---
type: "Bill"
title: "Line-of-Duty Death Benefit Amendments"
description: "Line-of-Duty Death Benefit Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 255"
citation: "Utah SB 255 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice", "Peace Officers", "Public Employees Insurance and Benefits", "Public Employees' Health Program", "Public Retirement and Insurance", "Public Safety", "Public Safety Retirement", "Utah Retirement Systems (URS)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Owens, Derrin R."]
version_count: 12
action_count: 43
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-10T23:07:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T14:20:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c98f93c9-2ec0-4d06-b758-e7688bfda873"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0255.html"
source_hash: "2d4e5c09d6c2c55c6a9b7cea39d3d8d9c014a662a098115552b5387d7032c9b6"
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 255 (2025) — Line-of-Duty Death Benefit Amendments

## 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/SB0255.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0255 To SB0255S01.pdf)
3. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0255S01 To SB0255S02.pdf)
4. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB255H10.pdf)
5. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB255H10.pdf)
6. **House Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB255H20.pdf)
7. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB255S10.pdf)
8. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB255S10.pdf)
9. **Senate Transmittal Letter 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB255S20.pdf)
10. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0255S01.xml)
11. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0255S02.xml)
12. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0255.xml)

## Sponsors

- Owens, Derrin R. — primary (person)
- Welton, Douglas — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10T23:07:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-10T23:07:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-11T14:43:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-11T18:27:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T16:17:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T19:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T15:15:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-20T15:19:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-20T17:59:00+00:00** Senate/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-20T17:59:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-24T22:35:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-24T22:38:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T17:43:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T17:46:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T17:46:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-02-25T19:20:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T21:08:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-27T18:17:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T15:55:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-03-03T15:56:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T21:30:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-03-03T21:30:00+00:00** House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact
- **2025-03-07T17:23:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T17:23:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-08T03:21:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-08T03:24:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-08T03:24:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T04:48:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T04:48:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar
- **2025-03-08T04:53:00+00:00** Senate/ concurs with House amendment `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-08T04:53:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T05:25:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T05:25:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-08T05:25:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-08T07:10:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T07:10:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-11T14:52:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-11T14:52:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T20:39:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T20:39:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:27:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19T14:20:00+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/c98f93c9-2ec0-4d06-b758-e7688bfda873`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).