Utah

The pathways, as the board describes them

License by endorsement, the route the division must grant. The statute states a mandatory route with three conditions: "the division shall issue a license to an applicant who has been licensed in another state, district, or territory of the United States if:" "the division determines that the license issued in the other state, district, or territory encompasses a similar scope of practice as the license sought in this state;" "the applicant has at least one year of experience practicing under the license issued in the other state, district, or territory; and" "the applicant's license is in good standing in the other state, district, or territory where the license was issued." Read the one-year condition closely; it is the condition most likely to catch a recently licensed nurse.

License by endorsement, the route the division may grant. Where the mandatory route does not fit, a discretionary one is stated: "the division may issue a license to an applicant who:" "has been licensed in another state, district, or territory of the United States, or in a jurisdiction outside of the United States, if:" the division determines "that the applicant's education, credentialing examination, experience, and skills demonstrate competency in the profession for which the licensure is sought in this state; and" "the applicant has at least one year of experience practicing under the license issued in the other state, district, territory, or jurisdiction; or" "the division determines that the licensure requirements of the other state, district, territory, or jurisdiction at the time the license was issued were substantially similar to the current requirements for the license sought in this state". A separate limb covers an applicant who "has never been licensed in a state, district, or territory of the United States, or in a jurisdiction outside of the United States".

How the nursing rule routes a nurse to that statute. The rule does not restate the endorsement test; it points at it. A registered nurse "who holds a current RN license issued by another state, district, or territory of the United States, or in a jurisdiction outside the United States, shall:" "demonstrate that the license issued by the other jurisdiction meets the requirements for licensure by endorsement in Section 58-1-302; or" "complete the requirements of Subsection 58-31b-302(4) and Subsection (1) for an applicant who has never obtained an RN license." The practical-nurse provision is written the same way and points to "Subsection 58-1-302(2)".

The multistate privilege. Quoted in the docket, from Utah's own enactment of the compact.

The published process

Practice while the application is pending. Utah publishes a permit, and its shape is the opposite of what the name suggests — it is not a general bridge for anyone whose application is pending. It is available only where the endorsement routes above have already failed: for an applicant "who is or has been licensed in another jurisdiction, but does not satisfy the requirements of Subsection (2) or (3)", the division may evaluate the applicant's qualifications, and "the division may issue a limited supervised training permit to the applicant if:" "the applicant has an employment offer from an employer in the state;" and "the employer attests to the division that the applicant will work under the level of supervision the division requires by rule". The supervisor must be an individual who "holds a license in good standing of the same classification as the limited supervised training permit; and" "has held the license for a minimum period of time the division defines by rule". The statute defines the instrument as "a temporary authorization to work in a limited professional capacity that would otherwise require licensure under this title." Two consequences a nurse should read directly: the permit turns on an employer's offer and an employer's attestation, not on the nurse alone, and it ends when the application does — it "expires:" "upon the division's grant or denial of the applicant's application for licensure by endorsement." Extension is tightly bounded: "The division may not renew or otherwise extend a limited supervised training permit unless:" a hardship "arose beyond the limited supervised training permit holder's control", the holder shows "reasonable progress toward obtaining licensure in the state", the renewal is "proportionate to the circumstance or hardship; and" "the limited supervised training permit holder's employer consents in writing to the renewal or extension." Searched for this row: Utah Code sections 58-1-302 and 58-31e-102, the chapter contents of 58-31e, and the whole of R156-31b. The division's own pages, which may describe how a permit is requested in practice, could not be read.

Verification of the existing license. No verification method is named in the sources reviewed — Nursys does not appear in Utah's statute or in its nursing rule. What the statute states instead is a determination the division makes about the other jurisdiction's license, quoted in section 01, and the rule requires a nurse to "demonstrate that the license issued by the other jurisdiction meets the requirements for licensure by endorsement in Section 58-1-302". How that demonstration is made is a matter for the division's own instructions, which are on the site this page could not read.

Fingerprints and the background check. Utah's own enacted compact text states the requirement and names endorsement applicants specifically: "A state must implement procedures for considering the criminal history records of applicants for initial multistate license or licensure by endorsement. Such procedures shall include the submission of fingerprints or other biometric-based information by applicants for the purpose of obtaining an applicant's criminal history record information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the agency responsible for retaining that state's criminal records." No further detail — where fingerprints are taken, on what form, at what cost — appears in the sources reviewed.

The three rows above answer the questions an experienced adviser raises first, from the state's own published law, or record that a question is not answered in them.

Fees, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none totaled. No fee amount appears in any source captured for this page, and that is a gap in what could be read rather than a finding that Utah charges nothing.

What the rule states is the obligation without the figure: "An applicant for licensure shall pay the nonrefundable application fee before the application may be considered by the Division or Board." The schedule that would state the amount is published by the division on dopl.utah.gov, which returned an HTTP 403 interstitial to every request on the date in the docket, including its own `/robots.txt`. Searched for this row: Utah Code sections 58-1-302 and 58-31e-102, the chapter contents of 58-31e, and the whole of R156-31b, in which the word fee appears six times and no amount appears at all.

