2025 bills / S.B. 22
S.B. 22 State Employee Benefit Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill changes how Utah state employees' long-term disability benefits are figured, including the definition of gainful employment and counting pay for time beyond a regular schedule. It adds a death benefit for employees receiving long-term disability benefits, offers them life assistance counseling, and raises and adds tiers to state-paid basic life insurance for exempt state employees.
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Official description
- modifies the definition of gainful employment for purposes of the Public Employees' Long-Term Disability Act
- includes pay for time that exceeds an eligible employee's regular schedule in the calculation of the eligible employee's regular monthly salary
- establishes a death benefit for employees receiving long-term disability benefits
- makes life assistance counseling that the Utah State Retirement Office offers available to employees receiving long-term disability benefits
- increases the state-paid basic life insurance benefit for exempt state employees
- creates additional state-paid basic life insurance benefit tiers for exempt state employees
- directs savings from a reduction in long-term disability premium rates be used to pay for the cost of the changes in this bill
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Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to change the bill · 1/22/2025 2:16 PMWho voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Business and Labor Committee: vote to approve it · 1/22/2025 2:20 PMWho voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 1/23/2025 11:40 AMWho voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · 1/24/2025 11:37 AM
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 2/13/2025 8:45 AMWho voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · 2/13/2025 8:45 AMWho voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · 3/5/2025 8:23 PM
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/6/2025 2:17 PM