Utah lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in a special session Tuesday night to strike a controversial new law barring public employees from collective bargaining.

The move came less than a year after Republican legislators narrowly voted to pass it , several months after labor groups broke signature-gathering records as they mounted a referendum effort to repeal the law and only weeks ahead of the Legislature’s 2026 general session.

Under Utah law, a referendum is automatically voided after lawmakers repeal the law it’s challenging. So the question of whether to keep the law will no longer appear alongside the approximately 90 legislative contests on ballots next November.

The bill passed easily in the House of Representatives, with nine of the most conservative Republicans in the body

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