2025 bills / H.B. 8
H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill provides money for state employee pay raises of 2.5% for market adjustments and 1% one-time performance increases, with similar discretionary raises and bonuses for elected officials, judiciary, and higher education staff. It also funds changes to health and dental benefit costs, retirement rate adjustments for certain state employees, and a match of up to $26 per pay period for qualifying employees in a defined contribution retirement plan.
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Official description
- provides funding for a 2.5% labor market increase for state agency employees and discretionary pay increases equal to 2.5% for elected official, judiciary, and higher education employees
- provides funding for a 1% one-time pay for performance increase for state employees and discretionary bonuses equal to 1% one-time for employees of elected officials and the judiciary
- provides funding for health and dental benefit cost changes as recommended by the Public Employees Health Programs
- provides funding for retirement rate changes for certain state employees as recommended by the Utah Retirement Systems
- provides funding for an up-to $26 per pay period match for qualifying state employees enrolled in a defined contribution plan
- provides funding for other compensation adjustments as authorized
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 8 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 8 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 1 no, 7 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how