All Roll Calls
Yes: 130 • No: 0
UtahH.B. 1632025 General SessionHouseWALLET
Adult Probation and Parole Amendments
Sponsored By: Burton, Jefferson S.
Signed by Governor
Department of CorrectionsLaw Enforcement and Criminal JusticeProbationParole
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12 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 2 costs, 5 mixed.
Employment can shorten probation or parole
People placed on qualifying probation or parole on or after July 1, 2026, can earn employment-based supervision credits. They can earn up to 30 days off supervision for each month of eligible work. Eligible work requires at least 130 verified hours in a 30-day period. Courts or the parole board can deny early termination for substantial public-safety risks, unfinished required treatment or programs, or unmet guideline criteria. The division must track credits and request termination at least 30 days before the earned end date.
Probation and parole jail limits rise
The law raises the total jail-sanction limit from five to six days within a 30-day period. No more than three days can be consecutive. It removes the department's former response-process authority and five-day language; the division's sanction rules use the six-day cap. Corrections can impose sanctions for guideline violations, and enforcement provisions cover escape prosecution and absconding from supervision. Sanction days served by state probation or parole inmates in county facilities qualify for state reimbursement.
Arrested supervisees transfer to their division
A jail can hold someone on supervised probation or parole for up to 24 hours after certain arrests. The rule covers violent felonies and qualifying domestic violence offenses when supervision status is reasonably available. If the division supervises the person and requests release, the jail must release the person to the division. This is a transfer to supervision, not an unconditional release.
Supervision fees support division programs
The law keeps the $30 monthly probation and parole supervision fee and directs its revenue to a dedicated General Fund credit. That money pays collection costs and supports supervision program development. The division can waive or suspend fees for substantial hardship or when a person owes restitution, using criteria set by rule. Effective May 7, 2025, the law repeals the former section titled “Offender supervision dedicated credits.”
Probation staff retain targeted work exemptions
Division employees are exempt from the applicable licensing requirement when providing probation services as part of their normal duties. The exemption does not cover other work. The law also includes division officers employed by Corrections who served on or before July 1, 1993, as law enforcement officers.
Victims receive domestic violence supervision notices
Providers supervising someone on probation for domestic violence must immediately report new domestic violence offenses and covered violations to the court. These include failure to follow court conditions or a sentencing protective order. Providers must make reasonable, good-faith efforts to notify victims promptly, including mailing notice to their last-known address. Separately, the division must notify prosecutors in advance when seeking changes to decisions from covered important criminal-justice hearings.
Dedicated treatment funding for sex offenses
The division must use 15% of the Sexually Explicit Business and Escort Service Fund for outpatient treatment. Services are for people convicted of covered sexual offenses who are not currently in jail or prison. The law does not state the fund's total amount or a payment per person.
More treatment options for some parolees
The division monitors the status of parolees with a mental condition. Corrections can arrange their treatment through agency contracts, local mental health authorities, other public or private providers, or in-house staff. This expands treatment delivery options but does not create a new individual treatment entitlement or payment amount.
Division reports crime-related profit order violations
The division must tell the Board of Pardons and Parole about alleged violations of covered profit-related orders. These orders bar a parolee from earning money through activity related to their criminal conduct. The reporting rule does not set a new penalty or payment.
Supervision records access keeps specific safeguards
Supervising entities can use a probationer's or parolee's actual address when needed for supervision. Mailed written communications must still go to the person's assigned address. Division and local probation or parole officers can access necessary database information only for people they directly supervise. That access remains subject to existing legal requirements.
New division oversees probation and parole
Utah creates a Division of Adult Probation and Parole within the Department of Corrections, with an appointed director. It supervises people with felony convictions, covered class A misdemeanors, and people accepted through the interstate supervision compact. It also handles state-supervised probation, court-ordered home confinement, court notices, and responses to violations. The division carries out existing supervision and presentence investigation standards.
Iron County facility sale carries obligations
The law sets a $2 million price for Utah's interest in the Iron County Correction Facility. This includes $1.55 million cash and 10 years of Corrections office space valued at $450,000. Iron County must contract to house 15 state prisoners for at least five years, drawn from beds already contracted elsewhere. Corrections cannot increase its total prisoners housed in county facilities under state contracts. If the division declines the office space, the county owes no payment for its estimated rental value.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Burton, Jefferson S.
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
Brady Brammer
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 2/20/2025
Senate/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 21 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ passed 2nd reading
Yes: 19 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/19/2025
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 2/13/2025
Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 5 • No: 0
House vote • 2/10/2025
House/ passed 3rd reading
Yes: 74 • No: 0
House vote • 1/30/2025
House Comm - Favorable Recommendation
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ circled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • Unknown
Senate/ uncircled
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Governor Signed
3/25/2025House/ to Governor
2/25/2025HouseHouse/ received enrolled bill from Printing
2/25/2025HouseHouse/ enrolled bill to Printing
2/24/2025HouseEnrolled Bill Returned to House or Senate
2/24/2025Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared
2/24/2025Bill Received from House for Enrolling
2/24/2025House/ signed by Speaker/ sent for enrolling
2/20/2025HouseHouse/ received from Senate
2/20/2025HouseSenate/ to House
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ signed by President/ returned to House
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ passed 3rd reading
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ 3rd reading
2/20/2025SenateSenate/ passed 2nd reading
2/19/2025SenateSenate/ uncircled
2/19/2025SenateSenate/ circled
2/19/2025SenateSenate/ 2nd reading
2/19/2025SenateSenate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar
2/14/2025SenateSenate/ committee report favorable
2/14/2025SenateSenate Comm - Favorable Recommendation
2/13/2025SenateSenate/ to standing committee
2/13/2025SenateSenate/ 1st reading (Introduced)
2/10/2025SenateSenate/ received from House
2/10/2025SenateHouse/ to Senate
2/10/2025HouseHouse/ passed 3rd reading
2/10/2025House
Bill Text
Enrolled
2/24/2025
Substitute #1
1/16/2025
Introduced
1/9/2025