---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Malpractice Amendments"
description: "Medical Malpractice Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 247"
citation: "Utah SB 247 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Health", "Health Care", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Medical Malpractice", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-15"
last_action: "2023-03-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddb2e834-8441-4703-9825-482e3685fe2d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0247.html"
source_hash: "b86716bb70f56f48ecb374f5bdc07ed997d6d551569364bc635c328e11a19efb"
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 247 (2023) — Medical Malpractice 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/SB0247.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/sbillenr/SB0247.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **2–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–3** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Abbott, Nelson T. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-15** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2023-02-15** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2023-02-15** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2023-02-16** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2023-02-16** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-16** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-02-20** fiscal note publicly available
- **2023-02-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2023-02-21** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-22** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2023-02-24** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-27** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-02-27** to House
- **2023-02-27** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2023-02-27** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-27** to House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2023-02-28** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-28** return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2023-03-01** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2023-03-01** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2023-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2023-03-02** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-02** to Senate
- **2023-03-02** received from House `receipt`
- **2023-03-02** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2023-03-03** 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`
- **2023-03-23** 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/ddb2e834-8441-4703-9825-482e3685fe2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).