---
type: "Bill"
title: "Massage Therapy Amendments"
description: "Massage Therapy Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 278"
citation: "Utah HB 278 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Commerce and Trade", "Consumer Protection", "Crimes", "Health Care Professionals", "Health and Human Services", "Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Massage Therapists", "Occupational and Professional Licensing", "Sexual Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thurston, Norman K"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 44
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-20T20:13:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T00:40:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b42010a7-d300-4623-8f39-cd1d1cb04b78"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0278.html"
source_hash: "18347aba06ff00208c4fefa11027966a2fd3d04c690b94719b0a8bc41fd16b2f"
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 278 (2025) — Massage Therapy 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/HB0278.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0278 To HB0278S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0278S01 To HB0278S02.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0278S02 To HB0278S03.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0278S03 To HB0278S04.pdf)
6. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB278H10.pdf)
7. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB278H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB278H20.pdf)
9. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB278S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB278S10.pdf)
11. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB278S20.pdf)
12. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0278S01.xml)
13. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0278S02.xml)
14. **Substitute #3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0278S03.xml)
15. **Substitute #4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0278S04.xml)
16. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0278.xml)

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T20:13:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:13:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:52:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-24T17:07:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-31T19:28:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T22:25:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-13T22:28:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-14T17:09:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-14T17:09:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21T18:04:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-21T18:08:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-21T18:08:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-21T19:12:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T21:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-25T22:41:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T16:45:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-28T16:53:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Motion to Recommend Failed `failure`
- **2025-03-04T01:27:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-04T01:29:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T02:58:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T02:58:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-05T03:20:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-05T03:21:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-03-05T03:24:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T03:24:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:49:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:49:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T15:44:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T17:30:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T17:30:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T15:53:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T15:53:00+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`
- **2025-03-26T00:40:00+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/b42010a7-d300-4623-8f39-cd1d1cb04b78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).