---
type: "Bill"
title: "S.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
description: "S.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "S.B. 8"
citation: "Utah S.B. 8 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Budgeting", "Higher Education", "Appropriations", "State Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Van Tassell, Kevin T."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6359461b-1130-453c-92ae-391a2809f40a"
source_url: "http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/static/SB0008.html"
source_hash: "35eb8a880b6fc5231b98fd882a150e272377db435f1ee3714489c5d070cf929c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ut"]
---

# Utah S.B. 8 (2018) — S.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillint/SB0008S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://le.utah.gov/~2018/bills/sbillenr/SB0008.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **26–0** (pass) · legislature
- passed 3rd reading — **71–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Van Tassell, Kevin T. — primary (person)
- Schultz, Mike — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2018-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2018-01-22** received bill from Legislative Printing
- **2018-01-22** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-03** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2018-03-03** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2018-03-05** lifted from Rules
- **2018-03-05** placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-05** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2018-03-05** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2018-03-05** to House
- **2018-03-05** received from Senate
- **2018-03-05** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2018-03-06** 2nd suspended
- **2018-03-06** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** circled
- **2018-03-06** uncircled
- **2018-03-06** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2018-03-06** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2018-03-06** to Senate
- **2018-03-07** received from House
- **2018-03-07** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2018-03-07** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2018-03-15** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2018-03-15** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2018-03-16** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2018-03-16** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2018-03-16** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** Governor Signed `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6359461b-1130-453c-92ae-391a2809f40a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).