2022 Legislative Summary
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- (2022) UT H 32
Author: Robert M. Spendlove (R-049)
Title: Health Care Worker Protection
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — LastAmend:01/26/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Enacts provisions relating to the assault of an owner, employee, or contractor of a health
facility.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 58
Author: Rosemary T. Lesser (D-010)
Title: Surgical Smoke Evacuation System Requirements
Introduced: 01/18/2022— Last Amend: 02/10/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Summary: Requires certain facilities to develop policies regarding surgical smoke evacuation; defines
terms; directs facilities that conduct surgeries that are likely to generate smoke to develop
policies to mitigate surgical smoke exposure; requires the Department of Health to ensure
compliance.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 63
Author: Jon Hawkins (R-057)
Title: Coronavirus In the Workplace
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Summary: Requires an employer to exempt an employee or a prospective employee from a
coronavirus vaccine requirement if the employee or prospective employee submits a
primary care provider's note stating that the employee or prospective employee was
previously infected by coronavirus; amends provisions related to recordkeeping; prohibits
an employer from keeping or maintaining a record or copy of an employee's coronavirus
test results, except as otherwise required by law.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 109
Author: Stephen Handy (R-016)
Title: Death Certificate Amendments
Introduced: 01/18/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Allows a health care professional to indicate that air pollution factored into an individual's
death on the individual's death certificate.
Status: Failed
01/18/2022 To HOUSE Committee on RULES.
- (2022) UT H 114
Author: Suzanne Harrison (D-032)
Title: School Nursing Services Amendments
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/16/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Amends provisions related to school nursing services; provides for multistate licenses and
for minimum staffing requirements.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 116
Author: Mike Winder (R-030)
Title: Medical Billing Amendments
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/01/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Summary: Limits when a health care provider may seek payment for a medical service or procedure
from an individual or a health benefit plan; prohibits a health care provider from seeking
payment for a medical service or procedure from an individual or health benefit plan under
certain circumstances.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 127
Author: Rex Shipp (R-072)
Title: Medical Practice Amendments
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Disposition: Pending
Location: House Health and Human Services Committee
Summary: Prohibits a physician or surgeon from performing a transgender procedure on a minor.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 167
Author: Brady Brammer (R-027)
Title: Mental Illness Psychotherapy Drug Task Force
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/03/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Creates the Mental Illness Psychotherapy Drug Task Force; requires the task force to study
and make recommendations on drugs that may assist in treating mental illness; sets a
repeal date for the task force; provides for membership and duties.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 176
Author: Norman K. Thurston (R-064)
Title: Utah Health Workforce Act
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/04/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Enacts provisions relating to the state health workforce; creates the Utah Health Workforce
Advisory Council; requires the council to provide information and recommendations to
government entities regarding policy decisions that affect the state health workforce;
creates the Utah Health Workforce Information Center; requires the information center to
conduct research and analyze data regarding the state health workforce; moves oversight
of the Utah Medical Education Council to the council.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 182
Author: Ryan Wilcox (R-007)
Title: State Facilities and the Capitol Hill Complex
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/15/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Excludes state facilities and the capitol hill complex from the authority and jurisdiction of a
local health department pertaining to an order of constraint; prohibits a chief executive
officer of a municipality from exercising emergency powers in response to a pandemic or an
epidemic; prohibits a chief executive officer or a municipality or county from vetoing an
action by the relevant local legislative body to terminate an order of constraint or a
declaration of a local emergency.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 195
Author: Suzanne Harrison (D-032)
Title: Auricular Detoxification Amendments
Introduced: 01/19/2022 — Last Amend: 02/08/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Allows certain health care providers to perform auricular detoxification.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 197
Author: Nelson Abbott (R-060)
Title: Income Tax Rate Modifications
Introduced: 01/19/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Amends the income tax rates.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 202
Author: Mark A. Wheatley (D-035)
Title: Employment Selection Procedures Act
Introduced: 01/20/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Amends the Employment Selection Procedures Act to prohibit an employer from inquiring
into an applicant's compensation history.
