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type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 226 Long-term Care Patient and Consumer Rights Protection"
description: "H.B. 226 Long-term Care Patient and Consumer Rights Protection"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 226"
citation: "Utah HB 226 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Department of Health", "Health", "Health Care", "Health Care Facilities", "Health Insurance", "Insurance", "Nursing Homes", "Skilled Nursing Facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballard, Melissa G."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 47
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/753645bc-e5c4-438f-b892-de61870affc0"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0226.html"
source_hash: "0fa01b9463ae860e589ee467a867919b1bd96ed2a1b3603b5f61bf9829df5567"
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 226 (2021) — H.B. 226 Long-term Care Patient and Consumer Rights Protection
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0226S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0226.pdf)
## Votes
- passed 2nd reading — **240** (pass) · upper
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **64** (pass) · lower
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation — **50** (pass) · lower
- concurs with Senate amendment — **700** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- passed 3rd reading — **270** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ballard, Melissa G. — primary (person)
- Harper, Wayne A. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-21** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-21** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-22** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-27** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-28** to House Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-03** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-04** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-04** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-11** floor amendment # 1
- **2021-02-11** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-11** to Senate
- **2021-02-11** received from House
- **2021-02-11** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-16** to Senate Health and Human Services Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-17** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-17** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2021-02-18** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-18** circled
- **2021-02-24** uncircled
- **2021-02-24** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-02-24** passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-25** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-02-25** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-02-25** to House with amendments
- **2021-02-25** received from Senate
- **2021-02-25** placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2021-02-26** circled
- **2021-02-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-02-26** fiscal note publicly available
- **2021-02-26** uncircled
- **2021-02-26** concurs with Senate amendment
- **2021-02-26** to Senate
- **2021-03-01** received from House
- **2021-03-01** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-03-01** to House
- **2021-03-01** received from Senate
- **2021-03-01** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-03-03** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-03-03** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-16** 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/753645bc-e5c4-438f-b892-de61870affc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).