Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah HB109: Municipal Election Amendments
Status: Signed into law, March 27, 2025
This bill modifies a municipal council's power to dismiss a municipal manager.
What the bill says
From the introduced text:
Municipal Election Amendments 2025 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Nelson T. Abbott Senate Sponsor: Keith Grover LONG TITLE General Description: This bill modifies a municipal council's power to dismiss a municipal manager. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - provides that, beginning on the day on which a municipal general election is held and ending on the day on which a council member-elect begins the council member's term of office, a six-member or five-member municipal council may not adopt an ordinance that establishes a more restrictive procedure for the dismissal of a municipal manager; and - makes technical and conforming changes. Money Appropriated in this Bill: None Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: AMENDS: 10-3b-303 , as last amended by Laws of Utah 2011, Chapter 209 10-3b-403 , as last amended by Laws of Utah 2011, Chapter 209 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: Section 1, Section 10-3b-303 is amended to read: 10-3b-303. Council in six-member council form of government. (1) The council in a municipality operating under a six-member council form of government: (a) exercises any executive or administrative power and performs or supervises the performance of any executive or administrative duty or function that: (i) has not been given to the mayor under Section 10-3b-104 ; or (ii) has been given …
Sponsors
- Nelson Abbott (R, 57) · primary sponsor
- Keith Grover (R, 23)
Latest actions
- : Governor Signed
- : House/ to Governor
- : House/ received enrolled bill from Printing
- : House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- : Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- : Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- : Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- : House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
- : House/ received from Senate
- : Senate/ to House
Votes
- Senate/ passed 3rd reading (February 14, 2025): 15 yea, 8 nay, passed
- Senate/ passed 2nd reading (February 13, 2025): 23 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 6, 2025): 3 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House/ passed 3rd reading (January 29, 2025): 70 yea, 0 nay, passed
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (January 22, 2025): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: REITZ, AARON F. (NM0TC), Local Government Employees, Local Government Ordinances, Political Subdivisions (Local Issues), Municipalities
Common questions
- What is HB109?
- HB109 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2025 General Session): Municipal Election Amendments.
- What does HB109 do?
- This bill modifies a municipal council's power to dismiss a municipal manager.
- What is the status of HB109?
- Signed into law as of March 27, 2025. Latest action: Governor Signed (March 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB109?
- Nelson Abbott (R, 57), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB109?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0109.html
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