---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Decisions Act Amendments"
description: "Health Care Decisions Act Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 134"
citation: "Utah SB 134 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advance Health Care Directive", "Health Care", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Care Professionals", "Health Facility Administrators", "Health and Human Services", "Judicial Operations", "Medical Records", "Mental Health", "Power of Attorney", "Probate"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKell, Michael K."]
version_count: 15
action_count: 48
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-16T22:22:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:24:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b7cd9ef-835a-4d07-82e3-1eb6fdd109d4"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0134.html"
source_hash: "3ed0be595971280f9f6e84357908bfbee7ba090484eb467fd1d06e3bb85d94c2"
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 134 (2025) — Health Care Decisions Act 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/SB0134.xml)
2. **Amended 1/28/2025 09:01:849** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0134_2025-01-28_09-07-07.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 1/28/2025 09:01:849** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0134_2025-01-28_09-07-07.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0134 To SB0134S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0134S01 To SB0134S02.pdf)
6. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB134H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB134H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB134H20.pdf)
9. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0134.Samd.1.pdf)
10. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB134S10.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB134S10.pdf)
12. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB134S20.pdf)
13. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0134S01.xml)
14. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0134S02.xml)
15. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0134.xml)

## Sponsors

- McKell, Michael K. — primary (person)
- Teuscher, Jordan D. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-16T22:22:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-16T22:22:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:54:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-22T17:49:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-23T18:19:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27T21:29:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-01-27T21:30:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-28T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-01-28T18:20:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-04T21:31:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-04T21:31:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-06T22:13:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-06T22:14:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-06T22:15:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-07T18:41:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-07T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-07T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-07T20:46:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-07T21:11:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T19:31:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T21:34:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T21:35:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:15:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-14T17:15:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-02-20T18:31:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-20T18:31:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-26T18:05:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-26T18:05:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-26T18:30:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T18:33:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T18:33:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T21:55:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T21:55:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-02-27T17:54:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-27T17:54:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:07:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-28T01:11:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T01:11:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-03T14:39:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-03T14:39:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-05T02:42:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-05T02:42:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T14:59:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T14:59:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:24:00+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/5b7cd9ef-835a-4d07-82e3-1eb6fdd109d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).