Utah legislation · 2025 General Session
Utah HB180: Employee Compensation Amendments
Status: Failed, March 7, 2025
This bill modifies requirements related to compensation of executive branch employees.
What the bill says
From the introduced text:
Employee Compensation Amendments 2025 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Gay Lynn Bennion Senate Sponsor: Todd Weiler LONG TITLE General Description: This bill modifies requirements related to compensation of executive branch employees. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - requires that compensation be based on the relative ability, knowledge, and skills of an employee; and - prohibits an executive branch employer from inquiring regarding an employee's or prospective employee's current or previous compensation. Money Appropriated in this Bill: None Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: AMENDS: 63A-17-104 , as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2021, Chapter 344 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: Section 1, Section 63A-17-104 is amended to read: 63A-17-104. Discriminatory or prohibited employment practices. (1) The state, the state's officers, and employees shall be governed by the provisions of Section 34A-5-106 of the Utah Antidiscrimination Act concerning discriminatory or prohibited employment practices. (2) (a) As used in this Subsection (2): (i) "State employer" means a state executive branch agency, including the State Tax Commission, the National Guard, and the Board of Pardons and Parole. (ii) "State employer" does not include: (A) an institute of higher education; (B) the Utah Board of Higher Education; (C) the State Board of Education; (D) an independent entity, as defined in Section 63E-1-102 ; …
Sponsors
- Bennion, Gay (D) · primary sponsor
- Todd Weiler (R, 8)
Latest actions
- : House/ filed
- : House/ strike enacting clause
- : House/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- : House Comm - Returned to Rules
- : House Comm - Held
- : House/ to standing committee
- : House/ lifted from standing committee
- : House/ to standing committee
- : House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- : House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
Votes
- House Comm - Favorable Recommendation (February 14, 2025): 10 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: State Officers and Employees, REITZ, AARON F. (NM0TC)
Common questions
- What is HB180?
- HB180 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2025 General Session): Employee Compensation Amendments.
- What does HB180 do?
- This bill modifies requirements related to compensation of executive branch employees.
- What is the status of HB180?
- Failed as of March 7, 2025. Latest action: House/ filed (March 7, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB180?
- Bennion, Gay (D), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB180?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0180.html
Source: official Utah record. Tracked by Delilah, AI for legislation across all 50 states and Congress.