All Roll Calls
Yes: 172 • No: 0
UtahS.B. 2152025 General SessionSenateWALLET
Emergency Medical Services Modifications
Sponsored By: Derrin R. Owens (Republican)
Signed by Governor
CountiesHealth and Human ServicesHealth Care ProfessionalsLaw Enforcement and Criminal JusticeMunicipalitiesPolitical Subdivisions (Local Issues)Department of Public SafetyEmergency Medical Services
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Utah communities must ensure ambulance coverage
Beginning May 7, 2025, Utah cities and counties have exclusive local authority and must ensure minimum ambulance service levels. This covers 911 calls and ground ambulance trips between health care facilities. Providers must hold state licenses and follow state committee rules. Local governments can run or support services themselves, or arrange services with public or private entities. They must arrange backup transport between facilities when the main provider is unavailable, and share agreements with local dispatchers and health care facilities.
Ambulance oversight gains powers and penalties
Beginning May 7, 2025, Utah’s emergency medical services bureau administers and enforces state emergency medical programs and rules. It can deny or renew with restrictions, revoke, suspend, or place licenses and designations on probation, including for non-911 providers. Grounds include missed service or renewal requirements, rule violations, operational failures, gross negligence, and conduct endangering the public. In formal investigations and peer review cases, it can administer oaths and require witnesses, testimony, and relevant records. The bureau can issue cease-and-desist orders for violations; the department can immediately suspend a license for a clear, imminent public threat. Administrative proceedings and state health-data protections remain, alongside bureau duties for data sharing, a voluntary provider advisory group, and peer review. Willfully disobeying a valid subpoena or cease-and-desist order is a class B misdemeanor.
Local ambulance selection adds provider preferences
Beginning May 7, 2025, local ambulance selection replaces former state-set selection procedures, public-need decisions, and related hearings. Within three months before license expiration, local governments must hold an open public review of cost, quality, and access. They must seek competing proposals from qualified private for-profit, government, and quasi-government providers. At license expiration, the current 911 provider gets first choice to provide transport between facilities; local service duties continue if it declines. When providers differ, the existing transfer provider’s license lasts until the later of two years after enactment or the next formal review. State licensing still checks minimum qualifications, but approval steps no longer explicitly require financial statements, letters of credit, or government guarantees. The law sets no ambulance prices and provides no new funding.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Derrin R. Owens
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Moss, Jefferson
Affiliation unavailable
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 3/7/2025
Senate/ concurs with House amendment
Yes: 26 • No: 0
House vote • 3/7/2025
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • 3/7/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 72 • No: 0
House vote • 3/3/2025
House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
Yes: 7 • No: 0
House vote • 3/3/2025
House Comm - Amendment Recommendation
Yes: 7 • No: 0
House vote • 3/3/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 25 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/18/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 23 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/6/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ substituted
Yes: 0 • No: 0
House vote • Unknown
House/ floor amendment
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/25/2025Senate/ to Governor
3/17/2025SenateSenate/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/17/2025SenateSenate/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/13/2025SenateEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/13/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/7/2025Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
3/7/2025Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/7/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/7/2025HouseSenate/ to House
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ concurs with House amendment
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
3/7/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/7/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ floor amendment
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
3/5/2025HouseHouse/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
3/5/2025HouseHouse/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
3/4/2025HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ substituted/ amended
3/4/2025HouseHouse Comm - Favorable Recommendation
3/3/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/13/2025
Amended 3/7/2025 12:03:485
3/7/2025
Amended 3/4/2025 09:03:658
3/4/2025
Substitute #2
2/28/2025
Substitute #1
2/19/2025
Introduced
2/3/2025