---
type: "Bill"
title: "Medical Examiner Amendments"
description: "Medical Examiner Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 493"
citation: "Utah HB 493 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Department of Health and Human Services", "Funeral and Death Care Services", "Health Care", "Health and Human Services", "Medical Records"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ward, Raymond P."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T21:09:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:40:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0ab1613-c64b-44e5-a276-2d5362ba7737"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0493.html"
source_hash: "b346bc9f7f65ca305d2206d5d5fb4baef7040da3cf8d6a85fc61e5b7be0bf8f6"
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 493 (2025) — Medical Examiner 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/HB0493.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0493 To HB0493S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB493H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB493H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB493S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB493S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0493S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0493.xml)

## Sponsors

- Ward, Raymond P. — primary (person)
- Stratton, Keven J. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T21:09:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-12T21:09:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-13T16:14:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T17:30:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T16:15:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T18:14:00+00:00** Bill Substituted by Sponsor in House Rules Comm
- **2025-02-19T18:37:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T23:22:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T17:24:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26T17:24:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-28T18:05:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-28T18:10:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-28T18:10:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-28T19:50:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T21:42:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-28T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T21:41:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T21:47:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-06T22:59:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T23:02:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-06T23:02:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06T23:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T23:27:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T23:27:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T23:42:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-12T18:24:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-12T18:24:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:44:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:40:00+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/a0ab1613-c64b-44e5-a276-2d5362ba7737`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).