legislative summary 2014 - salt lake county
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Legislative Summary
2014
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Compiled and Available Through:
THE SALT LAKE COUNTY COUNCIL OFFICE
District 1 – Arlyn Bradshaw
District 2 – Michael Jensen, Chair
District 3 – Aimee Winder Newton
District 4 – Sam Granato
District 5 – Steve DeBry
District 6 – Max Burdick
At Large A – Randy Horiuchi
At Large B – Richard Snelgrove
At Large C – Jim Bradley
County Mayor Ben McAdams
Legislative Director Director of Government Relations Kara Trevino and Senior Advisor to the Mayor
Jeremy Keele
Legislative Assistant Alejandro Puy
With Special Thanks to:
Members of the Sixtieth Legislature Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst Legislative Research and General Counsel Utah Association of Counties
And
Salt Lake County Elected Officials, Administrators, and Employees
Salt Lake County Council Office 2001 S. State Street N2200
Salt Lake City, UT 84119 Phone: 385.468.7463
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
2014 Salt Lake County Legislative Priorities…………………….….3
2014 Salt Lake County Tracker……………………………………………9
2014 UAC Tracking Sheet…………………………………………………..15
Appropriations…………………………………………………………………. 20
House Bills and Resolutions……………………………………………….22
Senate Bills and Resolutions………………………………………………41
SJR 20 Master Study Resolution..……………………………………….54
General References……………………………………………………………78
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2014 SALT LAKE COUNTY
LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
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2014 Salt Lake County Priorities
1st Sub. HB 356 - New Convention Hotel Development Incentive Provisions (Wilson, B.) – Passed
Second time was the charm for this repeat bill from the 2013 session, which was narrowly defeated in the waning hours of the session last year. This year, the bill sponsors and the County worked hard to broker a compromise with the main opposition group – the existing hotel community – that resulted in an $8.4 million mitigation fund being established out of the tax proceeds generated by the new hotel. Existing hotels that can prove a negative impact to their business during the first few years of occupancy of the convention center hotel can apply to the fund for reimbursement of those losses so long as they are directly attributable to the new hotel opening up.
The 2014 legislation included a few other notable changes from 2013, including a dollar cap on
the State’s portion of the incentive ($75 million over 20 years), and a provision that captures property and other local taxes from the hotel site for the incentive. In addition, the bill establishes a tourism marketing and promotion fund (the “Stay Another Day and Bounce-Back Fund”), which is funded out of the tax proceeds generated from the site of the hotel and which will be used to market and promote the entire State of Utah to convention delegates visiting Salt Lake. The initiative is an attempt to get more delegates to tack on an extra day or two to their convention visit, or to “bounce back” to the State with their friends and family within the following year.
A hotel is eligible to receive the incentive if it meets the following criteria:
• Is a full service hotel. • Must be built after July 1, 2014 • Includes at least 85 square feet of convention and meeting space per guest room. • Is located within 1,000 feet of a convention center. • Includes at least $200 million of private investment.
The public contribution is a post-performance incentive to a private owner of the convention
center hotel thus the public will not have ownership of the hotel. The bill outlines that the public incentive may only be used for the construction of convention, exhibit or meeting space within the qualified hotel, and the acquisition or construction of related amenities, fixtures, or other improvements.
3rd Sub. SB 216 - Political Subdivisions Revisions (Mayne, K.) – Passed
This bill addresses the future of Salt Lake County’s unincorporated area. It is a compromise worked out during the legislative session between the County, the cities and the various community groups representing unincorporated Salt Lake County. With a handful of listed exceptions, the bill effectively freezes the boundaries of existing townships in unincorporated SL County until November 2015. It requires that the County establish an advisory committee with representation from all of the unincorporated areas to study issues of governance, service delivery and taxation. Prior to the next legislative session, the County, with input from the advisory committee, will study these issues and work on crafting consensus legislation that will be run in the 2015 legislative session, which would likely put the option of incorporations by some of the townships on the ballot in November 2015.
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The 2014 legislation also authorizes the County to form a municipal services sales tax district. Participation in the district would be voluntary (any newly incorporated city could opt out through city council resolution within six months of incorporation). The municipal services district model would allow communities to continue to benefit from low-cost, high quality services delivered by a regional service provider while still allowing those communities to retain their cultural identity and incorporate into their own distinct cities, if they so choose.
The original bill would have allowed the entire unincorporated area to incorporate as one non-contiguous city which has its own city council, the county mayor is the city executive officer, and city administrative and operational functions are provided by the county. This option was well received by certain community groups and disliked by others. The third substitute bill that passed the legislature was seen by nearly all as a compromise piece of legislation that paves the way for final resolution of the decades-long disputes over unincorporated County as early as November 2015.
HB 83 - Local Government Residential Reimbursement Authority Act (Anderson, J.) – Failed
This bill authorizes, in a county of the first class, cities and the county to create a reimbursement fund to assist certain homeowners to fix title problems on their homes. In the 1970’s, some developers created housing developments which, rather than granting title in fee simple to the owners, vested it in multi-family condominiums, some of which consisted of a homeowners’ association of only two residential units. This creates difficulty for home owners to refinance or sell their homes. The legislation would have allowed the County to partner up with cities to establish a reimbursement fund for homeowners within certain delineated neighborhoods to apply for reimbursement for certain eligible expenses associated with subdividing their properties. It was contemplated that the interlocal agreement between the County and any participating city would require that a lien be placed on any property holder receiving reimbursement from the fund and that the reimbursement would need to be repaid by the home owner upon refinance or sale of the home in the future.
The bill was well received by both House and Senate committees and sailed through the House floor vote on the consent calendar. Unfortunately, however, the bill ran out of time on the last night of the session and never got a full hearing on the floor of the Senate. This is likely a bill we will attempt to run again next year.
1st Sub. HB 155 - Utah Communication Agency Network and Utah 911 Committee Amendments (Dee, B.) - Passed
This bill merges the Utah Communications Agency Network and the Utah 911 Committee into a single authority, titled the Utah Communications Authority. It establishes a Computer Aided Dispatch Restricted Account and considers creation of statewide 911 contracts and computer aided dispatch systems. This bill was a priority for Salt Lake County and many of the cities and local districts in the County. It stipulates that in SL County 911 fees received by the State will be used to pay for a single computer aided dispatch system that is selected by the County’s two public safety answering points (SLC and VECC). Decision-making process for selecting the software provider in SL County isn’t specified in
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the statute, although there was a general understanding among stakeholders that there would be some sort of a procurement process to select the software provider.
HB 96 - Utah School Readiness Initiative (Hughes, G.) – Passed
This bill creates the School Readiness Board which provides grants to certain early childhood education programs and may enter into contracts with private entities to provide funding for early childhood education programs for at risk students. It is an expansion of the County’s pilot program providing quality curriculum to 600 pre-K students from at-risk backgrounds. The program will be funded through the same results based financing mechanism that the County relied on for the pilot program. Goldman Sachs and the JB Pritzker Foundation front money to expand successful pre-K programming. If the programming achieves the desired outcome of getting at-risk kids reading at grade level and therefore not in need of special educational resources provided by the State and the school districts, then the State will repay the private investment to Goldman and Pritzker. The County was very supportive of this measure and worked to educate legislators about the importance of the curriculum as well as the potential of the financing mechanism. The Eagle Forum was the most outspoken opponent of the legislation and its members lobbied the legislature hard to oppose the bill.
SB 60 - Fuel Excise Tax Amendments (Valentine, J) – Failed
This bill reduces the gas tax to 14 cents and replaces the 10.5 cent reduction with a percentage-based fee on fuel. Initially the measure would be revenue neutral, but mitigates decline in buying power of per gallon tax and will grow with inflation. The bill passed out of the Senate but then failed in the House in the last day or two of the session. The legislation did not attract opposition from the low income advocacy groups the way HB 135 did because the percentage tax is on the sale of gasoline (as opposed to other consumer sales, like groceries) and was seen by many in the transportation community as a more politically viable approach to limiting the declining buying power of the cents per gallon gas tax. The bill sponsor retained 14 cents per gallon in order to hedge against volatility in the price of gas and the possibility that revenues might decline in the event of a period of sustained low gas prices.
HB 135 - Transportation Funding Amendments (Anderson, J.) - Failed
This bill would have replaced the cents per gallon gas tax on motor fuel (not diesel and other special fuels) with a .26% increase in State general sales tax. The sales tax rate would then fluctuate every year based on the prior year’s cost of highway maintenance and construction. The bill was an attempt to solve the problem in the current cents per gallon fuel tax that results in a declining revenue stream to the State and local governments based on underlying inflation in the economy as well as increased fuel efficiency of modern cars. The bill failed in the House Transportation Committee (3-6-2), however, when low income advocates in particular opposed it, saying that the measure would significantly harm low income individuals on a fixed budget for whom spending on groceries, home supplies and other taxable items constitute a large percentage of their discretionary income. Car dealerships were also opposed to the measure.
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1st Sub. HB 344 - Incorporation Election Amendments (Cox, J.) – Passed
This bill authorizes a county to hold a local special election on the proposed incorporation of a city or town. The special election could be on the June primary day or the November election day, and could be in either even or odd numbered years. The County legislative team worked hard to ensure that the bill was permissive and not prescriptive – i.e., that it would give the County the option of holding the special election but not requiring it.
HB 388 - Amendments to Transportation Funding (Anderson, J.) – Failed
This bill authorizes counties to go to referendum for an additional .25% sales tax to transit. It was nicknamed, “quarter for clean air.” The new 25% sales tax cannot be used for rail infrastructure in SL County but could in other counties where rail is a priority. The restriction in SL County was a priority for the bill sponsor who believes that the current rail network in SL County is sufficient whereas bus service is lacking. The bill was not expected by many to get as far as it did. Perhaps because of particularly bad inversions during the early part of the session the bill sailed through House Committee and the House floor but then died on the last night of the session when it received some criticism in a Senate Caucus meeting. A broad coalition of supporters pushed the legislation, including local governments, regional planning groups, the business community, UTA and others.
HB 398 – Planning District Amendments (King, B.) – Failed
This bill authorizes the creation and governance of a mountainous planning district. In a county of the 1st class, the governing body may establish an area in the foothills, canyons and mountains which permits the appointment of a separate planning commission to oversee all land use within the mountain and canyon area. The qualifications for mountain planning area status are: the area is primarily used for recreational purposes; it is used equally by all residents of the county, including city residents; and it has less than 5% of the county population. A mountain planning area may include all or part of a city or town. Land within the designated mountain area may not be incorporated. Land within the mountain planning commission area may be annexed into a municipality, but the planning commission area is not reduced in size and the mountain planning commission still retains land use authority within the land annexed. The County team opted to hold the bill and not bring it to committee based on very stiff resistance.
SB 61 - Revisions to Property Tax (Henderson, D.) – Passed
This bill amends the requirements for imposing a property tax levy that exceeds the certified tax rate. This legislation makes a distinction between calendar year taxing entities and “county executive calendar year taxing entities”. A county executive calendar year taxing entity is defined as a county that operates under the county executive-council form of government.
This bill would require a county executive calendar taxing entity that intends to exceed the certified tax rate for the next fiscal year to disclose this intent during a public meeting at least two weeks prior to the general election. There are two additional disclosure requirements that would occur
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after the general election. One of the disclosure requirements is new and would require that the county provide notice by mail of the proposed tax increase to each property owner at least 14 days prior to the public hearing during which the annual budget is adopted. The second requirement is in current law and would require the county to disclose the tax increase in ¼ page newspaper ads.
This legislation also eliminates the August truth in tax public hearing but in tax increase years backs up our budget process one week.
