---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 159 Health Care Professional Licensing Requirements"
description: "H.B. 159 Health Care Professional Licensing Requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 159"
citation: "Utah HB 159 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care Professionals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-12-30"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/149ee64e-4939-4378-8aaf-c427af630bdf"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0159.html"
source_hash: "6969e905086ea64653f896e5145ef531ce6364eeb5dc9aa676ae2a15ad920e36"
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 159 (2023) — H.B. 159 Health Care Professional Licensing Requirements

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0159S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0159.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **21–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Held — **10–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thurston, Norman K — primary (person)
- Anderegg, Jacob L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-30** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-30** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-11** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-23** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-01-27** House Comm - Held
- **2023-02-01** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-01** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-02** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-03** to Senate
- **2023-02-06** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-06** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-06** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-06** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-15** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-16** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-16** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** circled
- **2023-02-16** uncircled
- **2023-02-16** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-17** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-17** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-17** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-17** to House
- **2023-02-17** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-17** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-21** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-21** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-10** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-10** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2023-03-13** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2023-03-13** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-15** 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/149ee64e-4939-4378-8aaf-c427af630bdf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).