---
type: "Bill"
title: "Government Employment Amendments"
description: "Government Employment Amendments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ut"
legislature: "Utah Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 404"
citation: "Utah HB 404 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Department of Government Operations", "Division of Human Resource Management", "Government Operations (State Issues)", "Independent Entities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gricius, Stephanie"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-03T23:57:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-26T15:05:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ef03818c-564d-4dba-bde3-bbfbb540ecce"
source_url: "https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0404.html"
source_hash: "8ea4c7be17523457e739682105c9d8e25bb806377549791f7859c2ef3388ead5"
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 404 (2025) — Government Employment 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/HB0404.xml)
2. **Comparison to Sub #0** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/CP HB0404 To HB0404S01.pdf)
3. **House Committee Report** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/comreport/HB404H10.pdf)
4. **House Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB404H10.pdf)
5. **Senate Transmittal Letter 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/transmit/HB404S10.pdf)
6. **Substitute #1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/introduced/HB0404S01.xml)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://le.utah.gov/Session/2025/bills/enrolled/HB0404.xml)

## Sponsors

- Gricius, Stephanie — primary (person)
- Winterton, Ronald M. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-03T23:57:00+00:00** Bill Numbered but not Distributed
- **2025-02-03T23:57:00+00:00** Numbered Bill Publicly Distributed
- **2025-02-04T17:00:00+00:00** House/ received bill from Legislative Research `receipt`
- **2025-02-04T18:19:00+00:00** House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-02-07T17:10:00+00:00** House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst `receipt`
- **2025-02-18T17:59:00+00:00** House/ to standing committee `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T15:17:00+00:00** House Comm - Substitute Recommendation
- **2025-02-28T15:18:00+00:00** House Comm - Favorable Recommendation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-28T21:23:00+00:00** House/ comm rpt/ substituted
- **2025-02-28T21:23:00+00:00** House/ 2nd reading
- **2025-03-03T18:46:00+00:00** House/ 3rd reading
- **2025-03-03T18:48:00+00:00** House/ passed 3rd reading `passage`
- **2025-03-03T18:48:00+00:00** House/ to Senate
- **2025-03-03T19:27:00+00:00** Senate/ received from House `receipt`
- **2025-03-03T21:24:00+00:00** Senate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
- **2025-03-08T04:18:00+00:00** Senate/ Rules to 2nd Reading Calendar
- **2025-03-08T06:44:00+00:00** Senate/ 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T06:47:00+00:00** Senate/ passed 2nd & 3rd readings/ suspension
- **2025-03-08T06:47:00+00:00** Senate/ signed by President/ returned to House `passage`
- **2025-03-08T06:47:00+00:00** Senate/ to House
- **2025-03-08T07:03:00+00:00** House/ received from Senate `receipt`
- **2025-03-08T07:03:00+00:00** House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling `passage`
- **2025-03-11T13:49:00+00:00** Bill Received from House for Enrolling
- **2025-03-11T13:50:00+00:00** Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
- **2025-03-14T20:48:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate `enrolled`
- **2025-03-14T20:48:00+00:00** House/ enrolled bill to Printing
- **2025-03-17T16:46:00+00:00** House/ received enrolled bill from Printing `receipt`
- **2025-03-17T16:46:00+00:00** House/ to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-26T15:05:00+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/ef03818c-564d-4dba-bde3-bbfbb540ecce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Utah legislature records).