What any of this means for a particular application is for the division to determine.

Timelines, as stated in the sources

All quoted; none calculated.

On moving to Utah as a compact nurse, the rule states the clock twice, once for each level. A registered nurse holding a license "in an interstate Party state, as defined in Section 58-31e-102 of the Nurse Licensure Compact, shall" "apply for a license within 90 days of establishing residency in Utah". The practical-nurse provision is identically worded.

On the endorsement conditions, the statute states an experience floor rather than a processing time: "the applicant has at least one year of experience practicing under the license issued in the other state, district, or territory".

On the limited supervised training permit, no fixed duration is stated. It "expires:" "on the deadline that the division makes for the applicant to complete the additional education or experience described in Subsection (6)(b)(iii)(B)" or "upon the division's grant or denial of the applicant's application for licensure by endorsement."

On renewal, the rule states the cycle by reference: "the renewal date for the two-year renewal cycle for licensees under Title 58, Chapter 31b, Nurse Practice Act, is established in Section R156-1-308a."

On a lapsed Utah license, the rule sets its thresholds in years: an applicant who "has not practiced as a nurse in any jurisdiction for up to five years" documents continuing competency, and one who "has not practiced as a nurse in any jurisdiction for more than five years but less than eight years" must "pass the NCLEX-RN examination within 60 days following the date of application" or "complete an approved re-entry pr" — the rule continues beyond the span captured here.

No processing time for an endorsement application is stated in the sources reviewed. What any of this means for a particular application is for the division to determine.

Source map

Two publishers appear below, and a third is absent by refusal. The Utah Division of Professional Licensing publishes its own application instructions, forms, fee schedule and contact details at dopl.utah.gov, which answers automated callers with a Cloudflare bot-challenge interstitial rather than its content; six transports were tried across two sessions and none reached a page. The statute and the administrative rule the division administers are published elsewhere — by the Legislature and by the Office of Administrative Rules — and neither restricts automated reading. That is where everything quoted on this page comes from.

Change log

Aug 31, 2026 · Page created. Captured first-party and appended mechanically by `tools/capture.py` from `tools/recipes/utah.json`, transport curl throughout, honouring le.utah.gov's stated `Crawl-delay: 10`: Utah Code sections 58-1-302 and 58-31e-102, the chapter contents of 58-31e, and Utah Administrative Code R156-31b, all retrieved Aug 31, 2026. Findings recorded rather than smoothed: (1) dopl.utah.gov remains unreachable, and the refusal is total — even `/robots.txt` returns the HTTP 403 challenge page, so the division does not tell automated callers what they may read; the 2026-08-30 access request stands unanswered, and this page was built from the other publishers rather than by circumventing the challenge, no attempt at which was made; (2) Utah's endorsement standard is not in its nursing law at all but in Section 58-1-302, a general statute covering every profession the division licenses, and the nursing rule simply points at it — a structural difference from every other jurisdiction in this collection so far; (3) the statute states two endorsement routes, one the division "shall" grant and one it "may", and both require "at least one year of experience practicing under the license issued in the other state"; (4) the pending-practice instrument is a limited supervised training permit, and it is not a general bridge — it is available only to an applicant who does not satisfy the ordinary endorsement routes, it requires an employment offer and an employer's attestation, and it expires "upon the division's grant or denial of the applicant's application for licensure by endorsement", so the nurse whose application is simply slow is not its subject; (5) an extension requires the employer's written consent, which places the instrument partly in the employer's hands; (6) no fee amount appears in any captured source, and the rule states only "the nonrefundable application fee" — recorded as a gap in what could be read, not as a finding about Utah's fees; (7) no contact for the division appears in any captured source, so the offices row states an absence rather than supplying a number from elsewhere; (8) Utah's compact enactment carries the criminal-history requirement in its own statute and names licensure by endorsement in it, which is where this page's fingerprint row comes from, there being no division instruction to read. Capture pending: Utah Code chapter 58-31b, and everything on dopl.utah.gov. Two reproducibility hazards are recorded in `tools/recipes/utah.json` and repeated here because a later pass will meet them: the Office of Administrative Rules serves rule text at a version-specific UUID that keeps returning HTTP 200 with the old text after an amendment — a stale success rather than an honest failure — and must be re-resolved through the search endpoint before a re-capture is trusted; and le.utah.gov serves a page shell that loads its content from a companion address encoding the section's effective dates, so those addresses change when a section is amended. The chapter-contents source is captured partly to carry those version strings forward. Internet Archive captures: to be added. Reviewer: Carrie Schluter, reviewed Aug 31, 2026. Corrections on the record in this log: hello@fieldassembly.net.