1st Sub. HB 156 – Election Day Voter Registration Pilot Project (Chavez-Houck, R.) – Passed
This bill allows counties and municipalities to apply to participate in a limited pilot program to test whether election-day voter registration will work in that jurisdiction. A similar bill was narrowly defeated last legislative session on the basis of concerns among many county clerks that the measure would create chaos and a huge administrative burden for county election officials on Election Day. The bill sponsor and other voter advocacy groups worked during the interim to educate legislators and others that those concerns were likely exaggerated and that the program works well in other jurisdictions where it has been implemented. This session, a compromise was developed to establish an opt-in pilot program to try the model out. It is believed that if the pilot project is successful that same-day registration may eventually be expanded statewide.
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2014 COUNTY TRACKER
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Ande
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1st S
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B 83
Loca
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Resid
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meo
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Fa
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Supp
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1st S
ub H
B 84
Sc
hool
Dist
rict
Amen
dmen
tsCr
aig,
Hal
lHa
rper
, Way
ne
This
bill
prov
ides
that
a q
ualif
ying
city
or i
nter
loca
l agr
eem
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artic
ipan
t may
no
t sub
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for v
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w sc
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feas
ibili
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that
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reve
nue
of th
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w sc
hool
dist
rict
exce
eds t
he c
ost b
y m
ore
than
5%
.
Faile
dSu
ppor
t
HB 8
8Au
tism
Pro
gram
Am
endm
ents
Men
love
, Rh
onda
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ble,
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tis
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he D
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of H
ealth
to m
ake
the
prog
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for t
he tr
eatm
ent o
f qua
lifie
d ch
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n w
ith a
utism
spec
trum
diso
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(ASD
) per
man
ent a
nd re
quire
s Pub
lic
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oyee
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ranc
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nefit
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gram
to e
stab
lish
an o
ngoi
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rogr
am fo
r th
e tr
eatm
ent o
f qua
lifie
d ch
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n w
ith A
SD.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
HB 9
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tah
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tiativ
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Greg
, Hug
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pro
vide
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child
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catio
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for e
arly
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ldho
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duca
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prog
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s for
at r
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ts.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
HB 9
7
Lim
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Loc
al
Gove
rnm
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latio
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King
, Bria
nO
kerlu
nd,
Ralp
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This
bill
proh
ibits
a m
unic
ipal
ity fr
om e
nact
ing
or e
nfor
cing
a b
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spec
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rule
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stab
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ta
sk fo
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and
requ
ires t
he ta
sk fo
rce
to m
ake
reco
mm
enda
tions
and
pre
sent
a
final
repo
rt.
Faile
dSu
ppor
t
10th
Sub
HB
112
Regu
latio
n of
El
ectr
onic
Ci
gare
ttes
Paul
, Ray
Chris
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selli
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turin
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subs
tanc
es w
ithou
t a
licen
se fr
om th
e De
pt. o
f Hea
lth.
Proh
ibits
adv
ertis
ing
that
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s hel
p an
indi
vidu
al st
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toba
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Allo
ws t
he D
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of H
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to re
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Faile
dSu
ppor
t
1st S
ub H
B 12
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ntin
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ucat
ion
on
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ory,
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quire
s tha
t a c
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pres
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tive
atte
nd fe
dera
lism
trai
ning
Pa
ssed
Opp
osed
1st S
ub H
B 15
5
Uta
h Co
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atio
n Ag
ency
Net
wor
k an
d U
tah
911
Com
mitt
ee
Amen
dmen
ts
Dee,
Bra
dAd
ams,
Stu
art
This
bill
mak
es c
hang
es to
the
Uta
h Co
mm
unic
atio
ns A
genc
y N
etw
ork
and
the
Uta
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, com
bini
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em in
to o
ne e
ntity
kno
wn
as th
e U
tah
Com
mun
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ions
Aut
horit
y. It
con
tem
plat
es c
reat
ion
of st
atew
ide
911
cont
ract
s an
d co
mpu
ter a
ided
disp
atch
syst
ems.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
HB 1
88Co
urt S
ecur
ity
Revi
sions
Dee,
Bra
dJe
nkin
s, S
cott
This
bill
spec
ifies
that
the
stat
e co
urt a
dmin
istra
tor s
hall
ente
r int
o a
cont
ract
w
ith th
e co
unty
sher
iff a
nd p
ay th
e co
sts f
or b
ailif
fs a
nd b
uild
ing
secu
rity
offic
ers.
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mov
es th
e le
gisla
tive
cap
on a
mou
nts p
aid
for t
hat p
urpo
se a
nd
shift
s res
pons
ibili
ty fr
om th
e co
untie
s to
the
stat
e co
urt a
dmin
istra
tor f
or c
osts
re
late
d to
secu
rity
adm
inist
ratio
n, su
perv
ision
, tra
vel,
equi
pmen
t, an
d tr
aini
ng
of b
ailif
fs.
Faile
dSu
ppor
t
HB 2
42Fe
es fo
r Go
vern
men
t Re
cord
s Req
uest
sKi
ng, B
rian
This
bill
wou
ld re
quire
a g
over
nmen
tal e
ntity
to p
rovi
de re
cord
s req
uest
ed
unde
r GRA
MA
free
of c
harg
e if
it is
dete
rmin
ed th
e re
leas
e “b
enef
its th
e pu
blic
ra
ther
than
a p
erso
n.”
Faile
dO
ppos
e
HB 2
44Vo
ting
And
Vote
r Re
gist
ratio
n Am
endm
ents
Ande
regg
, Ja
cob
This
bill
will
requ
ire e
very
indi
vidu
al w
ho w
ants
to v
ote
in a
stat
e or
loca
l el
ectio
n to
pro
vide
pro
of o
f U.S
. citi
zens
hip
(tha
t mea
ns a
cop
y of
a p
assp
ort o
r bi
rth
cert
ifica
te) t
o th
e Dr
iver
’s L
icen
se D
ivisi
on o
r the
Cou
nty
Cler
k’s O
ffice
. The
co
unty
cle
rks a
re re
quire
d to
mai
ntai
n a
copy
of t
he p
roof
of c
itize
nshi
p fo
r ev
ery
vote
r. If
the
vote
r doe
s not
pro
vide
pro
of o
f citi
zens
hip,
they
will
onl
y be
al
low
ed to
vot
e a
ballo
t for
fede
ral r
aces
.
Faile
dO
ppos
e
3 of
5
2nd
Sub
HB 2
45St
ate
Fire
Cod
e Am
endm
ents
Dunn
igan
, Ja
mes
Br
ambl
e, C
urtis
This
bill
amen
ds th
e St
ate
Cons
truc
tion
and
Fire
Cod
es A
ct. I
t add
s an
exce
ptio
n to
the
requ
irem
ent t
hat a
n au
tom
atic
sprin
kler
syst
em b
e in
stal
led
in c
erta
in fi
re
area
s. T
his b
ill a
llow
s cou
ntie
s of t
he fi
rst c
lass
to re
gula
te fi
rew
orks
with
in
tow
nshi
ps. U
ninc
orpo
rate
d ar
eas o
utsid
e of
tow
nshi
ps w
ill b
e un
der t
he c
ontr
ol
of th
e st
ate
fore
ster
in c
onsu
ltatio
n w
ith th
e lo
cal f
ire a
utho
rity.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
1st S
ub H
B 25
2Ab
sent
ee B
allo
t Am
endm
ents
Bird
, Jim
Requ
ires a
ll ci
ties w
ithin
Sal
t Lak
e Co
unty
that
cho
ose
to c
ondu
ct a
n el
ectio
n by
m
ail t
o al
so p
rovi
de a
n el
ectio
n da
y vo
ting
cent
er.
Requ
ires a
n ad
ditio
nal
elec
tion
day
votin
g ce
nter
for e
very
100
,000
resid
ents
with
in th
e ju
risdi
ctio
n.Fa
iled
Neu
tral
2nd
Sub
HB 2
58M
unic
ipal
Bus
ines
s Li
cens
ing
Amen
dmen
ts
Ande
regg
, Ja
cob
Proh
ibits
a c
ity fr
om re
quiri
ng a
lice
nse
for c
erta
in b
usin
esse
s. P
rohi
bits
a c
ity
from
shar
ing
any
info
rmat
ion
with
the
coun
ty re
gard
ing
a bu
sines
s tha
t is n
ot
requ
ired
to b
e lic
ense
d.Fa
iled
Opp
ose
2nd
Sub
HB 2
62Lo
cal G
over
ning
Bo
dy V
otin
g Am
endm
ents
Pow
ell,
Krai
gSh
ioza
wa,
Bria
nRe
quire
s a m
ajor
ity v
ote
of th
e to
tal n
umbe
r of v
otin
g m
embe
rs o
f a c
ity c
ounc
il to
pas
s an
ordi
nanc
e or
reso
lutio
n. I
t onl
y ap
plie
s to
citie
s and
cla
rifie
s tha
t you
m
ust h
ave
a m
ajor
ity v
ote
in th
e af
firm
ativ
e to
pas
s som
ethi
ng.
Pass
edO
ppos
e
HB 3
39Co
unty
Bud
get
Amen
dmen
tsSe
elig
, Jen
Deid
re,
Hend
erso
n
The
bill
allo
ws t
he c
ount
y to
pro
vide
ass
istan
ce to
priv
ate
ente
rpris
e pr
ojec
ts,
but t
he le
gisla
tive
body
mus
t cre
ate
an o
rdin
ance
est
ablis
hing
stan
dard
s to
eval
uate
such
pro
ject
s, a
nd a
s to
each
pro
ject
it m
ust h
old
hear
ings
and
con
duct
a
stud
y w
ith w
ritte
n fin
ding
s as t
o ho
w th
e pr
ojec
t will
ben
efit
the
coun
ty a
nd it
s re
siden
ts.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
1st S
ub H
B 34
4In
corp
orat
ion
Elec
tion
Amen
dmen
tsCo
x, Jo
nVa
n Ta
ssel
l, Ke
vin
This
bill
auth
orize
s a c
ount
y to
hol
d a
loca
l spe
cial
ele
ctio
n on
the
prop
osed
in
corp
orat
ion
of a
city
or t
own.
The
spec
ial e
lect
ion
coul
d be
on
the
June
pr
imar
y da
y or
the
Nov
embe
r ele
ctio
n da
y an
d co
uld
be in
eith
er e
ven
or o
dd
num
bere
d ye
ars.
Pass
edO
ppos
e
1st S
ub H
B 35
6N
ew C
onve
ntio
n Ho
tel D
evel
opm
ent
Ince
ntiv
e Pr
ovisi
ons
Wils
on, B
rad
Adam
s, S
tuar
t
This
bill
enac
ts th
e N
ew C
onve
ntio
n Fa
cilit
y Ac
t. Th
is in
cent
ive
cons
ists o
f a
refu
nd to
a q
ualif
ied
hote
l ow
ner o
f inc
ome
tax
rem
itted
by
the
hote
l in
an
amou
nt e
qual
to th
e st
ate
sale
s gen
erat
ed b
y th
e qu
alifi
ed h
otel
dur
ing
that
sa
me
perio
d. T
here
is a
dol
lar c
ap o
f &75
mill
ion
on th
e ov
eral
l am
ount
of t
he
stat
e's i
ncen
tive.
The
pub
lic c
ontr
ibut
ion
is a
post
-per
form
ance
ince
ntiv
e to
a
priv
ate
owne
r of t
he c
onve
ntio
n ce
nter
. Pas
sed
the
Hous
e 53
-21-
1 an
d th
e Se
nate
17-
11-1
.
