---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 237 Dental Hygienist Amendments"
description: "S.B. 237 Dental Hygienist Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "Utah SB 237 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dentists and Dental Hygienists", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-03-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24ab90fe-8357-4e29-b3ed-b61e389d3674"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0237.html"
source_hash: "3a65f5d0f91f9456f9ea993090c0df66326b2563d9b130ce596ddecf003351b5"
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 237 (2023) — S.B. 237 Dental Hygienist 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/sbillint/SB0237S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0237.pdf)

## Votes

- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Hawkins, Jon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-14** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-14** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-15** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- **2023-02-17** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2023-02-21** comm rpt/substituted
- **2023-02-21** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-21** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-21** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-22** to House
- **2023-02-23** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-23** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** to House Business and Labor Committee
- **2023-02-24** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-28** 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-01** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-01** to Senate
- **2023-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-02** 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/24ab90fe-8357-4e29-b3ed-b61e389d3674`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).