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2025 Utah legislative session
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| 2025 Utah legislative session |
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| General information |
| Scheduled session start: January 21, 2025 Scheduled session end: March 7, 2025 |
| Leadership |
| Senate President Stuart Adams (R) House Speaker |
| Elections |
| Next Election: November 3, 2026 Last Election: November 5, 2024 |
| Previous legislative sessions |
| 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 |
| Other 2025 legislative sessions |
In 2025, the Utah State Legislature was scheduled to convene on January 21 and adjourn on March 7.
The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Republicans won a 23-6 majority in the Senate and a 61-14 majority in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Republican state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, Utah was one of 20 state legislatures where Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.
Leadership in 2025
Utah State Senate
- Senate president: Stuart Adams (R)
- Majority leader: Kirk Cullimore (R)
- Minority leader: Luz Escamilla (D)
Utah House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House: Mike Schultz (R)
- Majority leader: Jefferson Moss (R)
- Minority leader: Angela Romero (D)
Partisan control in 2025
- See also: State government trifectas
Utah was one of 23 Republican state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.
Utah was also one of 20 state legislatures where Republicans had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.
The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the Utah State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.
Utah State Senate
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 6 | |
| Republican Party | 23 | |
| Total | 29 | |
Utah House of Representatives
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 14 | |
| Republican Party | 61 | |
| Total | 75 | |
Regular session
The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.
Legislation trackers
- See also: Legislation Trackers
Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:
Standing legislative committees
A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 29 standing committees in Utah's state government, including two joint legislative committees, 12 state Senate committees, and 15 state House committees.
Joint legislative committees
Senate committees
- Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee
- Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee
- Senate Business and Labor Committee
- Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- Senate Education Committee
- Senate Ethics Committee
- Senate Health and Human Services Committee
- Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- Senate Retirement and Independent Entities Committee
- Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
- Senate Rules Committee
- Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
House committees
- Government Operations Committee
- House Business and Labor Committee
- House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- House Education Committee
- House Ethics Committee
- House Health and Human Services Committee
- House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- House Retirement and Independent Entities Committee
- House Revenue and Taxation Committee
- House Rules Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee
- Political Subdivisions Committee
- Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
- Transportation Committee
Legislatively referred constitutional amendments
In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.
The methods by which the Utah Constitution can be amended:
The Utah Constitution provides two mechanisms for amending the state's constitution— a legislative process, and a state constitutional convention. Utah requires a simple majority vote (50% plus 1) for voters to approve constitutional amendments.
Legislature
According to Article XXIII, the state Legislature can refer constitutional amendments to the ballot for voters to decide. A two-thirds majority vote in both the legislative chambers vote is required during one legislative session for the Utah State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 50 votes in the Utah House of Representatives and 20 votes in the Utah State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
Convention
According to Section 2 of Article XXIII, a ballot question about whether to hold a convention can go on the ballot if two-thirds of the members of the Utah State Legislature vote to put it on the ballot.
Historical partisan control
The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of Utah.
Utah Party Control: 1992-2024
No Democratic trifectas • Thirty-three years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
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| Governor | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| Senate | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
| House | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R |
Historical Senate control
Republicans won control of the Utah State Senate in 1978. In 2024, they won a 23-6 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Utah Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Utah State Senate election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 11 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| Republicans | 18 | 19 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 22 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 21 | 23 |
Historical House control
Republicans won control of the Utah House of Representatives in 1976. In 2024, they won a 61-14 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Utah House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Utah House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 26 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 19 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 17 | 14 | 14 |
| Republicans | 49 | 55 | 55 | 54 | 51 | 56 | 56 | 55 | 53 | 59 | 61 | 62 | 62 | 58 | 58 | 61 | 61 |
Analysis
Adopted legislation, 2011-2024
- See also: The State Legislative Decade - Utah
In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.
See also
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Footnotes