Pass
edN
o po
sitio
n
4 of
5
1st S
ub H
B 38
8Am
endm
ents
to
Tran
spor
tatio
n Fu
ndin
g
Ande
rson
, Jo
hnny
Stev
enso
n,
Jerr
y
This
bill
auth
orize
s cou
ntie
s to
go to
refe
rend
um fo
r an
addi
tiona
l .25
% to
tr
ansit
. It
was
nic
knam
ed, "
quar
ter f
or c
lean
air"
. The
new
.25%
cou
ldn'
t be
used
for r
ail i
nfra
stru
ctur
e. P
asse
d th
e Ho
use
58-1
0-7.
Fa
iled
Neu
tral
1st S
ub H
B 40
4Co
urt S
ecur
ity F
ee
Amen
dmen
tsRa
y, P
aul
Stev
enso
n,
Jerr
y
This
bill
incr
ease
s the
secu
rity
surc
harg
e by
$10
and
incr
ease
s the
am
ount
de
posit
ed in
to th
e st
ate
trea
sure
r's C
ourt
Sec
urity
Acc
ount
from
$8
to $
13. T
his
will
gen
erat
e an
add
ition
al $
3.6
mill
ion
for c
ourt
secu
rity.
Thi
s cov
ers t
he $
1.8
mill
ion
shor
tfal
l the
AO
C pr
ojec
ted
and
incr
ease
s it b
y an
add
ition
al $
1.8
mill
ion.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
1st S
ub H
B 42
2In
itiat
ive
and
Refe
rend
um Im
pact
Di
sclo
sure
Last
, Bra
dAd
ams,
Stu
art
This
bill
requ
ires I
nitia
tive
and
refe
rend
um e
lect
ions
hav
e a
fisc
al a
nd le
gal
impa
ct st
atem
ent.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
5th
Sub
SB 3
6 Vo
ter I
nfor
mat
ion
Amen
dmen
tsM
ayne
, Kar
enPe
rry,
Lee
This
bill
plac
es li
mits
on
who
can
hav
e ac
cess
to v
oter
dat
e of
birt
h, w
hich
is
avai
labl
e on
ly to
the
gove
rnm
ent o
r pol
itica
l par
ties.
A v
oter
can
requ
est h
is or
he
r vot
er re
gist
ratio
n in
form
atio
n be
cla
ssifi
ed a
s 'pr
ivat
e' if
the
vote
r's li
fe o
r sa
fety
is a
t risk
. Th
e Lt
Gov
.'s o
ffice
has
rule
-mak
ing
auth
ority
rega
rdin
g vo
ter
info
rmat
ion
acce
ss, p
roce
dure
s and
stan
dard
s.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
2nd
Sub
SB 5
4El
ectio
ns
Amen
dmen
tsBr
ambl
e,
Curt
isM
cCay
, Dan
iel
This
bill
amen
ds p
rovi
sions
of t
he e
lect
ion
code
rela
ting
to n
omin
atio
n of
ca
ndid
ates
, prim
ary
and
gene
ral e
lect
ions
. Th
is is
the
“Cou
nty
My
Vote
” co
mpr
omise
.Pa
ssed
No
posit
ion
1st S
ub S
B 60
Fuel
Exc
ise T
ax
Amen
dmen
tsVa
lent
ine,
Jo
hnAn
ders
on,
John
ny
This
bill
redu
ces t
he g
as ta
x to
14
cent
s and
repl
aces
the
10.5
cen
t red
uctio
n w
ith a
per
cent
age-
base
d fe
e on
fuel
. In
itial
ly is
reve
nue
neut
ral,
but m
itiga
tes
decl
ine
in b
uyin
g po
wer
of p
er g
allo
n ta
x an
d w
ill g
row
with
infla
tion.
Pas
sed
the
Sena
te 2
6-1-
2.
Faile
dSu
ppor
t
SB 6
1Re
visio
ns to
Pr
oper
ty T
axHe
nder
son,
De
idre
McC
ay, D
anie
lTh
is bi
ll ad
dres
ses p
roce
dure
s and
requ
irem
ents
rela
ted
to im
posin
g a
prop
erty
ta
x in
crea
se fo
r cal
enda
r ent
ities
.Pa
ssed
Supp
ort
SB 7
0St
ate
Data
Por
tal
Amen
dmen
tsHe
nder
son,
De
idre
Elia
son,
Ste
ve
This
bill
dire
cts a
revi
ew o
f exi
stin
g tr
ansp
aren
cy w
ebsit
e in
form
atio
n w
ith a
goa
l of
incr
easin
g ci
tizen
util
ity.
Dire
cts t
he d
evel
opm
ent o
f acc
ess f
or a
ll go
vern
men
tal r
ecor
ds re
ques
ts (G
RAM
A) fo
r sta
te a
nd lo
cal e
ntiti
es, i
nclu
ding
ci
ties,
tow
ns, c
ount
ies a
nd sp
ecia
l dist
ricts
.
Pass
edN
eutr
al
SB 1
19Sa
les a
nd U
se T
ax
Exem
ptio
n Am
endm
ents
Reid
, Stu
art
This
bill
expa
nds a
sale
s and
use
tax
exem
ptio
n fo
r cer
tain
man
ufac
turin
g,
proc
essin
g, p
rodu
cing
, ope
ratin
g or
rese
arch
and
dev
elop
men
t act
iviti
es. F
iscal
no
te:
loca
l tax
ing
entit
ies s
ales
tax
coul
dgo
dow
n by
$2,
566,
000
FY15
, $5
,388
,500
FY1
6. S
tate
impa
ct w
hen
fully
pha
sed
in F
Y 20
19, G
F re
duct
ion
of
$36,
465,
000.
Faile
dO
ppos
e
5 of
5
3rd
Sub
SB 1
20Sh
elte
r Ani
mal
Va
ccin
e Am
endm
ents
Jenk
ins,
Sco
ttGr
eenw
ood,
Ri
char
d
This
bill
requ
ires a
n an
imal
shel
ter t
o es
tabl
ish a
con
sulti
ng re
latio
nshi
p w
ith a
ve
terin
aria
n fo
r tra
inin
g sh
elte
r ani
mal
em
ploy
ees r
egar
ding
pro
per s
tora
ge,
hand
ling,
and
adm
inist
ratio
n of
vac
cina
tions
; exe
mpt
s an
anim
al sh
elte
r op
erat
ing
unde
r the
lice
nse
of a
vet
erin
aria
n fr
om th
e re
quire
men
t to
obta
in a
lic
ense
as a
pha
rmac
y fo
r pur
pose
s of h
andl
ing,
stor
ing,
and
adm
inist
erin
g a
vacc
inat
ion.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
2nd
Sub
SB 1
69Pu
blic
Mee
ting
Mat
eria
ls Re
quire
men
ts
Hend
erso
n,
Deid
reEl
iaso
n, S
teve
Requ
ires c
erta
in p
ublic
bod
ies t
o re
quire
an
indi
vidu
al w
ho p
ublic
ly p
rese
nts
or p
rovi
des e
lect
roni
c in
form
atio
n at
an
open
mee
ting
of th
e pu
blic
bod
y to
pr
ovid
e an
ele
ctro
nic
or h
ard
copy
of t
he e
lect
roni
c in
form
atio
n.Pa
ssed
Supp
ort
SB 1
74Em
erge
ncy
Fisc
al
Proc
edur
es
Coun
ties
Hend
erso
n,
Deid
reHa
ll, C
raig
This
bill
perm
its c
ount
ies t
o m
ake
emer
genc
y bu
dget
cha
nges
to d
eal w
ith a
na
tura
l or f
iscal
em
erge
ncy.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
3rd
Sub
SB 2
16Po
litic
al
Subd
ivisi
ons
Revi
sions
May
ne, K
aren
Hutc
hing
s, E
ric
Addr
esse
s the
futu
re o
f Sal
t Lak
e Co
unty
’s u
ninc
orpo
rate
d ar
ea b
y fr
eezin
g th
e bo
unda
ries o
f tow
nshi
ps th
roug
h N
ovem
ber 2
015.
Dur
ing
this
time
the
coun
ty
and
stak
ehol
ders
will
stud
y se
vera
l iss
ues l
ike
inco
rpor
atio
n of
tow
nshi
ps a
nd
the
crea
tion
of a
sale
s tax
dist
rict.
Pas
sed
the
Sena
te 2
7-0-
2 an
d th
e Ho
use
67-4
-4.
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
SB 2
37U
rban
Far
min
g Am
endm
ents
/
Amen
ded
Adam
s, S
tuar
tEl
iaso
n, S
teve
This
bill
amen
ds th
e de
finiti
on o
f "ur
ban
farm
ing"
to in
clud
e Da
vis C
ount
y an
d re
duce
s the
rollb
ack
from
10
year
s to
5 ye
ars.
Pas
sed
the
Sena
te 1
9-8-
2 an
d Ho
use
39-3
5-1
Pass
edSu
ppor
t
1st S
ub S
B 24
1Co
unty
Jail
Cont
ract
ing
Amen
dmen
tsJe
nkin
s, S
cott
Dee,
Bra
dTh
is bi
ll al
low
s a c
ount
y to
refu
se c
ondi
tion-
of-p
roba
tion
Stat
e pr
isone
rs if
the
Stat
e do
esn’
t pay
jail
reim
burs
emen
t.Pa
ssed
Supp
ort
SB 2
43Ai
r Qua
lity
Prog
ram
sAd
ams,
Stu
art
Hugh
es,
Greg
ory
The
bill
wou
ld p
lace
a $
1 pe
r mon
th c
harg
e on
gas
and
ele
ctric
bill
s. T
he m
oney
w
ould
be
depo
sited
into
a fu
nd a
dmin
ister
ed b
y a
new
ly e
stab
lishe
d bo
ard
to
allo
cate
mon
ey fo
r cle
an a
ir pr
ojec
ts.
The
proc
edur
e fo
r sel
ectin
g pr
ojec
ts a
nd
the
mem
bers
hip
of th
e bo
ard
are
as y
et u
ndet
erm
ined
. Cu
stom
ers w
ould
hav
e th
e op
tion
to a
nnua
lly o
pt-o
ut o
f pay
ing
the
surc
harg
e.
Faile
dN
o po
sitio
n
1st S
ub S
B 26
7Go
vern
men
tal
Imm
unity
Act
Am
endm
ents
Wei
ler,
Todd
McI
ff, K
ayTh
is bi
ll pr
ovid
es th
at a
gov
ernm
enta
l ent
ity m
ay n
ot c
halle
nge
the
timel
ines
s of
a no
tice
of c
laim
file
d w
ithin
a sp
ecifi
ed ti
me
if th
e cl
aim
ant h
ad in
goo
d fa
ith
prev
ious
ly fi
led
a no
tice
of c
laim
with
ano
ther
gov
ernm
enta
l ent
ity.
Pass
edO
ppos
e
15
2014 UAC TRACKING SHEET
2014 Tracking Sheet Page 1
Number Short Title Sponsor Position Contact
HB 011 Overdose Reporting Amendments Carol Spackman Moss Adam
Provides immunity for an individual who reports to the authority a drug overdose.
HB 017 s1 Interlocal Act Amendments Johnny Anderson Oppose Adam
Requires members of an interlocal agreement to comply with law that is applicable to each public agency that is a member of the agreement.
HB 020 s2 Emergency Vehicle Operator Duty of Care Revisions Brad Dee Support Adam
Provides liability for an officer of the law in the event that a suspect is harmed during a chase.
HB 025 Eminent Domain Amendments Lee Perry Adam
Amends provisions to the eminent domain code.
HB 044 s4 Interstate Electric Transmission Lines Stephen Handy Oppose Adam
Requires a merchant electric transmission line to file an open solicitation notice with the Office of Energy Development.
