2025 bills / S.B. 278
S.B. 278 State Debt Collection Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill expands the Office of State Debt Collection's duties, letting it hold, dispose of, or acquire real property when that is incidental to collection proceedings. It also requires that the office be notified when someone files a probate application or petition, and exempts state collection of criminal accounts, restitution judgments, and civil accounts from certain probate time limits, while letting the Department of Health and Human Services pursue recovery claims against estates despite contrary probate code provisions.
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Official description
- modifies the duties of the Office of State Debt Collection (office)
- allows the office to hold title to real property or dispose or acquire surplus property, if doing so is incidental to execution or collection proceedings
- provides that the Department of Health and Human Services may enforce certain rights to recovery against a decedent's estate regardless of any contrary provisions in the Utah Uniform Probate Code
- requires notice to the office when a person files an application or a petition for probate
- exempts proceedings to enforce or collect a criminal account receivable, civil judgment of restitution, or civil account receivable from certain time limitations in the Utah Uniform Probate Code
- addresses enforcement of a civil judgment of restitution or civil account receivable
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · 2/19/2025 8:51 AMWho voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/25/2025 11:59 AMWho voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/27/2025 11:43 AMWho voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · 3/5/2025 6:49 PM