Status: Failed
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- (2022) UT H 212
Author: Jen Dailey-Provost (D-024)
Title: Health Care Coverage Amendments
Introduced: 01/20/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Amends the Medical Assistance Act.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 225
Author:
Title: Access To Medical Records
Introduced: 01/20/2022 — Last Amend: 02/10/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Creates a standard form to request health records; defines terms; requires a health care
provider and the health care provider contracted third party service provider to accept the
standard form.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 278
Author: Steven Eliason (R-045)
Title: Behavioral Health Treatment Access
Introduced: 01/27/2022 — Last Amend: 02/23/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Rules Committee
Summary: Addresses insurance coverage of behavioral health services.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 283
Author: Norman K. Thurston (R-064)
Title: Mental Health Professional Licensing
Introduced: 01/27/2022 — Last Amend: 02/14/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Amends the Mental Health Professional Licensing Act.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 295
Author: Cory Maloy (R-006)
Title: Physician Workforce
Introduced: 02/01/2022 — Last Amend: 02/16/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Creates grant programs to address the physician workforce.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 301
Author: Raymond Ward (R-019)
Title: Medication Dispenser Amendments
Introduced: 02/02/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Provides that a dispensing practitioner may dispense a drug at a licensed dispensing
practice if the drug meets specified requirements; provides that a dispensing practitioner
may not dispense specified drugs; provides that a dispensing practitioner may not make a
claim against workers compensation or automobile insurance for a drug dispensed for
outpatient use unless the dispensing practitioner is contracted with a pharmacy network
established by the claim payor.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 316
Author: Doug Welton (R-067)
Title: Medical Assistant Amendments
Introduced: 02/02/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary: Allows a medical assistant to administer vaccines.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 344
Author: Merrill Nelson (R-068)
Title: Medical Candor Act
Introduced: 02/02/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: SENATE
Summary:Provides that if a health care provider wishes to engage an affected party in the medical
candor process, the health care provider shall provide a written notice to the affected party
within 365 days after the day on which the health care provider knew of the adverse event
involving the patient, and provide a written notice, in a timely manner, to any other health
care provider involved in the adverse event that invites the health care provider to
participate in the medical candor process.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 384
Author: Suzanne Harrison (D-032)
Title: Anesthesia and Sedation Amendments
Introduced: 02/14/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Rules Committee
Summary: Amends and enacts provisions related to anesthesia and sedation.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 389
Author: Karianne Lisonbee (R-014)
Title: Nursing Education Program Amendments
Introduced: 02/14/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Rules Committee
Summary: Amends the provisions related to non accredited nursing education programs.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 400
Author: Stewart E. Barlow (R-017)
Title: Associate Physician Licenses
Introduced: 02/15/2022 — Last Amend: 02/24/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: HOUSE
Summary: Amends provisions relating to an associate physician license.
Status: Passed - House to Governor
- (2022) UT H 451
Author: Jen Dailey-Provost (D-024)
Title: Opioid Use Prevention and Treatment Amendments
Introduced: 02/22/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary:Enacts requirements for the use of funds deposited into the Opioid Litigation Settlement
Restricted Account.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 457
Author: Clare Collard (D-022)
Title: Consumer Data Privacy Amendments
Introduced: 02/22/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Amends provisions related to the protection of personal information.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT H 461
Author: Raymond Ward (R-019)
Title: Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injury Fund
Introduced: 02/22/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary:Combines the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund with the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury
Rehabilitation Fund.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT S 44
Author: Mike Kennedy (R-014)
Title: Clinical Mental Health Counselor Licensing
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/02/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary:Amends provisions relating to clinical mental health counselors and marriage and family
therapists.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 59
Author: Evan Vickers (R-028)
Title: Tax Provision Modifications
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/07/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: To Governor
Summary: Modifies income tax provisions; amends the corporate franchise and income tax rates;
amends the individual income tax rate; expands eligibility for the social security benefits tax
credit by increasing the threshold for the income based phaseout; enacts a state earned
income tax credit and provides for apportionment of that credit; provides for nonrefundable
earned income tax credit; defines federal earned income tax credit and qualified claimant;
provides for retrospective operation.