HB 049 s2 Water Rights - Change Application Amendments Kay McIff Oppose Adam
Modifies the procedure for filling a change application relating to water rights.
HB 051 s2 State Tax Commission Report on Tax Provisions Joel Brisco Brent
Requires the State Tax Commission to make a yearly report to the legislature on a number of property tax issues.
HB 057 Animal Shelter Amendments Angela Romero Brent
Spells out procedures for the euthanizing of strays in animal shelters.
HB 063 Recall Elections Amendments Gage Froerer Oppose Arie
Prescribes a process for instigating a recall election for certain statewide officers.
HB 067 s1 Political Subdivision Jurisdiction Amendments Marc Roberts Support Mark
Authorizes a county chief executive officer or sheriff to exercise jurisdiction over a Nation Monument when deemed necessary.
HB 070 s2 Forcible Entry Amendments Marc Roberts Oppose Brent
Modifies the law concerning the use of forcible entry by law enforcement when making an arrest or conducting a search.
HB 083 Local Government Residential Reimbursement Authority Johnny Anderson Brent
Authorizes a first class county to reimburse an eligible property owner should certain qualifications are met.
HB 085 Electronic Filing of Traffic Citations and Accident Reports Amendments Jon Cox Support Adam
Exempts a law enforcement officer from filing a citation electronically where it isn’t feasible to do so.
HB 099 County Officer Election Revisions Jack Draxler Brent
Clarifies the manner in which a combined county officer’s term is set prior to county staggered-term elections.
HB 102 s1 Assessment Area Amendments Curt Webb Brent
Imposes a number of changes to the code regarding assessment areas.
HB 105 s9 Plant Extract Amendments Gage Froerer Adam
Permits hemp extract for medical treatment provided an individual registers with the Department of Health.
HB 110 s1 Renewable Energy Amendments Kraig Powell Brent
Allows a county or municipality to qualify as a contract customer for a renewable energy contract.
HB 120 s1 Continuing Education on Federalism Ken Ivory Support Adam
Requires a county designated employee to take a continual education class every two years on Federalism.
HB 124 Expungement of Administrative Disciplinary Action Brian Greene Brent
Provides that a licensee may apply for expungement of records for action taken against the licensee by an agency.
HB 125 s2 Electrical Transmission Facility Siting Study Act Roger Barrus Support Brent
Requires the Public Service Commission to conduct a study related to an electrical transmission facility.
HB 128 s1 Electronic Device Location Amendments Ryan Wilcox Brent
Requires a governmental entity obtain a search warrant before obtaining the location of an electronic device.
HB 133 s1 Contingent Management for Federal Facilities David Lifferth Support Mark
Prepares a way for the state to manage national parks, monuments, forests, and recreation areas in the event of a fiscal emergency.
HB 135 Transportation Funding Amendments Johnny Anderson Brent
Replaces a portion of the motor fuel tax with an increase in the sales tax and dedicates those revenues to transportation.
HB 147 Peace Officer Agreements with Federal Agencies Richard Greenwood Support Brent
Specifies the terms under which a federal agency may enter into with a county sheriff to enforce federal, state, and local laws.
HB 149 Amendments to Federal Law Enforcement Limitations Mike Noel Support Mark
Spells out which state and local laws federal officials can enforce and which federal officials can enforce those laws.
HB 155 s1 Utah Communication Agency Network and Utah 911 Committee Amendments Brad Dee Support Brent
Creates the Utah Communication Agency and tasks it with 911 dispatch services.
HB 156 s1 Election Day Voter Registration Pilot Project Rebecca Chavez-Houck Arie
Permits counties to participate in a same-day voter registration pilot project.
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Number Short Title Sponsor Position Contact
HB 158 s4 Grazing and Timber Agricultural Commodity Zones in Utah Mike Noel Support Mark
Establishes Grazing and Timber Agricultural Commodity Zones throughout Utah.
HB 160 Utah Wilderness Act Stephen Handy Neutral Mark
Provides the mechanism for identifying and designating protected wilderness areas in Utah.
HB 163 Appellate Bond Amendments Doug Sagers Adam
Repeals an exemption for a local government to issue an appellate bond during a lawsuit.
HB 165 s1 Vote by Mail Amendments Steve Eliason Oppose Arie
Establishes vote by mail as the primary election process in the State of Utah.
HB 175 Constable Amendments Curt Oda Oppose Brent
Creates the position of apprentice constable and spells out a new process for constables and their apprentices to be licensed.
HB 183 s1 Federal Land Exchange and Sale Amendments Mike Noel Support Mark
Requires SITLA to identify parcels of state and federal lands that are suitable for a federal land exchange.
HB 188 Court Security Revisions Brad Dee Support Brent
Requires the state to pay for court security provided by county deputies in state courts.
HB 189 Inherent Risk of Recreational Activities Amendments Keven Stratton Support Adam
Holds an individual responsible for injury sustained on public property under reasonable circumstances.
HB 212 DNA Collection Amendments Steve Eliason Support Adam
Allows law enforcement to collect DNA for felony offenses in 2014 and requires them to do so beginning in 2015.
HB 220 s2 Land Use Amendments Gage Froerer Adam
Requires a county or municipality to justify any ordinance that is stricter than the state’s land use chapters.
HB 225 s1 Primary Law Enforcement Duties for Sheriffs Paul Ray Brent
Designates the sheriff as the primary law enforcement authority for state law on federal land.
HB 232 Tax on Sand and Gravel Extraction Doug Sagers Support Brent
Permits a county (or municipality, if the county chooses not to) to impose a severance tax on sand or gravel extraction.
HB 238 Local Referendum Requirements Amendments Kraig Powell Support Arie
Limits the citizens permitted to participate in a local referendum issue to those affected geographically by the issue.
HB 242 Fees for Government Records Requests Brian King Oppose Adam
Requires a governmental entity to fulfill a GRAMA request at no charge under certain circumstances.
HB 244 Voting and Voter Registration Amendments Jacob Anderegg Oppose Arie
Enacts stricter proof of citizen requirements to vote in state and local elections.
HB 252 s1 Absentee Ballot Amendments Jim Bird Oppose Arie
Prohibits exclusive by-mail elections.
HB 255 Disclosure Requirements Prior to Sale of Real Estate Doug Sagers Brent
Requires a hazardous waste disclosure form be presented prior to real estate closing.
HB 258 s2 Municipal Business Licensing Amendments Jacob Anderegg Oppose Arie
Prohibits a municipality from issuing a business license to an at-home business with less than $250,000 annual revenue.
HB 262 s2 Local Governing Body Voting Amendments Kraig Powell Neutral Adam
Requires the vote of the majority of membership of any local government legislative body to take any legislative action.
HB 269 Land Subdivision Amendments Kraig Powell Adam
Requires a county to withhold a subdivision plat until tax clearance is provided.
HB 273 Property Tax Residential Exemption Amendments Lowry Snow Support Brent
Allows a residential property to claim the primary residential property exemption provided it meets that criteria for over half the year.
HB 278 Highway Construction Bid Limit Reduction Stephen Handy Oppose Brent
Reduces the bid limit for construction or improvement on a class B or C road.
HB 302 s2 Voting Records Amendments Becky Edwards Support Arie
Makes the birth date a private record on voter registration lists.
HB 304 Law Enforcement Volunteer Amendments Richard Greenwood Support Brent
Authorizes the county sheriff to approve a volunteer to serve in an emergency law enforcement event.
HB 318 s1 Rights of Parents and Children Amendments LaVar Christensen Adam
Permits a parent who has been served with a petition for termination of parental rights to request a jury trial.
HB 328 Construction and Fire Codes Amendments Mike Noel Adam
Allows fourth, fifth, and sixth class counties to opt out of certain requirements of the fire and construction codes.
HB 339 County Budget Amendments Jennifer Seelig Support Brent
Allows a county to appropriate money or provide nonmonetary assistance to a nonprofit entity in certain circumstances.
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Number Short Title Sponsor Position Contact
HB 344 s1 Incorporation Election Amendments Jon Cox Adam
Authorizes a county to hold a special election on the proposed incorporation of a city or town.
HB 356 s1 New Convention Facility Development Incentive Provisions Brad Wilson Brent
Establishes a tax credit for the owner of a new convention hotel consisting of sales tax revenues with certain restrictions.
HB 368 Jury Duty Amendments Craig Hall Support Adam
Exempts counties with population under 75,000 from complying with certain jury duty limitations.
HB 381 s1 Local Government Interfund Loans John Knotwell Adam
Outlines parameters that must be followed when a local government issues an interfund loan.
HB 387 Highway Amendments Mike McKell Oppose Mark
Enacts provisions relating to public uses constituting an abandonment and dedication of a highway to the public.
HB 388 s1 Amendments to Transportation Funding Johnny Anderson Support Brent
Authorizes a quarter cent sales tax for transit.
HB 391 s1 Tangible Personal Property Tax Exemption Jim Nielson Oppose Brent
In conjunction with HJR 2, exempts certain tangible personal property from property tax.
HB 404 Court Security Fee Amendments Paul Ray Support Brent
Increases the amount of court security surcharge deposited into the state treasurer's Court Security Account from $8 to $13.
HB 407 Litigation Transparency Act Jacob Anderegg Adam
Requires that a person that sues the state or a political subdivision disclose the person's source of funding.
HB 408 Election Requirements Amendments Kay Christofferson Support Arie
Allows for space on a ballot for write-in candidates only when qualified written-in candidates have filed 60 days before an election.
HB 415 s2 Local and Special Service District Elections Amendments Steve Eliason Arie
Allows local and special service district to move their elections from a Municipal Election to a General Election if they so choose.
HB 422 s1 Initiative and Referendum Impact Disclosure Brad Last Support Adam
Requires a fiscal impact be included with any initiative and referendum issue on the ballot.
HB 435 s1 Taxation of Property Amendments Doug Sagers Arie
Requires a county assessor to consider whether property has been used for hazardous waste storage in determining fair market value.
HCR 10 Concurrent Resolution on School and Institutional Trust Lands Exchange Act Mike Noel Support Mark
Urges the US Congress to enact legislation affirming the federal land grant process and permit federal-state land exchanges.
HJR 02 Joint Resolution on Business Personal Property Tax Exemption Jim Nielson Oppose Brent
Resolves to change the state constitution to exempt business personal property from property tax.
HJR 04 Joint Resolution on Recall Elections Gage Froerer Oppose Arie
Proposes to amend the state constitution to allow certain statewide officers subject to a recall election.
HJR 17 Joint Resolution on Jail Facilities Richard Greenwood Support Brent
Supports the expansion of jail contracting with county government.
SB 019 s1 Appointment and Qualification of Members of the State Tax Commission Howard Stephenson Oppose Brent
Amends provisions relating to the qualifications of serving as a state tax commissioner.
SB 021 s1 State Construction Code Amendments Margaret Dayton Oppose Adam
Exempts from the permit requirements of the State Construction Code a structure that is solely used to sell certain seasonal crops.
SB 022 s2 Workforce Services Job Listing Amendments Pete Knudson Adam
Requires local governments to advertise job openings with Workforce Services.
SB 025 Candidate Certification Amendments Deidre Henderson Support Arie
Extends the deadline for political parties to certify candidates by a week for 2014 only.
SB 036 s5 Voter Information Amendments Karen Mayne Support Arie
Establishes a procedure by which a voter can have his or her voting records designated as private.
SB 060 Fuel Excise Tax Amendments John Valentine Support Brent
Replaces a portion of the flat gas tax with a percentage tax per gallon on the motor fuel tax.
SB 061 Revisions to Property Tax Deidre Henderson Support Brent
Adjusts the timing of the budget setting process associated calendar year fiscal entities to allow for the removal of August truth in taxation.
