---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Education Hiring Amendments"
description: "Higher Education Hiring Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 282"
citation: "Utah SB 282 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Colleges and Universities", "Education", "Governance", "Higher Education", "Utah Board of Higher Education", "Utah System of Higher Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wilson, Chris H."]
version_count: 8
action_count: 36
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-14T17:04:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-17T15:38:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2f6d8b7-0a8f-4e60-a986-03a24192ac6b"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/SB0282.html"
source_hash: "cab8828a673e62f34b5580ddf8217609cd1592b9dbbac63aaf67b7b2702e6a52"
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 282 (2025) — Higher Education Hiring 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/SB0282.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP SB0282 To SB0282S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB282H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB282H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/SB282S10.pdf)
6. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/SB282S10.pdf)
7. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/SB0282S01.xml)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/SB0282.xml)

## Sponsors

- Wilson, Chris H. — primary (person)
- Fiefia, Doug — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14T17:04:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-14T17:04:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-14T17:32:00+00:00** Senate/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T16:35:00+00:00** Senate/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T17:19:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-18T19:02:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T23:33:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-21T17:23:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-02-24T23:08:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-24T23:10:00+00:00** Senate/ substituted
- **2025-02-24T23:18:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T18:02:00+00:00** Senate/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-25T18:04:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-25T18:04:00+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)
- **2025-02-26T19:07:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-01T00:49:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T17:49:00+00:00** House/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03T17:49:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-05T01:53:00+00:00** House/ 3rd Reading Calendar to Rules
- **2025-03-06T01:22:00+00:00** House/ Rules to 3rd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-07T21:40:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07T21:43:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:43:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ returned to Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-07T21:43:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-07T23:24:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T23:24:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-08T01:41:00+00:00** Bill Received from Senate for Enrolling
- **2025-03-08T01:41:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T03:17:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T03:17:00+00:00** Senate/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T15:02:00+00:00** Governor Signed `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-17T15:38:00+00:00** Senate/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T15:38:00+00:00** Senate/ to Governor `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e2f6d8b7-0a8f-4e60-a986-03a24192ac6b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).