---
type: "Bill"
title: "Earned Wage Access Services Act"
description: "Earned Wage Access Services Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 279"
citation: "Utah HB 279 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business", "Financial Institutions", "Labor and Employment", "Wages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maloy, A. Cory"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 35
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-01-20T20:19:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T00:41:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e86e6ab-33bf-4451-ac44-f1a2271f0631"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0279.html"
source_hash: "486f56beb9070a2c32dc94456514384ff057831ed9d739789db078c7870cbd0d"
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 279 (2025) — Earned Wage Access Services Act

## 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/HB0279.xml)
2. **Amended 2/18/2025 14:02:415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AV_HB0279S02_2025-02-18_14-26-29.pdf)
3. **Amended Excerpts 2/18/2025 14:02:415** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/AP_HB0279S02_2025-02-18_14-26-29.pdf)
4. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0279 To HB0279S01.pdf)
5. **Comparison to Sub #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0279S01 To HB0279S02.pdf)
6. **House Amendment 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/amended/HB0279S02.Hamd.1.pdf)
7. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB279H10.pdf)
8. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB279H10.pdf)
9. **Senate Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB279S10.pdf)
10. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB279S10.pdf)
11. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0279S01.xml)
12. **Substitute #2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0279S02.xml)
13. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0279.xml)

## Sponsors

- Maloy, A. Cory — primary (person)
- Wilson, Chris H. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-20T20:19:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-01-20T20:19:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-01-21T15:52:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-01-27T16:59:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-01-29T19:21:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T22:40:00+00:00** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2025-02-13T21:00:00+00:00** House Comm - Not Considered
- **2025-02-18T17:02:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-18T17:02:00+00:00** House Comm - Amendment Recommendation `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-18T17:04:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18T21:11:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted/ amended `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-18T21:11:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-02-24T22:09:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24T22:12:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-02-24T22:12:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-02-25T15:02:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-02-25T17:22:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-26T21:51:00+00:00** Senate/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T15:18:00+00:00** Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:45:00+00:00** Senate/ committee report favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:45:00+00:00** Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-05T03:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T03:27:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-05T03:27:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-05T03:27:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-05T15:58:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-05T15:58:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-05T18:08:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-05T18:08:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-13T15:13:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-13T15:13:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-13T15:53:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-13T15:53:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T00:41:00+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/0e86e6ab-33bf-4451-ac44-f1a2271f0631`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).