Public Employee Retaliatory Action Amendments

HB 73 amends Utah's Public Employee Retaliatory Action law to specifically prohibit state employers from making complaints to professional licensing boards against employees who report wrongdoing. This directly protects public employees (including whistleblowers) from retaliation that could threaten their professional licenses. The key change adds "making a complaint to a licensing body" to the list of prohibited retaliatory actions, alongside dismissal or pay cuts. The law now explicitly covers situations where an employer tries to use licensing authorities to punish an employee for reporting issues.