2025 bills / S.B. 208
S.B. 208 Parent-time and Custody Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill changes Utah's parent-time rules for divorced or separated parents. It bars courts from forcing a parent to reveal an address if they moved to escape domestic or family violence, changes custody and parent-time when a child turns five, and makes summer and off-track extended time consecutive while removing Columbus Day and Veterans Day from holiday schedules.
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Official description
- provides that a court may not require a parent to disclose the parent's address if the parent relocated due to domestic violence or family violence by the other parent
- addresses a change of custody or parent-time for a minor child who turns five years old
- addresses the establishment and modification of a parent-time schedule
- modifies the parent-time requirements upon the relocation of a parent
- addresses telephone contact and virtual parent-time for a noncustodial parent when a parent relocates
- requires the time periods for extended parent-time by a parent for summer break or off-track time to be consecutive
- modifies the parent-time schedules to address consistency among the schedules
- modifies the parent-time schedules for Mother's Day and Father's Day
- removes Columbus Day and Veterans Day as holidays in the parent-time schedules
- includes a coordination clause to address a substantive conflict with the parent-time schedule for Juneteenth National Freedom Day if this bill and H.B. 370, State Holiday Modifications, both pass and become law
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 208 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 208 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, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 19, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how