SB 070 State Data Portal Amendments Deidre Henderson Adam
Modifies the duties of the Utah Transparency Advisory Board and its role in the availability of public information.
SB 076 Rural Economic Mapping and Partnership Stuart Reid Support Adam
Modifies the duties of the Office of Rural Development by requiring that it assist rural counties in creating strategies for economic development.
SB 088 s1 Child Interview Amendments Ralph Okerlund Support Adam
Protects child testimony at the Children’s Justice Center from being accessible through GRAMA.
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Number Short Title Sponsor Position Contact
SB 114 Canal Safety Act Gene Davis Adam
Enacts the canal safety act.
SB 120 s3 Shelter Animal Vaccine Amendments Scott Jenkins Support Brent
Exempts an animal shelter from obtaining a license as a pharmacy for purposes of handling drugs used for euthanasia.
SB 134 Taxation Related Referendum Amendments John Valentine Arie
Shortens the time period for actions taken with regards to a referendum petition relating to change in property tax rates.
SB 135 s2 Voter Registration Amendments Scott Jenkins Support Arie
Moves the deadline for voter registration closer to an Election date.
SB 136 s1 Local Elections Amendments Howard Stephenson Arie
Prescribes an election process should a taxing entities budget decision need to go to a vote in the case of a successful referendum.
SB 153 s2 Association Foreclosure Amendments Steve Urquhart Oppose Adam
Provides that a beneficiary of a trust deed that is secured by real property belonging to a condominium association pay any association costs.
SB 154 All-terrain Vehicle Amendments Scott Jenkins Brent
Repeals a prohibition for ATVs on certain city roadways.
SB 158 Cemetery Amendments Scott Jenkins Support Adam
Requires ownership of cemetery burial plots be recorded with the county recorder.
SB 161 Criminal Surcharge Amendments Wayne Harper Brent
Amends the division of money collected on criminal fees so that local government receives 5 percent more and state government 5 percent less.
SB 169 s2 Public Meetings Materials Requirements Deidre Henderson Support Adam
Requires electric copies of meeting materials be provided at certain public meetings.
SB 174 Emergency Fiscal Procedures Counties Deidre Henderson Support Adam
Allows for a county to make certain expenditure and budgetary changes for a natural or financial disaster.
SB 176 Local Funding for Rural Health Care Amendments Ralph Okerlund Support Adam
Provides counties collecting the rural hospital local option sales tax more flexibility in the expense of those funds.
SB 180 s1 Property Tax Modifications Wayne Harper Brent
Adjusts the multicounty assessing and collecting tax levy.
SB 184 s1 Local Government Inspection Amendments Stuart Adams Oppose Adam
Enacts several prohibitions to local government on construction inspections.
SB 198 Law Enforcement Exemption for Medical Information Stuart Adams Adam
Allows a health care provider to issue a statement as to whether a detainee is medically cleared for incarceration in certain circumstances.
SB 216 s3 Municipal Formation Amendments Karen Mayne Mark
Enacts a provision that allows a county legislative body to incorporate the noncontiguous unincorporated county as a municipality.
SB 221 s1 Indigent Counsel in Juvenile Court Todd Weiler Support Adam
Amends provisions related to the appointment of indigent counsel in juvenile court proceedings.
SB 228 Geographic Diversity Amendments Stuart Reid Support Arie
Requires that an initiative or referendum meet certain geographical requirements.
SB 232 s1 School Safety Tip Line Daniel Thatcher Oppose Adam
Creates a statewide School Safety Tip Line Commission to pursue the viability of creating a three-digit line for school safety calls.
SB 241 s1 County Jail Contracting Amendments Scott Jenkins Support Brent
Allows a county to refuse to accept a condition of probation state prisoner if the state doesn’t fund for that prisoner.
SB 244 s1 Modifications to Property Tax Aaron Osmond Support Brent
Authorizes a county treasurer to provide property tax notices electronically if a taxpayer elects to receive notice in that manner.
SB 250 Public Duty Doctrine Amendments Curt Bramble Adam
Provides that a general duty a government owes the public does not create a specific duty to an individual.
SB 267 s1 Governmental Immunity Act Amendments Todd Weiler Adam
Provides a process for governmental entities and claimants to correct an improperly delivered notice of claim for injury.
SB 268 Prison Relocation Commission Jerry Stephenson Brent
Creates a new prison relocation commission.
SCR 06 s1 Concurrent Resolution Calling on Congress to Provide Permanent Multiyear
Funding for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes Program Ralph Okerlund Support Mark
Urges the US Congress to find a permanent funding mechanism for PILT.
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2014 APPROPRIATIONS
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2014 APPROPRIATIONS HIGHLIGHTS
1. $1,016,300 statewide in on-going jail reimbursement.
2. $3,600,000 statewide for court security. HB 404 increases the court security surcharge from $40 to $50. The additional surcharge will cover the current $1.8 million shortfall the state has failed to pay county government in the past.
3. $1,500,000 statewide in one-time funding for early Mental Health intervention for children and youth.
4. $4,400,000 statewide in one-time funding for Mental Health Medicaid Match.
5. $300,000 statewide in one-time funding to Meals on Wheels. Salt Lake County Specific Appropriations
6. $350,000 one-time funding for Jordan River (Winchester Hazard Project).
7. $250,000 one-time funding for Clark Planetarium Exhibits.
8. $120,000 one-time Alliance House for mentally ill. Funds self-sufficiency programs This appropriation does not come directly to Salt Lake County, but it benefits the citizens of Salt Lake County as services and facilities are located in our County.
9. $75,000 one-time funding for Urban Wildlife Removal Specialist.
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HOUSE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
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HB 11 - Overdose Reporting Amendments (Moss, C.) – Passed This bill grants criminal immunity to individuals who seek medical help for drug-overdose victims. It would not grant immunity for other types of crimes such as selling drugs, assault or theft, but would allow calling for help and cooperation with authorities to be used as a mitigating factor in sentencing. Vote: Passed House 74-0-1, Passed Senate 24-0-5 2nd Sub. HB 17 - Interlocal Act Amendments (Anderson, J.) – Passed This bill requires an interlocal entity to adopt bylaws, policies, and procedures. If a state law that governs a member of the interlocal entity conflicts with a law that governs another member entity the interlocal entity must close and comply with one of the conflicting state laws. This bill has a delayed effective date, May 12, 2015. Vote: Passed House 74-0-1, Passed Senate 25-0-4 Council Position: Oppose 2nd Sub. HB 20 - Emergency Vehicle Operator Duty of Care Revisions (Dee, B). – Passed This bill relates to police pursuits. It specifies that “an operator of an authorized emergency vehicle” owes no duty of care to a fleeing suspect or a willing passenger in the vehicle of a fleeing suspect. However, the police may not act with “actual intent” to cause harm, defined as “malicious motive to cause injury” that is unrelated to the legitimate object of the arrest. Vote: Passed House 41-28-6, Passed Senate 15-13-1 HB 21 - System of Care for Minors in State Custody (Sanpei, D.) – Passed This bill modified Title 17, Chapter 43, Local Human Services Act, and Title 62A, Utah Human Services Code, by promoting a system of care of a minor with or at risk for complex emotional and behavioral problems. This bill defines system of care, and requires the executive director of the Department of Human Services to establish a system of care for minors with or at risk for complex emotional and behavioral problems. Vote: Passed House 69-0-6, Passed Senate 20-0-9 HB 25 - Eminent Domain Amendments (Perry, L.) – Passed This bill strengthens the contents of the notice that a condemning entity must provide to the condemnee. The bill also provides additional avenues to allow a property owner to seek a written advisory opinion from a neutral third party to determine if a condemning entity is occupying the property, in which case attorney’s fees may be awarded against the condemning entity. Vote: Passed House 71-0-4, Passed Senate 27-0-2
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HB 30 - Controlled Substance Amendments (Ray, P.) – Passed This bill adds new “spice” and emerging drug analogs to the listed controlled substances. Vote: Passed House 59-12-4, Passed Senate 24-2-3 4th Sub. HB 44 - Interstate Electric Transmission Lines (Handy, S.) – Passed This bill requires a merchant electric transmission line to file an open solicitation notice with the Office of Energy Development. It also requires in-state merchant generators to submit an expression of need to the same office. This bill was worked on a great deal by competing electric transmission line owners. Originally, the bill had provisions granting counties some control over where a new transmission line could be placed. Vote: Passed House 72-0-3, Passed Senate 25-0-4 HB 57 - Animal Shelter Amendments (Romero, A.) – Failed This bill authorizes an animal shelter to euthanize an animal by means of carbon monoxide gas if other means would be unsafe to personnel or cause unacceptable levels of stress to the animal. The shelter cannot euthanize more than one animal at a time in a carbon-monoxide chamber, unless each animal has a specific compartment and the measure also requires the shelters to adopt policy and training standards for employees. Vote: Passed House 61-8-6, No Senate Vote Council Position: Support HB 63 - Recall Elections Amendments (Froerer, G.) – Failed This bill enacts a recall election process for executive branch officials of state government Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote 1st Sub. HB 67 - Political Subdivision Jurisdiction Amendments (Roberts, M.) – Passed This bill authorizes a county chief executive officer or sheriff to exercise jurisdiction over a National Monument or national recreation area when deemed necessary in the event of a health, safety, or welfare emergency. The bill also spells out what steps the Attorney General’s Office is to take in deciding whether to provide legal defense to the county. Vote: Passed House 65-4-6, Passed Senate 26-0-3
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2nd Sub. HB 70 – Forcible Entry Amendments (Roberts, M) – Passed This bill modifies the law concerning the use of forcible entry by law enforcement when making an arrest or conducting a search. It requires law enforcement officers to identify themselves before forcing entry into a building unless doing so may endanger the law enforcement officers or another person or if doing so might risk loss of evidence. The bill also requires law enforcement officers to use the least amount of force necessary when executing forcible entry.
Vote: Passed House 69-6-0, Passed Senate 26-0-3 HB 73 - Living Wage Amendments (Hemingway, L.) – Failed This bill sets Utah’s minimum wage to $10.25 per hour and $3.13 per hour for a tipped employee. Beginning January 1, 2016, both will increase by a percentage equal to the percentage difference between the average of the CPI for the two preceding years and the CPI for 2013. Vote: No House vote, No Senate Vote HB 83 - Local Government Residential Reimbursement Authority Act (Anderson, J.) – Failed This bill authorizes, in a county of the first class, cities and the county to create a reimbursement fund to assist certain homeowners to fix title problems on their homes. In the 1970’s, some developers created housing developments which, rather than granting title in fee simple to the owners, vested it in multi-family condominiums, some of which consisted of a homeowners’ association of only two residential units. This creates difficulty for home owners to refinance or sell their homes. Regarding such developments in Salt Lake County, the County is willing to help homeowners through the complex and costly process of changing title to fee simple in a single owner by reimbursing some of the costs of subdividing their property and fixing their title. Vote: Passed the House 73-0-2 Council Position: Support HB 84 - Substitute School District Amendments (Hall, C.) – Failed This bill related to the creation of a new school district by request from a city or from a group of interlocal participants under Section 53A-2-188 (a) (iii). It requires the school district to conduct a feasibility study that specifically addressed the question of anticipated revenues vs. expenditures for the next 5 years in the proposed new district. If the feasibility study shows that revenues will exceed expenditures the issue cannot be put to a vote. Vote: Passed the House, 56-14-5, failed in the Senate 11-18-0 Council Position: Support
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HB 85 - Electronic Filing of Traffic Citations and Accident Reports Amendments (Cox, J) - Passed This bill exempts a citing law enforcement officer from filing a citation electronically when it is not reasonable to do so. The law enforcement officer is required, though, to be sure to file the citation with a justice court.
