---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 70 Continuing Care Retirement Facilities Amendments"
description: "H.B. 70 Continuing Care Retirement Facilities Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Utah HB 70 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance Department", "Nursing Homes", "Political Subdivisions (Local Issues)", "Public Retirement and Insurance", "Skilled Nursing Facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnigan, James A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-12-21"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6acb145-8b4d-4747-90ed-fb02c25a3fd0"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/HB0070.html"
source_hash: "698973aa15d41bd33d08ea0fcae7c6c370c1be8e93a2f76ee603c5cad7b04435"
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 70 (2023) — H.B. 70 Continuing Care Retirement Facilities 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/HB0070S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/hbillenr/HB0070.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **25–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dunnigan, James A. — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-12-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-12-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-01-04** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-01-17** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-01-17** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-01-19** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2023-02-08** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-08** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-08** House Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-02-09** comm rpt/substituted/Consent Calendar
- **2023-02-09** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-10** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-12** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-13** to Senate
- **2023-02-13** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2023-02-21** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2023-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-24** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2023-02-24** to House
- **2023-02-24** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-24** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-02-26** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2023-02-26** 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/e6acb145-8b4d-4747-90ed-fb02c25a3fd0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).