---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education Strategic Reinvestment"
description: "Higher Education Strategic Reinvestment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 265"
citation: "Utah HB 265 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Colleges and Universities", "Education", "Higher Education", "Legislative Operations", "Performance Funding", "School Finance", "Utah Board of Higher Education", "Utah System of Higher Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peterson, Karen M."]
version_count: 20
action_count: 48
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-17T21:45:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T14:46:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2524377d-7bd1-41f0-bfa7-0e8ccb5a8472"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0265.html"
source_hash: "4f5c6e08e37dfe68765f5fa5a0ebea8cf3fdd31ccea4452e9b5c97085d6e0f7e"
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 265 (2025) — Higher Education Strategic Reinvestment

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0265.xml)
2. **Amended 2/19/2025 11:02:647** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0265_2025-02-19_11-41-19.pdf)
3. **Amended 2/3/2025 11:02:66** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0265_2025-02-03_11-06-22.pdf)
4. **Amended Excerpts 2/19/2025 11:02:647** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0265_2025-02-19_11-41-19.pdf)
5. **Amended Excerpts 2/3/2025 11:02:66** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0265_2025-02-03_11-06-22.pdf)
6. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0265 To HB0265S01.pdf)
7. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265.Hamd.1.pdf)
8. **House Amendment 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265.Hamd.2.pdf)
9. **House Amendment 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265.Hamd.3.pdf)
10. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB265H10.pdf)
11. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB265H10.pdf)
12. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB265H20.pdf)
13. **Senate Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265S01.Samd.1.pdf)
14. **Senate Amendment 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265.Samd.4.pdf)
15. **Senate Amendment 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0265.Samd.5.pdf)
16. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB265S10.pdf)
17. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB265S10.pdf)
18. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB265S20.pdf)
19. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0265S01.xml)
20. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0265.xml)

## Sponsors

- Peterson, Karen M. — primary (person)
- Millner, Ann — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-17T21:45:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-17T21:45:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:51:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-24T17:57:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-27T18:35:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31T23:25:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-01-31T23:27:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-03T18:12:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-03T18:12:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-04T18:20:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-04T18:21:00+00:00** House/ circled
- **2025-02-04T21:19:00+00:00** House/ uncircled
- **2025-02-04T21:39:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-04T21:39:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-04T22:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-05T18:13:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-11T21:21:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T15:14:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-19T15:55:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19T18:33:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-19T18:33:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-26T22:06:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-02-26T22:06:00+00:00** Senate/ circled
- **2025-02-26T22:19:00+00:00** Senate/ uncircled
- **2025-02-26T22:21:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-26T22:30:00+00:00** Senate/ floor amendment failed `amendment-failure, failure`
- **2025-02-26T22:31:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T22:32:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 3rd Reading Calendar table
- **2025-03-04T18:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed back on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T02:26:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T02:26:00+00:00** Senate/ to House with amendments
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T16:48:00+00:00** House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-05T21:38:00+00:00** House/ concurs with Senate amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-05T21:38:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-06T01:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-06T15:44:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-06T15:44:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-06T19:11:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-06T19:11:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-11T23:03:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-11T23:03:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-12T21:13:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-12T21:13:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T14:46:00+00:00** 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/2524377d-7bd1-41f0-bfa7-0e8ccb5a8472`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).