---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 315 Recreational Therapy Medicaid Coverage Amendments"
description: "H.B. 315 Recreational Therapy Medicaid Coverage Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 315"
citation: "Utah HB 315 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Health and Human Services", "Health", "Health Care Professionals", "Health Insurance", "Human Services", "Medicaid"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnigan, James A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-27"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce0f195-c4c6-4971-b6ea-c986ef1b0080"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0315.html"
source_hash: "af3039fe728ea190bc84421d1c315bea14497c3aaffddd65301ff33278705c7b"
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 315 (2023) — H.B. 315 Recreational Therapy Medicaid Coverage 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/~2023/bills/hbillint/HB0315S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0315.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **4–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **60–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dunnigan, James A. — primary (person)
- Bramble, Curtis S. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-01-27** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-02** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-06** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-06** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-07** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-07** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-08** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-08** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-09** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-09** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-09** to Senate
- **2023-02-10** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-10** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** to Senate Health and Human Services 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
- **2023-02-22** uncircled
- **2023-02-22** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-23** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-23** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-23** to House
- **2023-02-23** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-23** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-25** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2023-03-09** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2023-03-09** 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/4ce0f195-c4c6-4971-b6ea-c986ef1b0080`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).