---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regulations for Legal Services"
description: "Regulations for Legal Services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 202"
citation: "Utah SB 202 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorneys", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-05"
last_action: "2024-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1cdbe41-9501-45f6-bc64-57957f3c700d"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0202.html"
source_hash: "13c28e46ae79615215164b527127738bb75bb4f1b6204a4d02dda9f23bdb6257"
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 202 (2024) — Regulations for Legal Services

## 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/sbillint/SB0202.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/sbillenr/SB0202.pdf)

## Votes

- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 2nd reading — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **70–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-05** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-02-05** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-02-05** bill sent to agencies for fiscal input
- **2024-02-05** received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2024-02-06** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** to Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- **2024-02-07** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2024-02-08** fiscal note publicly available
- **2024-02-08** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2024-02-09** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-09** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2024-02-12** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-12** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-13** to House
- **2024-02-13** received from Senate `receipt`
- **2024-02-13** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** to House Judiciary Committee
- **2024-02-23** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-02-23** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2024-02-29** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate `passage`
- **2024-02-29** to Senate
- **2024-03-01** received from House `receipt`
- **2024-03-01** signed by President/sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2024-03-01** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2024-03-01** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2024-03-07** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2024-03-07** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2024-03-12** received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2024-03-12** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-13** 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/a1cdbe41-9501-45f6-bc64-57957f3c700d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).