All Roll Calls
Yes: 132 • No: 0
UtahS.B. 3172025 General SessionSenate
Dietitian Licensing Amendments
Sponsored By: Evan J. Vickers (Republican)
Signed by Governor
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9 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 6 mixed.
Dietitians face coordinated discipline across states
Only the Home State can discipline its own license; remote states can discipline privileges while following their due-process laws. Home States must treat other member states’ reports like local conduct and finish investigations even after a dietitian moves. They must apply their own laws, take appropriate action, and promptly report conclusions to the shared system. States can investigate jointly and must share materials for those investigations. Cross-state subpoenas are enforceable under the receiving state’s court procedures; the issuing authority pays required witness fees and expenses. States can charge affected dietitians investigation and case costs tied to discipline when state law allows. Home State discipline that restricts the license revokes all other compact privileges while the restriction remains. Restoring privileges requires Home State certification that restrictions are gone, meeting compact eligibility requirements, and reapplying under each remote state’s procedures.
Military dietitians can keep licensing home
Active-duty service members and their spouses can choose a Home State where they hold a current license in good standing. They can keep that Home State designation throughout the service member’s active duty.
Compact staff gain legal cost protection
The Commission must defend its members, officers, director, employees, and representatives in qualifying civil cases tied to compact duties. It must cover qualifying settlements and judgments, including when personnel reasonably believed their conduct fell within their duties. Protection excludes intentional, willful, or wanton misconduct.
Moving dietitians must reapply and pay
Dietitians moving between member states must apply for a new Home State license, pay fees, and notify both states. The new state checks eligibility, requires FBI fingerprint-based and other required background checks, and applies its practice-law requirements. Once the new license starts, the former Home State converts its license to a Compact Privilege. Dietitians can have only one compact Home State license at a time. Those who do not qualify for the compact can face the new state’s Single State License requirements.
Dietitians gain interstate practice with fees
Qualifying dietitians can use a Compact Privilege to practice in other member states without separate full licenses, including through telehealth. They need an unrestricted Home State license and current Registered Dietitian registration or the compact’s alternative education, practice, and exam credentials. The alternative includes an accredited master’s or doctoral degree, or a recognized foreign equivalent, and at least 1,000 supervised practice hours. The qualifying exam must fall within five years before initial licensing, with continuous licensing afterward. Applicants must notify the Commission, pay applicable fees, meet each remote state’s practice-law requirements, and follow its practice laws. Only Home State continuing-education requirements apply; privileges expire and renew with the Home State license. Dietitians must report nonmember-state license discipline or restrictions within 30 days; a Single State License alone grants no interstate privilege.
Dietitians get notice before states exit
A state can withdraw by repealing the compact; withdrawal takes effect 180 days after enactment. It must immediately notify licensees, keep reporting through withdrawal, and recognize privileges for at least 180 days after notice. Member-state delegates can remove a state by majority vote after an uncured default and exhausted efforts to secure compliance. A removed state must notify licensees, honor existing privileges for at least six months after notice, and pay obligations through termination.
Dietitian records shared with privacy limits
Member states must license dietitians, investigate complaints, recognize qualifying privileges, enforce Commission rules, and conduct initial criminal-history checks. Those checks use fingerprints or other biometric information and FBI results. The Commission must run a shared data system and assign each privilege applicant a unique identifier. States must submit required data, report discipline and current significant investigation information, and monitor the system. Significant investigation information stays within member states; expunged records must be removed. State-designated information needs that state’s express permission for public release, and eligibility communications cannot include FBI criminal-history information.
Binding dietitian rules preserve state safeguards
Commission rules have the force of law in member states without going through each state’s rulemaking process. Later-joining states accept existing Commission rules and bylaws when the compact becomes law there. A court can block a Commission rule where it conflicts with state laws defining allowed dietitian practices and circumstances. The compact otherwise overrides conflicting state requirements only to the extent of the conflict. Nonconflicting state requirements remain enforceable.
Dietitian compact starts after seven states
Utah’s law took effect May 7, 2025; the interstate compact starts when a seventh state enacts it. The supplied provisions do not identify that seventh enactment date. States joining after the first seven face review for material differences and eligibility to participate. A materially conflicting state constitutional requirement can lead the Commission to deny or end participation under compact procedures. The compact continues for other states and separable matters, even when departures leave fewer than seven members.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Evan J. Vickers
Republican • Senate
Cosponsors
Steve Eliason
Republican • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/7/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 68 • No: 0
House vote • 3/4/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 10 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/3/2025
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 26 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/28/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 24 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/26/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 4 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/27/2025Senate/ to Governor
3/17/2025SenateSenate/ received enrolled bill from Printing
3/17/2025SenateSenate/ enrolled bill to Printing
3/14/2025SenateEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
3/14/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
3/11/2025Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
3/11/2025Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling
3/8/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
3/8/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ 3rd reading
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ 2nd reading
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
3/7/2025HouseHouse/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
3/4/2025HouseHouse/ committee report favorable
3/4/2025HouseHouse Comm - Favorable Recommendation
3/4/2025HouseHouse/ to standing committee
3/3/2025HouseHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
3/3/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
3/3/2025HouseSenate/ to House
3/3/2025SenateSenate/ passed 3rd reading
3/3/2025SenateSenate/ 3rd reading
3/3/2025SenateSenate/ passed 2nd reading
2/28/2025Senate
Bill Text
Enrolled
3/14/2025
Introduced
2/21/2025