Status: Passed - Governor Signed.
- (2022) UT S 95
Author: Derrin R. Owens (R-024)
Title: Limitations on Employer Liability
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/17/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Concurrence
Summary: Addresses liability of an employer for negligently hiring an employee that has been
previously convicted of an offense; provides that a cause of action may not be brought
against an employer for negligently hiring an employee based solely on evidence that the
employee has been previously convicted in this state or in another jurisdiction of an offense;
provides that the protections provided to an employer do not apply in a cause of action
concerning the misuse of funds or property of a person.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 101
Author: Evan Vickers (R-028)
Title: Nurse Apprentice Licensing Act
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/02/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Creates a license for registered nurse apprentices.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 104
Author: Luz Escamilla (D-001)
Title: Community Health Worker Certification Process
Introduced: 01/18/2022 — Last Amend: 02/02/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Creates a state certification for community health workers; defines terms; creates a state
certification for community health workers; requires the Department of Health to administer
the certification.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 121
Author: Mike McKell (R-007)
Title: Anesthesiologist Assistant Licensing Act
Introduced: 01/20/2022 — Last Amend: 02/16/2022
Disposition: To Governor
Location: Eligible for Governor
Summary: Creates a license for anesthesiologist assistants; requires the Physicians Licensing Board
to regulate anesthesiologist assistants; establishes a license for anesthesiologist
assistants; establishes qualifications for licensure; establishes terms for the license.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 151
Author: Curtis S. Bramble (R-016)
Title: Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Compact
Introduced: 01/27/2022 — LastAmend: 02/15/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: HOUSE
Summary:Enacts provisions related to the nursing profession; enacts the Advanced Practice
Registered Nurse Compact; requires individuals to complete a background check to obtain
a license to be a nurse midwife as required by the compact; allows an individual licensed as
an advanced practice registered nurse to obtain licensure as a certified nurse anesthetist or
a nurse midwife; repeals the previously enacted compact related to advanced practice
registered nurses and associated provisions.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 189
Author: Todd Weiler (R-023)
Title: Drug Induced Homicide
Introduced: 02/02/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
Summary: Concerns the offense of drug induced homicide.
Status: Failed
- (2022) UT S 194
Author: Lincoln Fillmore (R-010)
Title: Medical Rationing Amendments
Introduced: 02/09/2022 — Last Amend: 02/17/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Health and Human Services Committee
Summary:Requires the Department of Health to make rules regarding the procedure that the
department must follow when adopting, modifying, requiring, facilitating, or recommending
criteria related to the rationing of scarce health care resources.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 195
Author: Luz Escamilla (D-001)
Title: Medical Cannabis Access
Introduced: 02/09/2022 — Last Amend: 02/22/2022
Disposition: Pending
Location: House Rules Committee
Summary: Amends provisions regarding patient access and medical professionals in relation to
medical cannabis; requires a hospice program to provide at least one qualified medical
provider; renames the Cannabinoid Product Board as the Cannabis Research Review
Board; requires physician members of the board to be qualified medical providers; adds
acute pain for which a medical professional may generally prescribe opioids as a qualifying
condition for a limited supply of medical cannabis; relates to advertisement.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor
- (2022) UT S 237
Author: Curtis S. Bramble (R-016)
Title: Counseling State Compact
Introduced: 02/22/2022 —
Disposition: Pending
Location: Senate Business and Labor Committee
Summary: Enacts the Counseling Compact.
Status: Passed - Senate to Governor