---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 427 Access to Protected Health Information"
description: "H.B. 427 Access to Protected Health Information"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 427"
citation: "Utah HB 427 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Health Care Data and Informatics", "Health and Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dunnigan, James A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-03-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2db6f90-6861-4c0d-bad2-247a6b0c3cf7"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0427.html"
source_hash: "93eaea7db42c7128112187f4efaaf6bd263c3434863df6a6d97fcf01f6c66c7e"
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 427 (2024) — H.B. 427 Access to Protected Health Information

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillint/HB0427S02.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/hbillenr/HB0427.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1 — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dunnigan, James A. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-01-29** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-01-30** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-01-30** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-02** to House Political Subdivisions Committee
- **2024-02-08** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation from # 0 to # 1
- **2024-02-09** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-12** comm rpt/substituted
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** circled
- **2024-02-21** uncircled
- **2024-02-21** substituted from # 1 to # 2 `substitution`
- **2024-02-21** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-21** to Senate
- **2024-02-21** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-02-21** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** to Senate Business and Labor Committee
- **2024-02-22** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-22** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-26** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-26** Senate Comm - Consent Calendar Recommendation
- **2024-02-27** comm rpt/placed on Consent Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-01** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-03-01** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/returned to House `passage`
- **2024-03-01** to House
- **2024-03-01** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-11** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-11** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-14** 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/d2db6f90-6861-4c0d-bad2-247a6b0c3cf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).