment — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Escamilla, Luz — primary (person)
- Spendlove, Robert M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-12-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-12-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-12-14** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2022-01-10** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-18** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-01-18** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-01-18** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-01-18** to House
- **2022-01-20** received from Senate
- **2022-01-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-24** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation # 1
- **2022-01-25** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-26** comm rpt/amended
- **2022-01-26** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-02** to Senate
- **2022-02-02** received from House
- **2022-02-02** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2022-02-03** concurs with House amendment
- **2022-02-03** to House
- **2022-02-03** received from Senate
- **2022-02-03** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2022-02-03** to Senate
- **2022-02-04** received from House
- **2022-02-04** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-15** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2022-02-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2022-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-23** 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/32ac6393-ac95-483f-bf19-f36e124ec8f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).