---
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: "2022"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "Utah SB 8 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Public Budgeting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ipson, Don L."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-03"
last_action: "2022-03-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7afa68c2-cc7a-4f1f-9260-2417a0a22a66"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/static/SB0008.html"
source_hash: "774fcc2f87bc013e8156c629163ca7a62272de8c5df5202e249781fbd9702afa"
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 SB 8 (2022) — 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](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillint/SB0008S01.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/~2022/bills/sbillenr/SB0008.pdf)

## Votes

- passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- passed 3rd reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ipson, Don L. — primary (person)
- Spendlove, Robert M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-03** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2022-01-03** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2022-01-12** received bill from Legislative Research
- **2022-01-18** received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- **2022-01-18** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** fiscal note sent to sponsor
- **2022-02-28** to Printing with fiscal note
- **2022-03-01** Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-01** 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** circled
- **2022-03-01** uncircled
- **2022-03-01** substituted from # 0 to # 1
- **2022-03-01** passed 2nd & 3rd readings/suspension `passage`
- **2022-03-01** to House
- **2022-03-01** received from Senate
- **2022-03-01** 1st reading (Introduced) `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-03-02** Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2022-03-02** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-02** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2022-03-02** signed by Speaker/returned to Senate
- **2022-03-02** to Senate
- **2022-03-02** received from House
- **2022-03-02** signed by President/sent for enrolling
- **2022-03-11** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
- **2022-03-11** enrolled bill to Printing
- **2022-03-15** received enrolled bill from Printing
- **2022-03-15** to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** 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/7afa68c2-cc7a-4f1f-9260-2417a0a22a66`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).