2025 bills / S.B. 19
S.B. 19 Utah Retirement Systems Amendments for Military Personnel (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would let employer retirement contributions to a defined contribution plan fully vest when a member leaves a job, if the member or their spouse is a military service member ordered to move permanently or relocate outside Utah. It would also let certain Utah National Guard personnel, including the adjutant general, choose to opt out of the state retirement systems, with employer contributions vesting right away.
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Official description
- provides that employer nonelective contributions made on behalf of an employee to a defined contribution plan vest upon the member's termination of employment, if the member or the member's spouse is a military service member who receives permanent change of station or relocation orders outside the state
- allows specified Utah National Guard personnel, including the adjutant general, to elect to be exempt from the retirement systems, allowing employer contributions to vest immediately
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 19 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 19 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
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 21, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 71 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how