2025 bills / S.B. 282
S.B. 282 Higher Education Hiring Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill exempts search committees for public college and university presidents from the state's open meetings law, letting them meet in closed sessions to protect candidate confidentiality. It requires each committee to recommend three finalists to the Utah Board of Higher Education, which must hold an open public meeting to take final hiring action.
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Official description
- exempts a search committee for an institution of higher education president from the Open and Public Meetings Act
- expands the duties of a search committee
- requires a search committee to:
- protect candidate confidentiality, including by meeting in closed executive sessions
- recommend three finalists to the Utah Board of Higher Education (board)
- maintains all presidential application materials as protected records
- requires an open and public meeting of the board for final hiring action of a president
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 1 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse Education Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how