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Read. Follow. Verify.Utah Regulates Ambulance Membership Organizations with Licensing and Reserve Requirements
Last action · March 6, 2026: House/ filedSponsor: Jim Dunnigan
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What This Bill Proposed
This bill enacts provisions relating to ambulance membership organizations.
Enforces financial solvency standards and transparent marketing rules for entities offering emergency ambulance subscription contracts, impacting consumers, healthcare providers, and insurance regulators across Utah.
- The Utah Insurance Department regulates insurance entities and consumer protection rules across the state. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Ambulance membership organizations
Must comply with new licensing, reserve funding, surety bond, reporting, and marketing disclosure requirements.
Medicaid program enrollees
Prohibited from purchasing or being enrolled in ambulance membership contracts.
Insurance Department
Empowered to license, examine, investigate, and penalize ambulance membership organizations.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is an ambulance membership contract?
Can individuals on Medicaid purchase an ambulance membership contract?
What happens if a member cancels their ambulance membership contract within 30 days?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
12 actions- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ filed
- Mar 6, 2026HouseHouse/ strike enacting clause
- Feb 19, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0560S01
- Feb 18, 2026Version SponsorLFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0560
- Feb 16, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0560S01
- Feb 16, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0560S01
Show 6 earlier actions
- Feb 13, 2026HouseIntroducedHouse/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- Feb 13, 2026HouseHouse/ received bill from Legislative Research
- Feb 13, 2026Legislative Fiscal AgencyLFA/ bill sent to agencies for fiscal input for HB0560
- Feb 13, 2026Legislative Fiscal AnalystLFA/ bill assigned to staff for fiscal analysis for HB0560
- Feb 13, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselNumbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- Feb 13, 2026Legislative Research and General CounselBill Numbered but not Distributed
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Full breakdown
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Establishment of Dedicated Insurance Code Chapter for Ambulance Memberships
The bill enacts an entirely new chapter (Title 31A, Chapter 6c) to regulate ambulance membership organizations separately from traditional health insurance.
Connected Entities
Sources
le.utah.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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