UtahH.B. 1672025 General SessionHouse

Offender Reintegration Amendments

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Fairer public job interviews for applicants

Public employers cannot deny an initial interview because of past or expunged convictions, juvenile adjudications, or arrests for offenses committed before age 18. Exceptions apply when federal, state, or local law requires the employer to consider that history. Listed employers are also exempt, including law enforcement, criminal or juvenile justice employers, and employers working with children or vulnerable adults. The protection covers the initial interview, not a right to a job.

Older convictions count less in licensing

Utah’s professional licensing division cannot use some older convictions as evidence under a conviction-based unprofessional conduct rule. The cutoff drops from seven years to more than five years, measured from incarceration’s end to the division’s review. Exceptions include later criminal conduct resulting in another conviction or a specified plea. Certain violent, sexual, fraud, or embezzlement felonies also remain exceptions. So do crimes or patterns the director identifies by rule as posing substantial potential harm to Utah patients or consumers.

Better service connections for people returning home

County justice councils must plan reentry goals and connections to housing, jobs, mental health care, substance-use treatment, and related help. Plans cover county residents on probation or parole, leaving jail or prison, or in state juvenile justice custody. Local mental health authorities must coordinate with Utah corrections, when feasible, to keep probation and parole residents connected to care. Corrections may adopt technology that, where possible, securely shares records, sends referral notices, tracks referrals, and records services and results. These coordination duties do not guarantee any person a specific service.

New funding helps people leaving prison

The law creates a Utah corrections reentry fund, effective upon the governor’s approval. It provides a one-time $2 million for July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026—not household payments. Permitted uses include education, job and life skills, apprenticeships, job placement, housing help, health care, substance-use treatment, and caseworkers before or after release. The fund accepts donations, grants, gifts, bequests, other money for its purposes, and interest. Spending requires legislative approval and can cover actual department administrative costs.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

Clancy, Tyler
Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

Stephanie Pitcher
Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 210 • No: 0

House vote • 2/21/2025

House/ concurs with Senate amendment

Yes: 68 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/20/2025

Senate/ passed 3rd reading

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/19/2025

Senate/ floor amendment

Yes: 0 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/19/2025

Senate/ passed 2nd reading

Yes: 19 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/13/2025

Senate Comm - Substitute Recommendation

Yes: 6 • No: 0

Senate vote • 2/13/2025

Senate Comm - Favorable Recommendation

Yes: 7 • No: 0

House vote • 2/4/2025

House/ passed 3rd reading

Yes: 71 • No: 0

House vote • 1/24/2025

House Comm - Substitute Recommendation

Yes: 9 • No: 0