republic-os/legislation/us/states/ut/2025/sb-44.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional Licensure Amendments"
description: "Professional Licensure Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 44"
citation: "Utah SB 44 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Background Checks", "Business", "Occupational and Professional Licensing", "Office of Licensing and Background Checks"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vickers, Evan J."]
version_count: 10
action_count: 42
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-12-27T17:38:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:27:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7516fb92-5194-4597-880b-9356c92e240b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0044.html"
source_hash: "400c7280dc956cb982624601f690304b4b7c270be734a7b8ea8594490da35899"
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 44 (2025) — Professional Licensure 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/SB0044.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0044 To SB0044S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB044H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB044H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB044H20.pdf)
6. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB044S10.pdf)
7. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB044S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB044S20.pdf)
9. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0044S01.xml)
10. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0044.xml)

## Sponsors

- Vickers, Evan J. — primary (person)
- Maloy, A. Cory — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-27T17:38:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2024-12-27T17:38:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-02T17:03:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T15:18:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T18:14:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-21T18:40:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22T22:09:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-01-23T18:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-01-23T18:45:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-01-23T18:49:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T18:40:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-01-24T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-01-24T18:43:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-01-27T17:00:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-01-27T18:09:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-04T18:54:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T23:56:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-05T23:57:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-06T18:09:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-06T18:09:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-02-13T18:53:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-13T18:53:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-19T18:49:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-19T18:52:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-19T18:52:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-19T21:14:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-19T21:14:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-02-20T17:35:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20T17:35:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-20T21:10:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-20T21:10:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-02-20T21:10:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-21T17:17:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T17:17:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-02-24T18:05:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-02-24T18:05:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-02-28T02:19:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-02-28T02:20:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T20:42:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T20:42:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:27:00+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/7516fb92-5194-4597-880b-9356c92e240b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).