2025 bills / S.B. 21
S.B. 21 Long-Term Disability Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes how Utah's public employee long-term disability program defines a qualifying medical impairment and handles benefit applications. It also clarifies which employees qualify for mental-impairment disability benefits through June 30, 2026, changes monthly benefit exclusions, and has the program administer the existing long-term benefit for volunteer emergency medical personnel.
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Official description
- modifies the definition of objective medical impairment for purposes of the Public Employees' Long-Term Disability Act
- amends provisions related to the application for and determination of long-term disability benefits
- clarifies which employees are eligible for a disability benefit for a total disability due to a mental objective medical impairment through June 30, 2026
- modifies the exclusions for monthly disability benefits
- directs the Public Employees' Long-Term Disability program to administer the existing basic long-term benefit for volunteer emergency medical services personnel
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 21 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 21 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
- 6 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 29 yes, 0 noFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 27, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 28, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 6 absentHouse Public Utilities and Energy Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 7, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how