---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 44 Mental Health Professional Practice Act Amendments"
description: "S.B. 44 Mental Health Professional Practice Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 44"
citation: "Utah SB 44 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Department of Commerce", "Health", "Health Care", "Health Care Professionals", "Mental Health", "Mental Health Professionals", "Occupational and Professional Licensing", "Substance Abuse and Mental Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kennedy, Michael S."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-12-14"
last_action: "2022-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2030df7d-443e-4ebd-b4f0-d8ec333d24e4"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/SB0044.html"
source_hash: "6263488a7f2c8a837e588f75e95426241c37bf1f15157fe7f0e404d5c5a71cbc"
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 44 (2022) — S.B. 44 Mental Health Professional Practice Act 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/SB0044S01.pdf)
2. **Amended** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillamd/SB0044S01.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillenr/SB0044.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- concurs with House amendment — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kennedy, Michael S. — primary (person)
- Nelson, Merrill F. — 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
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-18** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-01-19** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-19** circled
- **2022-01-20** uncircled
- **2022-01-20** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-01-20** circled
- **2022-01-21** uncircled
- **2022-01-21** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-01-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-01-24** floor amendment # 1
- **2022-01-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-01-24** to House
- **2022-01-24** fiscal note publicly available
- **2022-01-25** received from Senate
- **2022-01-25** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-01-26** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-31** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-31** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-02-02** floor amendment # 2
- **2022-02-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-02-02** to Senate
- **2022-02-03** received from House
- **2022-02-03** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2022-02-04** concurs with House amendment
- **2022-02-04** to House
- **2022-02-04** received from Senate
- **2022-02-04** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2022-02-04** to Senate
- **2022-02-08** received from House
- **2022-02-08** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2022-02-16** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2022-02-16** 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`
- **2022-03-24** 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/2030df7d-443e-4ebd-b4f0-d8ec333d24e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).