---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certified Public Accountant Licensing Amendments"
description: "Certified Public Accountant Licensing Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 15"
citation: "Utah SB 15 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Occupational and Professional Licensing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 13
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-16T22:49:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T01:21:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa91c208-d992-4c18-92eb-0783fb96d74b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0015.html"
source_hash: "68a4dd851891d452df713fda861bae1dd3967c04dcd60e9e059d2cc2bd3cb15a"
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 15 (2025) — Certified Public Accountant Licensing 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/SB0015.xml)
2. **Amended 3/5/2025 20:03:192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_SB0015S01_2025-03-05_20-48-44.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 3/5/2025 20:03:192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_SB0015S01_2025-03-05_20-48-44.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0015 To SB0015S01.pdf)
5. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0015S01.Hamd.1.pdf)
6. **House Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/SB0015S01.Hamd.2.pdf)
7. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB015H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB015H10.pdf)
9. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB015H20.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB015S10.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB015S20.pdf)
12. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0015S01.xml)
13. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0015.xml)

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Eliason, Steve — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-16T22:49:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-12-16T22:49:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2024-12-18T22:20:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-16T17:26:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-01-21T22:14:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-01-21T22:18:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-01-21T22:18:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-01-22T17:40:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-01-22T18:11:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-05T18:59:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T00:33:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-26T00:34:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T17:17:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-26T17:17:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-27T17:50:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-27T17:50:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-03-06T01:32:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-03-06T01:33:00+00:00** House/ floor amendment
- **2025-03-06T01:41:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-06T01:41:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T17:05:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T17:05:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-06T21:16:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-06T21:16:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-06T22:49:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T15:30:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:18:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T21:18:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T19:12:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T19:12:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T14:24:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T14:24:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T01:21:00+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/aa91c208-d992-4c18-92eb-0783fb96d74b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).