All Roll Calls
Yes: 147 • No: 0
UtahH.B. 4172026 General SessionHouseWALLET
Patient Interfacility Transportation Requirements
Sponsored By: Sahara Hayes (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Health InsuranceHealth and Human ServicesHealth CareHealth Care FacilitiesHealth Care ProfessionalsDepartment of Public SafetyEmergency Medical Services
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Patients gain nonmedical transfer options
Beginning May 6, 2026, Utah facilities must let eligible patients travel between health facilities without an ambulance. These rides provide no medical services or trained medical staff and include family rides or public transit. Patients can ask the facility or provider to check their eligibility. Patients cannot be under temporary or involuntary commitment. Their originating provider must find no condition covered by Utah Code 53-2d-405 and no medical or mental need for an ambulance. The transfer must also follow federal emergency care law. Facilities must give eligible patients written notice that an ambulance is not medically necessary, insurance may deny coverage, and patients may owe the charges. The notice must list current state-established transportation and mileage rates. The law does not say who pays for nonmedical rides and preserves patients' right to refuse care, including transportation.
Timely transfers protect patients' beds and bills
Beginning May 6, 2026, patients using eligible nonmedical transfers get bed and billing protections when they arrive on time. The limit is four hours when the originating facility is in a fourth-, fifth-, or sixth-class Utah county. It is two hours for all other originating facilities. The receiving facility cannot charge patients or their health plans for admission or readmission unless staff have reason to believe the patient's medical condition changed since discharge. It also cannot give another person the bed offered to the patient at discharge.
Patients face limits on transport lawsuits
Beginning May 6, 2026, originating facilities and providers are protected from civil lawsuits for acts or omissions when allowing nonmedical transfers. This protection applies only when the patient's medical or mental condition at discharge did not require an ambulance. It limits patients' ability to bring civil claims over those qualifying acts or omissions.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Sahara Hayes
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Keith Grover
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/27/2026
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 25 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/26/2026
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 23 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/24/2026
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
House vote • 2/17/2026
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 2/17/2026
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 71 • No: 0
House vote • 2/4/2026
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 12 • No: 0
House vote • 2/4/2026
House Comm - Amendment Recommendation
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/18/2026House/ to Governor
3/11/2026HouseHouse/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/11/2026HouseHouse/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/3/2026HouseEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/3/2026Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/3/2026Bill Received from House for Enrolling
3/3/2026House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
2/27/2026HouseHouse/ received from Senate
2/27/2026HouseSenate/ to House
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ signed by President/ returned to House
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ passed 3rd reading
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ 3rd reading
2/27/2026SenateSenate/ passed 2nd reading
2/26/2026SenateSenate/ 2nd reading
2/26/2026SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
2/25/2026SenateSenate/ committee report favorable
2/25/2026SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/24/2026Senate/ to standing committee
2/19/2026SenateSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
2/17/2026SenateSenate/ received from House
2/17/2026SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/17/2026HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/17/2026HouseHouse/ floor amendment
2/17/2026HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
2/17/2026House
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/3/2026
Amended 2/17/2026 11:02:121
2/17/2026
Amended 2/5/2026 11:02:167
2/5/2026
Introduced
1/28/2026