---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pharmacy Benefit Amendments"
description: "Pharmacy Benefit Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 257"
citation: "Utah HB 257 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care", "Health Insurance", "Health and Human Services", "Insurance", "Insurance Department", "Pharmaceuticals", "Pharmacy Benefit Managers", "Public Employees' Health Program"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T18:02:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T16:03:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b3486f5-0194-4889-abcb-637b335e1a28"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0257.html"
source_hash: "8dfca8b766534024ec80fd4139dd38611718e2953b3500e0d66f88495e0863bc"
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 257 (2025) — Pharmacy Benefit 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/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0257.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0257 To HB0257S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB257H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB257H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB257S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB257S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0257S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0257.xml)

## Sponsors

- Thurston, Norman K — primary (person)
- Vickers, Evan J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T18:02:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T18:02:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:51:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-22T17:13:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-03T19:04:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T23:33:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-05T23:35:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06T18:08:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-06T18:08:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-13T18:37:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-13T18:41:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-13T18:41:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-13T19:06:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-14T17:21:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T19:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T00:37:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T17:07:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T00:57:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T01:01:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-07T01:01:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-07T01:01:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T22:09:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T22:09:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T15:17:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T15:17:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:02:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:02:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T16:03:00+00:00** 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/8b3486f5-0194-4889-abcb-637b335e1a28`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).