Vote: Passed the House 70-1-4, Passed the Senate 24-0-5 HB 88 - Autism Program Amendments (Menlove, R – Passed) This bill requires the Department of Health to make the program for the treatment of qualified children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) permanent and requires Public Employee Insurance and Benefit programs to establish an ongoing program for the treatment of qualified children with ASD. Vote: Passed the House, 67-3-5, Passed the Senate 25-2-2 Council Position: Support 1st Sub. HB 91 – Open and Public Meetings Act Revisions (Poulson, M.) – Failed This bill requires a public body whose membership includes a legislator to post notice of its meetings on the Legislature’s website. Vote: Failed House 35-40-0, HB 96 - Utah School Readiness Initiative (Hughes, G.) – Passed This bill creates the School Readiness Board which provides grants to certain early childhood education programs and may enter into contracts with private entities to provide funding for early childhood education programs for at risk students. Vote: Passed House 55-17-3, Passed Senate 17-10-2 Council Position: Support HB 97- Limitation on Local Government Regulation of Animals (King, B.) – Passed This bill prohibits a municipality from enacting or enforcing a breed specific rule, regulation, policy or ordinance about dogs. This bill has a delayed effective date, January 1, 2015. Vote: Passed House 43-28-4, Passed Senate 26-2-1 Council Position: Neutral
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HB 99 - County Offices Election Revisions (Draxler, J.) – Passed This bill clarifies the manner in which a combined county officer’s term is set prior to county staggered-term elections. In the event that two or more consolidated offices do not have the same term schedule, the county legislative body shall set the election schedule of the consolidated offices. Vote: Passed House 68-0-7, Passed Senate 24-0-5 1st Sub. HB 108 - Mobile Home Park Task Force (Cosgrove, T.) – Failed This bill creates the Mobile Home Park Task Force. The task force is required to review and make recommendations on the following issues: the difficulties that mobile home park owner and residents face when a mobile home park closes, what to do with an abandoned mobile home, financial burdens on mobile home park residents including rent increases, fees and other charges; the balance of interest and responsibilities between state and local government in relation to regulation of mobile home parks; incentives for park owners to maintain land as a mobile home park; the development of new mobile parks. Vote: Passed House 68-0-7, No Senate Vote Council Position: Support 1st Sub. HB 102 – Assessment Area Amendments (Webb, C.) This bill amends procedures regarding the creation of a special assessment area. It establishes a moratorium on new SAAs until May 2015. It reduces the number of protests needed to stop the creation of an SAA from 50% to 45% and it creates a process requiring the local government to re-adopt and re-designate, by popular petition process, an SAA that receives 35% protests. The re-adoption process requires more petition signers than the 35% protestors number, certification of the petition, a public hearing and a unanimous vote of the governing body. Vote: Passed House 50-16-9, Passed Senate 27-0-2 Council Position: Oppose Vetoed by the Governor 9th Sub. HB 105 – Plant Extract Amendments (Froerer, G.) This bill permits hemp extract for medical treatment of epilepsy provided an individual registers with the Department of Health and is issued a hemp extract registration card from that department. To qualify for the exemption a citizen must receive a written statement from a neurologist indicating intractable epilepsy. Vote: Passed House 62-11-2, Passed Senate 26-0-3
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1st Sub. HB 110 – Renewable Energy Amendments (Powell, K.) – Failed This bill allows a county or municipality to qualify as a contract customer for a renewable energy contract and requires the Public Service Commission to make rules to determine appropriate charges and credits for participating customers within a municipality or county.
Vote: No House vote, No Senate vote 10th Sub. HB 112 - Regulation of Electronic Cigarettes (Ray, P.) – Failed This bill would prohibit the selling or manufacturing of e-cigarettes or substances without a license from the Department of Health. It would prohibit advertising that e-cigarettes help an individual to stop using tobacco. It allows the Department of Health to revoke a license if a person sells e-cigarettes to someone under 19 and prohibits someone under 19 from buying or possessing e-cigarette products.
Vote: Passed the House 72-0-03, Passed Senate 24-4-1, however the House did not have a vote to concur.
Council Position: Support HB 119 – Opiate Overdose Emergency Treatment (Moss, C.) - Passed This bill allows doctors to prescribe to a third party a drug that counters the effects of opiate overdoses. It would allow caregivers and family members of people using opiates to receive prescriptions to have Naloxone present in case of an overdose, and administer it. Vote: Passed House 72-0-3, Passed Senate 27-0-2 1st Sub HB 120 – Continuing Education on Federalism Treatment (Ivory, Ken) Passed This bill requires the Commission on Federalism to create a curriculum on federalism. It also requires state agencies and political subdivisions of the state to designate a specialist on issues of federalism and requires those specialists to attend a seminar either in person or online on the principles of federalism developed by the Commission on Federalism. The original version required all attorneys employed by government to participate in the training on federalism. Vote: Passed House 51-16-8, Passed Senate 15-12-2 Council Position: Oppose HB 121 - Air Quality Revisions (Edwards, R) - Failed This bill changes the process by which the Division of Air Quality (DAQ) can create rules that are more stringent than federal regulations. The law currently allows more stringent air quality standards if the DAQ board makes a written finding that federal regulation are “not adequate to protect the public health and environment.” The proposed law would lessen the standard to allow stricter regulations, assuming DAQ board makes a written finding that stricter regulations “will provide essential added protections to public health or the environment”.
Vote: Passed House 54-18-3, No Senate Vote
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HB 123 - Property Tax Lien Amendments (Wheatley, M.) – Passed This bill prohibits a county from reassigning a lien on real property. Vote: Passed House 73-0-2, Passed Senate 27-0-2 1st Sub. HB 128 - Electronic Device Location Amendments (Wilcox, R.) – Passed This bill requires a governmental entity to obtain a search warrant before obtaining the location of an electronic device such as a cell phone. It waves the search warrant requirement in the event of an emergency that involves imminent risk of death or serious bodily injury. Vote: Passed House 70-1-4, Passed Senate 28-0-1 HB 135 - Transportation Funding Amendments (Anderson, J.) - Failed This bill replaces a portion of the motor fuel tax with an increase in sales tax and dedicates those revenues to transportation. According to the fiscal note, the bill would result in a negative impact to B and C road funds. The note suggests a decrease by $38.8 million in FY 2015 and decrease by $38.7 million in FY 2016.
Vote: Failed in House Transportation Standing Committee 3-6-2 1st Sub. HB 155 - Utah Communication Agency Network and Utah 911 Committee Amendments (Dee, B.) - Passed This bill merges the Utah Communications Agency Network and the Utah 911 Committee into a single authority, titled the Utah Communications Authority. It utilizes the General Fund for changes to the Computer Aided Dispatch Restricted Account and considers creation of statewide 911 contracts and computer aided dispatch systems. Vote: Passed House 60-8-7, Passed Senate 28-1-0 Council Position: Support 1st Sub HB 156 - Election Day Voter Registration Pilot Project (Chavez-Houck, R.) – Passed This bill establishes a pilot project to test the advisability of implementing election Day voter registration in Utah. It provides that a county or municipality may apply to participate in the pilot project. The project sunsets in 2017 at which time the Lt. Governor’s Office is charged to report to the Legislature the merits of the project and whether or not such a process makes sense statewide. Vote: Passed House 42-26-7, Passed Senate 23-3-3, HB 161 - Prohibition on Electronic Data Collection Assistance (Roberts, M.) – Failed This bill prohibits the county or any political subdivision from offering services or assistance of any kind to a federal data collection agency, or from relying on information from the federal data collection agency in the prosecution of a criminal action. Federal data collection agency is
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defined as a federal agency that collects electronic data from citizens without a search warrant and without the citizen’s consent. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 163 - Appellate Bond Amendments (Sagers, D.) – Failed This bill repeals 78B-5-805, which allows the county and other political subdivisions to pursue civil actions without the necessity of filing a bond. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote 1st Sub. HB 165 – Vote by Mail Amendments (Eliason, S.) – Failed This bill establishes vote by mail as the primary election process in the State of Utah. The bill allows for Election Day voting at vote centers and allows a jurisdiction to opt out of the vote by mail requirement through petition to the Lt. Governor’s Office provided the petition meets certain requirements. Vote: Failed in House Political Subdivisions Committee 4-7-0 HB 167- Local Economic Development Amendments (Snow, V.) – Failed The bill provides that community development project area plans that are created to provide tax increment funding for development related to a specific industry or business entity are not subject to certain notice and public hearing requirements, if certain requirements are met. Requirements include the business entity will only receive tax increment on a post-performance basis if it has met certain targets regarding capital investment, job creation, and wages of at least 110% of the county’s prevailing wage. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 175 - Constable Amendments (Oda, C.) – Failed This bill creates the position of apprentice constable. Additionally, it requires all constables, deputy constables and apprentice constables to be licensed by the Bureau of Criminal Identification and provides the BCI with requirements for applicants to be licensed as a constable. Deputy constables and apprentice constables do not need to be licensed as law enforcement officers or special function officers. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 176 - Food Handler Permit Amendments (Eliason, S.) – Passed This bill creates an exemption for those required to obtain food handling permits. This bill exempts individuals who serve food at an event that is sponsored by a charitable organization where the organization provides food, free of charge, to a disadvantaged group. Vote: Passed House 71-1-3, Passed Senate 27-0-2
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HB 178 - Halfway House Amendments (Hutchings, E.) – Failed This bill provides the funds available in the Law Enforcement Services Account (LESA) may be distributed to law enforcement agencies based on a formula established by the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice to establish the marginal impact of placing parolees in halfway houses and parolee violator centers within the jurisdiction of each law enforcement agency. Vote: Passed House 73-0-2, No Senate Vote HB 181 - Medical Waste Incineration Amendments (Edwards, R.) – Failed This bill prohibits the incineration of infectious waste or chemotherapeutic agents in any facility that opens after January 1, 2015, unless there is no superior alternative for disposal of the waste. Additionally, it requires the best available control technology for any facility opening after January 1, 2015 that treats such waste. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 188 - Court Security Revisions (Dee, B.) - Failed This bill lifts the cap on the amount the state reimburses the county sheriff for bailiffs and court security. It requires the state court administrator to enter into a contract with the sheriff for bailiffs and court security, and to pay the full costs for those services. It also shifts to the state the additional court security costs, including travel, training, and other administrative costs. Vote: Passed House 72-1-2, No Senate Vote Council Position: Support HB 189 - Inherent Risk of Recreational Activities Amendments (Stratton, K.) - Failed This bill extends responsibility for assumption of risk to individuals conducting different recreational activities on public lands and waterways. Recreational activity includes rodeo, an equestrian activity, skateboarding, paragliding, hang gliding, roller skating, ice skating, fishing, hiking, walking, running, jogging, bike riding, in-line skating, or any other sport or leisure activity on public waterways or public property. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 192 - Initiative and Referendum Petition Amendments (Stanard, J.) – Passed This bill requires signers of an initiative petition to certify they have read and understand the law proposed by the petition or proposed to be overturned by the petition. Vote: Passed House 52-16-7, Passed Senate 23-5-1
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HB 210 - Sales and Use Tax for Transportation (Briscoe, J.) – Failed This bill would allow a local government to increase certain sales and use tax revenues to fund public transit. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote 1st Sub. HB 211 - Substance Abuse Amendments (Kennedy, M.) – Passed This bill requires the office of licensing to charge an annual licensing fee to residential treatment programs and recovery residences; requires the DSAMH to cooperate and assist private treatment centers, etc. to provide services to individuals recovering from a substance abuse disorder by providing them with essential materials for furthering programs of prevention and rehabilitation. Vote: Passed House 72-0-3, Passed Senate 27-0-2 1st Sub. HB 225 - Primary Law Enforcement Duties for Sheriffs (Ray, P.) – Passed The bill enacts language designating the Sheriff as the primary law enforcement authority of state law on federal land except as otherwise assigned by law to the authority of a state or municipal law enforcement agency. Vote: Passed House 64-4-7, Passed Senate 25-0-4 HB 232 - Tax on Sand and Gravel Extraction (Sagers, D.) – Failed This bill authorizes a county or city if the county declines, to impose a severance tax on sand and gravel extraction. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 234 - School District Division Amendments (Bird, J.) – Failed This bill relates to a vote of the citizens to split a school district and create two districts. It requires a majority vote of residents in both the new school district and the district that would be left behind before a new school district can be created. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 238 - Local Referendum Requirement (Powell, K.) – Passed This bill provides that when a law passed by a local legislative body imposes a tax or other payment obligation on property in an area that does not include all precincts under the jurisdiction of the county, city, or town, the signatures required for a referendum, and the subsequent vote on the referendum, shall be by residents of the precincts to which the tax or other payment obligation applies. Vote: Passed House 70-1-4, Passed Senate 26-0-1
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HB 240 - Motor and Special Fuel Tax Increase (Nielson, J.) – Failed This bill increases the motor and special fuel taxes annually over the next five years. When the increase is fully phased in at 7.5 cents in FY 19, the increased revenue to the Transportation Fund may be $111,000,000. Local transportation fund revenues could increase $33,300,800 in FY 19 when fully phased in. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 242 - Fees for Government Records Requests (King, B.) – Failed This bill would require a governmental entity to provide records requested under GRAMA free of charge if it is determined the release benefits the public rather than a person. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote Council Position: Oppose HB 244 - Voting and Voter Registration Amendments (Anderegg, J.) – Failed This bill requires a voter to have submitted proof of U.S. citizenship to be eligible to vote in any election beginning in 2019 or later. The bill does not apply to voting for federal offices. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote Council Position: Oppose 2nd Sub. HB 245 - State Fire Code Amendments (Dunnigan, J.) – Passed This bill amends the State Construction and Fire Codes Act. It allows counties of the first class to regulate fireworks within townships. Unincorporated areas outside of townships will be under the control of the State Forester in consultation with the local fire authority. It adds an exception to the requirement that an automatic sprinkler system be installed in certain fire areas.
