---
type: "Bill"
title: "Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Personnel Insurance Program Amendments"
description: "Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Personnel Insurance Program Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 298"
citation: "Utah HB 298 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Medical Services", "Health Care Professionals", "Health and Human Services", "Independent Entities", "Public Employees' Health Program", "Utah Retirement Systems (URS)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Welton, Douglas R."]
version_count: 9
action_count: 38
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-22T20:53:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T00:42:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12b2e411-bbbd-47be-8a63-02c4515e153e"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0298.html"
source_hash: "fca67a061662a0ed10db1073bdffa3de60be14eaa299d12784f2bd98b3f18441"
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 298 (2025) — Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Personnel Insurance Program 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/HB0298.xml)
2. **Amended 2/21/2025 10:02:26** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0298_2025-02-21_10-01-58.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/21/2025 10:02:26** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0298_2025-02-21_10-01-58.pdf)
4. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0298.Hamd.1.pdf)
5. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB298H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB298H10.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB298S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB298S10.pdf)
9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0298.xml)

## Sponsors

- Welton, Douglas R. — primary (person)
- McKell, Michael K. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22T20:53:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-22T20:53:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-23T17:14:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-23T18:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T17:15:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-12T19:00:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T23:39:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-20T23:40:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:16:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-21T17:16:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-25T22:37:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T22:37:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-26T22:05:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T22:07:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-26T22:07:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-26T23:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T17:38:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T21:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T00:17:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04T16:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T21:46:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T22:18:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T22:19:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-03-05T22:57:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-03-05T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-05T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T03:24:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T03:24:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:07:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T15:07:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-07T17:33:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07T17:33:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T18:55:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T18:55:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T00:42:00+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/12b2e411-bbbd-47be-8a63-02c4515e153e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).