---
type: "Bill"
title: "H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
description: "H.B. 8 State Agency and Higher Education Compensation Appropriations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "Utah HB 8 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Education", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Higher Education", "Judicial Administration", "Judicial Operations", "K-12 Education", "Legislative Employees and Compensation", "Legislative Operations", "Legislative Organization", "State Officers and Employees", "Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Moss, Jefferson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-02-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7bc15ef-e4ac-4797-965f-f7c420604fb6"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0008.html"
source_hash: "57c05222a8d7448ad8c6c8343852b05491d24bd317ec0bfbe8bc32c1b09b5d09"
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 HB 8 (2021) — H.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](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillint/HB0008S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/hbillenr/HB0008.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 3rd reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Moss, Jefferson — primary (person)
- Ipson, Don L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2021-01-19** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2021-01-20** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2021-01-20** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-21** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2021-01-22** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2021-01-22** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-22** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2021-01-22** circled
- **2021-01-26** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2021-01-26** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2021-01-27** uncircled
- **2021-01-27** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2021-01-27** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2021-01-27** to Senate
- **2021-01-28** received from House
- **2021-01-28** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2021-01-28** signed by President/returned to House
- **2021-01-28** to House
- **2021-01-28** received from Senate
- **2021-01-28** signed by Speaker/sent for enrolling
- **2021-01-29** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2021-01-29** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2021-01-29** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2021-01-29** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2021-02-01** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2021-02-01** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-04** 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/b7bc15ef-e4ac-4797-965f-f7c420604fb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).