Vote: Passed House 71-0-4, Passed Senate 23-0-6 Council Position: Support 2nd Sub. HB 252 - Absentee Ballot Amendments (Bird, J.) – Failed This bill would require all cities within Salt Lake County that choose to conduct an election by mail to also provide an Election Day voting center. It would require an additional Election Day voting center for every 100,000 residents within the jurisdiction. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote Council Position: Oppose
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2nd Sub. HB 258 - Municipal Business Licensing Amendments (Anderegg, J.) – Failed This bill prohibits a city from requiring a license for certain business. Prohibits a city from sharing any information with the County regarding a business that is not required to be licensed. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote Council Position: Oppose 2nd Sub. HB 262 - Local Governing Body Voting Amendments (Powell, K.) – Passed This bill requires a majority vote of the total number of voting members of a city council to pass an ordinance or resolution. It only applies to cities and clarifies that you must have a majority vote in the affirmative to pass something. Vote: Passed House 72-1-2, Passed Senate 20-0-9 Council Position: Opposed original bill that applied to counties. 1st Sub. HB 267 - Aging and Adult Services Amendments (Chavez-Houck, R.) – Passed This bill clarifies and modifies the powers and duties of Adult Protective Services and makes the vulnerable adult database and the adult protection case files available to city attorneys. Vote: Passed House 72-0-3, Passed Senate 21-0-8 HB 269 - Local Subdivision Amendments (Powell, K.) – Failed This bill requires a county to withhold subdivision approval until all taxes have been paid. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 273 - Property Tax Residential Exemption Amendments (Snow, L.) – Passed This bill allows a residential property to claim the primary resident exemption if it meets the legal criteria for more than half the year. Vote: Passed House 70-1-4, Passed Senate 26-0-3 HB 278 - Highway Construction Bid Limit Reduction (Handy, S.) – Failed This bill would reduce the bid limit for a construction or improvement project on a Class B or C road from $125,000 to $100,000. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote
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3rd Sub. HB 283 - Nonprofit Entity Receipt of Government Money (Menlove, R.) – Passed This bill addresses state auditor oversight of nonprofit entities, requires written agreements for grants, and imposes requirements on a nonprofits’ receipt of state money and requires the return of state money if the nonprofit entity fails to comply with requirements. Vote: Passed House 74-0-1, Passed Senate 28-0-1 3rd Sub. HB 285 – Alcoholic Beverage Service Amendments (Powell, K.) – Failed The bill modifies the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act to address issues related to the regulation of alcoholic products. It would remove the barrier that new restaurants must build to obscure bartending – the so-called Zion Curtain. It also would allow patrons to get an alcoholic beverage without ordering food. Vote: Passed the House Rev. & Tax Standing Committee 8-7-1 2nd Sub. HB 302 - Voting Records Amendments (Edwards, R.) – Failed This bill amends provisions relating to voter registration records. It allows a voter to request that the voter’s registration record be classified as a private record by filing a signed form with the County Clerk, on the voter registration form or in response to a voter registration notice. It prohibits a person, other than a government official or employee, from using the list of registered voter for commercial purposes. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 339 - County Budget Amendments (Seelig, J.) – Passed This bill allows a county to appropriate money to, provide nonmonetary assistance to, or waive fees required to be paid by a nonprofit entity, if, in the judgment of the county legislative body, the assistance contributes to the safety, health, prosperity, moral well-being, peace, order, comfort, or convenience of county residents. Additionally, a county may do likewise for a private enterprise provided it meets the same criteria as listed above and the county posts public notice of a public hearing on the proposed appropriation to the private entity, provides a study that measures the benefit to the county, and allow for citizen appeal. This bill is based on a similar provision which permits municipalities to make appropriations to private enterprise, 10-8-2(3). Vote: Passed House 62-10-3, Passed Senate 21-7-1 Council Position: Support 1st Sub. HB 344 - Incorporation Election Amendments (Cox, J.) – Passed This bill authorizes a county to hold a local special election on the proposed incorporation of a city or town. The special election could be on the June primary day or the November election day, and could be in either even or odd numbered years.
Vote: Passed House 67-5-3, Passed Senate 25-1-3 Council Position: Oppose
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1st Sub. HB 356 - New Convention Hotel Development Incentive Provisions (Wilson, B.) – Passed This bill enacts the New Convention Facility Act. The incentive consists of a refund to a qualified hotel owner of income tax remitted by the hotel in an amount equal to the State sales tax generated by the qualified hotel during that same period. There is a dollar cap of $75 million on the overall amount of the State’s incentive. It establishes a tax credit for the private owner of a new “qualified hotel.” A “qualified hotel” is any hotel property that meets the following criteria:
• Is a full service hotel. • Must be built after July 1, 2014 • Includes at least 85 square feet of convention and meeting space per guest
room. • Is located within 1,000 feet of a convention center. • Includes at least $200 million of private investment.
The public contribution is a post-performance incentive to a private owner of the convention center hotel thus the public will not have ownership of the hotel. The bill outlines that the public incentive may only be used for the construction of convention, exhibit or meeting space within the qualified hotel, and the acquisition or construction of related amenities, fixtures, or other improvements. Vote: Passed House 49-23-3, Passed Senate 17-11-1 3rd Sub. HB 379 - Transparency of Ballot Propositions (Wilcox, R.) - Passed This bill provides for the submission and posting of arguments in favor of and against tax increase ballot propositions. It requires a governing body of a taxing entity to conduct a public meeting to allow interested parties to present argument in favor of and against tax increase ballot propositions. It requires a taxing entity to provide a digital audio recording of the public meeting. Vote: Passed House 69-1-5, Passed Senate 26-0-3 HB 380 - Repeal of Housing Relief Expendable Special Revenue Fund (Brown, M.) – Passed This bill repeals the Housing Relief Expendable Special Revenue Fund. The fund is used to assist residents with a $6,000 grant in purchasing newly constructed, never lived-in housing. Residents must have incomes of less than $75,000 (individual) or $150,000 (married couple). Vote: Passed House 68-0-7, Passed Senate 26-0-3 1st Sub. HB 381 – Local Government Interfund Loans (Knotwell, J.) – Passed This bill requires the terms and conditions of a local government interfund loan to be in writing and requires that any interfund loan be noticed and heard in a public hearing. These requirements are similar to those imposed on local government transfers of funds. Exemptions
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were added to the bill for short-term advances from the local district's cash and investment pool to individual funds that are repaid by the end of the fiscal year. Vote: Passed House 71-0-4, Passed Senate 27-0-2 2nd Sub. HB 382 - Limited Purpose Local Government Entities Amendments (Dee, B.) – Passed This bill enacts language clarifying that a special service district is a political subdivision of the state similar to a local district. Vote: Passed House 74-0-1, Passed Senate 25-0-4 HB 388 - Amendments to Transportation Funding (Anderson, J.) – Failed This bill authorizes counties to go to referendum for an additional .25% sales tax to transit. It was nicknamed, “quarter for clean air.” The new 25% sales tax cannot be used for rail infrastructure within Salt Lake County. Enactment of this bill could increase local revenues by up to $91,500,000 in FY 16 if adopted by all eligible localities. Vote: Passed House 58-10-7, No Senate Vote Council Position: Neutral HB 398 – Planning District Amendments (King, B.) – Failed This bill authorizes the creation and governance of a mountainous planning district. In a county of the 1st class, the governing body may establish an area in the foothills, canyons and mountains which permits the appointment of a separate planning commission to oversee all land use within the mountain and canyon area. The qualifications for mountain planning area status are: the area is primarily used for recreational purposes; it is used equally by all residents of the county, including city residents; and it has less than 5% of the county population. A mountain planning area may include all or part of a city or town. Land within the designated mountain area may not be incorporated. Land within the mountain planning commission area may be annexed into a municipality, but the planning commission area is not reduced in size and the mountain planning commission still retains land use authority within the land annexed. Vote: No House vote, No Senate Vote HB 401 – Medicaid Program (Dunnigan, J.) – Passed This bill requires the Health System Reform Task Force to study programs to provide access to healthcare to individuals eligible for Medicaid including proposals for coverage of the optional Medicaid population. The original bill created a two-year pilot program known as Access Utah to provide a defined contribution health benefit to individuals below the federal poverty level and who met other base requirements. Vote: Passed House 60-12-3, Passed Senate 25-1-3
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HB 404 - Court Security Fee Amendments (Ray, P.) – Passed This bill increases the security surcharge by $10 and increases the amount deposited into the State Treasurer’s Court Security Account from $8 to $13. This will generate an additional $3.6 million for court security. This covers the $1.8 million shortfall the AOC projected and increased it by an additional $1.8 million. Vote: Passed House 66-4-5, Passed Senate 22-2-5 Council Position: Support HB 407 - Litigation Transparency Act (Anderegg, J.) – Failed If a political subdivision is being sued, this bill allows the subdivision to demand that the plaintiff disclose the identity of anyone who is contributing more than 5% of the costs to fund the lawsuit. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 408 – Election Requirements Amendments (Christofferson, K.) – Passed This bill changes the deadline for a write-in candidate to file a declaration of candidacy for a regular general election from 30 days to 60 days. It also require a ballot to contain a space for a write-in candidate only if a write-in candidate is qualified for the election—something that is only logistically possible due to the move in the write-in candidate filing deadline date from 30 days before an election to 60 days before an election.
Vote: Passed House 73-0-2, Passed Senate 22-0-7 HB 413 – Voter Accountability in Political Subdivisions (Stratton, K.) – Failed This bill provides for municipal retention elections for city attorneys and city managers every four years. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote 1st Sub. HB 422 - (Last, B.) – Passed This bill requires the county budget officer, in conjunction with legal counsel, to prepare a statement of the legal impact a proposed initiative or referendum will have on a county. The statement is to address issues of property rights, existing laws or ordinances, and potential legal liability questions. Vote: Passed House 74-0-1, Passed Senate 28-0-1 Council Position: Support
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HB 424 - Justice Court Amendments (Stratton, K.) – Failed This bill changes the term of office for a justice court judge from six to four years, after which the judge must be subject to a retention election. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HB 427 - Asset Forfeiture Revisions (Hutchings, E.) – Passed This bill modifies the Forfeiture and Disposition of Property Act to provide that the funds in the State Asset Forfeiture Grant Program may be used for crime victim reparations. Vote: Passed House 67-0-8, Passed Senate 27-0-2 HB 434 - Local Sales and Use Tax Amendments (Nielson, J.) – Failed This bill authorizes the state to institute an internet sales tax, which is projected to increase the total local option sales tax by 5% for local entities. It changes the distribution formula to 50% population, 25% point of sale, 25% fair market value. Currently, distribution is based on 50% population and 50% point of sale. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote 1st Sub. HB 435 - Taxation of Property Amendments (Sagers, D.) – Failed This bill requires the county assessor to consider whether a property has been used in the past for storage of hazardous waste or radioactive waste, and take such factors into account in determining fair market value. Vote: Passed House 68-2-5, No Senate Vote HJR 2 - Business Personal Property (Nielson, J.) – Failed This resolution proposes to amend the constitution to exempt from property tax a business’s personal property. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote HJR 4 - Joint Resolution on Recall Elections (Froerer, G.) – Failed This resolution proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to make the Governor, the State Auditor, State Treasurer, and Attorney General subject to removal from office by a recall election, as provided in statute. Vote: No House Vote, No Senate Vote
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HJR 14 - Joint Resolution on Caregiving (Chavez-Houck, R.) – Passed This resolution expresses support for the efforts of Utah’s family caregivers and for state policies and programs that address the needs of older, vulnerable, or adults with a disability, and their caregivers. Vote: Passed House 71-2-2, Passed Senate 26-0-3
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SENATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS
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SB 12 - Age Limit for Tobacco and Related Products (Reid, S.) – Failed This bill prohibits the possession of tobacco, e-cigarettes, or paraphernalia by an individual less than 21 years of age; and prohibits people younger than 21 years of age from being present at certain establishments where tobacco, e-cigarettes, or paraphernalia is being sold. Vote: Failed in the Senate, 12-16-1 SB 14 - Long-Term Care Partnership (Weiler, T.) – Passed This bill requires the Utah Department of Health to amend the State Medicaid plans to create a qualified long-term care insurance partnership. It gives the department authority to make rules in order to comply with federal laws and regulations relating to qualified long-term care insurance partnerships and qualified long-term care insurance contracts. Vote: Passed Senate 24-0-5, Passed House 71-0-4 1st Sub. SB 19 – Appointment and Qualification of Members of the State Tax Commission (Stephenson, H.) – Passed This bill changes the qualifications and appointment procedures for members of the Utah State Tax Commission. The bill repeals a provision that no more than two members of the same political party can serve on the tax commission and places preference to lawyers and CPAs while requiring knowledge in tax administration and “substantial” knowledge in one or more of the following: excise taxation, income tax, sales and use tax, and corporate tax.
Vote: Passed Senate 22- 4-3, Passed House 64-10-1 1st Sub. SB 21 - State Construction Code Amendments (Dayton, M.) – Passed This bill exempts buildings used exclusively as fruit stands and is no more than 1,000 sq. ft. from state construction code permit requirements. Vote: Passed Senate 25-0-4, Passed House 62-8-5 2nd Sub. SB 22 - Workforce Services Job Listing Amendments (Knudson, P.) – Passed This bill requires all government entities to advertise job openings on the state website. It requires the Division of Purchasing to provide employment contact information to the Department of Workforce Services for private contracts that contract with state entities. Vote: Passed Senate 27-0-2, Passed House 61-6-8 SB 25 - Candidate Certification Amendments (Henderson, D.) – Passed This bill extends the deadline, by one week, for political parties to certify candidates for 2014 only. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 72-0-3
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5th Sub. SB 36 - Voter Information Amendments (Mayne, K.) – Passed This bill places limits on who can have access to voter date of birth which is available only to the government or political parties. A voter can request his voter registration information be classified as ‘private’ if the voter’s life or safety is at risk. The Lieutenant Governor's office has rule-making authority regarding voter information access procedures and standards. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 74-0-1 Council Position: Support 1st Sub. SB 44 - Workers’ Compensation and Employee Misconduct (Mayne, K.) – Passed This bill deals with employees injured on the job while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and the potential to eliminate lost wage benefits. The bill lowers the burden of proof that the controlled substance played a role in the accident from being “a major” contributing cause to just a contributing cause. The bill also transfers the burden of proof to the injured worker to show that the substance was not a contributing factor. Vote: Passed Senate 27-0-2, Passed House 73-0-2 2nd Sub. SB 54 Elections Amendments (Bramble, C.) – Passed This bill amends provisions of the election code relating to nomination of candidates, primary and general elections. This is the “County My Vote” compromise. Vote: Passed Senate 22-4-3, House 49-20-6 1st Sub. SB 57 Autism Service Amendments (Shiozawa, B.) – Passed This bill amends the insurance code to provide health benefit plan coverage for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder. Vote: Passed Senate 24-1-4, Passed House 69-3-3 SB 60 Fuel Excise Tax Amendments (Valentine, J) – Failed This bill reduces the gas tax to 14 cents and replaces the 10.5 cent reduction with a percentage-based fee on fuel. Initially is revenue neutral, but mitigates decline in buying power of per gallon tax and will grow with inflation.
Vote: Passed Senate 26-1-2, Council Position: Support
SB 61 Revisions to Property Tax (Henderson, D.) – Passed This bill amends the requirements for imposing a property tax levy that exceeds the certified tax rate. This legislation makes a distinction between calendar year taxing entities and “county executive calendar year taxing entities”. A county executive calendar year taxing entity is defined as a county that operates under the county executive-council form of government.
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This bill would require a county executive calendar taxing entity that intends to exceed the certified tax rate for the next fiscal year to disclose this intent during a public meeting at least two weeks prior to the general election. There are two additional disclosure requirements that would occur after the general election. One of the disclosure requirements is new and would require that the county provide notice by mail of the proposed tax increase to each property owner at least 14 days prior to the public hearing during which the annual budget is adopted. The second requirement is in current law and would require the county to disclose the tax increase in ¼ page newspaper ads. This legislation also eliminates the August truth in tax public hearing but in tax increase years backs up our budget process one week. Vote: Passed Senate 27-02, Passed House 70-0-5 Council Position: Support 1st Sub. SB 64 - Air Quality Rules and Penalties (Robles, L.) – Failed This bill repeals provisions that prohibit the creation of laws that are more stringent than required by federal regulations. This bill also increases fines on violators of clean air laws, and it specifically outlaws incineration of medical waste within five miles of a residential area beginning in 2015. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote SB 70 State Data Portal Amendments (Henderson, D.) – Passed This bill amends the duties and membership of the transparency advisory board to improve the information on the state website to better inform residents and to prioritize government information that would be valuable for public access. It provides that, by January 2016, the state website will be a point of access for GRAMA requests for persons seeking information from counties, cities and school districts– special and local districts are affected by 2017. Vote: Passed Senate 25-0-4, Passed House 71-0-4, SB 79 - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act (Hillyard, L.) – Passed This bill creates the Utah Electronic Recording Commission to establish electronic recording standards and requires a county of the first or second class to establish procedures to govern electronic recording of documents by July 1, 2016. The Commission is to consist of four county recorders appointed by the governor, and one county commissioner who will be selected by the four recorders. The county recorder is authorized to collect an electronic recording surcharge to recover implementation costs. Vote: Passed Senate 27 -0-2, Passed House 67-0-8
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1st Sub. SB 88 - Child Interview Amendments (Okerlund, R.) – Passed This bill exempts interviews of children at a Children’s Justice Center from GRAMA access. The bill extends to a video or audio recording of the interview, and the recording transcripts. Such materials will usually have to be obtained through court order. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 68-0-7 1st Sub. SB 90 - Voter Residence (Weiler, T.) – Passed This bill modifies the law regarding residence for voting purposes. Vote: Passed Senate 24-0-5, Passed House 70-4-1 SB 91 - School District Modifications (Harper, W.) – Failed This bill would allow a city with at least 50,000 residents, or cities with a combined population of 50,000 who are part of an interlocal agreement, to initiate a vote for a school district split. The city or cities would have to perform a feasibility study and would have to have signatures from at least 10% of each voting precinct to authorize the vote. The bill would also extend the sunset date for capital local levy equalization provisions in a county of the first class from Dec. 31, 2016 to Dec 31, 2020. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote SB 100 - Antidiscrimination Amendments (Urquhart, S.) – Failed This bill provides anti-discrimination protection in housing and employment for gender identity and sexual orientation. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote 2nd Sub. SB 109 - Radon Testing for Home Purchase (Osmond, A.) – Passed This bill establishes an educational campaign regarding radon gas. It requires the Department of Health to develop a statewide electronic awareness campaign to educate the public regarding radon gas, including health risks, testing, options and remediation. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 70-1-4 SB 113 - Public Meetings Amendments (Mayne, K.) – Passed This bill adds “specified body” to its list of definitions, defining such body as “an administrative, executive, or legislative body that is not a public body; consists of three or more members; and includes at least one member who is an elected official of the state or of a political subdivision of the state.” Specified bodies must give 24 hours notice of any meeting to be held on Capitol Hill. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 49-21-5
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SB 114 - Canal Safety Act (Gene, D.) – Failed This bill modifies the provision listing what records constitute protected records; enacts the Canal Safety Act, including requiring the Division of Water Rights to take certain acts; providing for the creation of a canal action list; requiring certain persons to create remediation plans and imposing related requirements; and prohibiting the issuance of grants and loans under certain circumstances. Vote: Passed Senate 16-12-1, No House Vote SB 119 - Sales and Use Tax Amendments (Reid, S.) – Failed This bill expands sales and use tax exemptions for certain manufacturing, processing, producing, operating or research and development, activities. Fiscal impact to local taxing entities sales tax could go down by $2,566,000 FY 2015, $5,388,500 FY 2016. State impact when fully phased in FY 2019, GF reduction of $36,465,000. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote Council Position: Oppose 3rd Sub. SB 120 Shelter Animal Vaccine Amendments (Jenkins, S.) – Passed This bill exempts county animal shelters from obtaining a license as a pharmacy for purposes of handling drugs used for euthanasia or rabies vaccination. Additionally, it allows an animal shelter employee to administer a rabies vaccination to a shelter animal without a veterinarian license provided the employee acts under the supervision of a veterinarian. Vote: Passed Senate 26-1-2, Passed House 70-0-5 Council Position: Support SB 134 - Taxation Related Referendum Amendments (Valentine, J.) – Passed This bill modifies the process for truth-in-taxation referenda by condensing the time that cities have to prepare materials, increasing the available days for citizens to gather signatures and ensuring that the election occurs in the same calendar year. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 72-0-3 2nd Sub. SB 135 – Voter Registration Amendments (Jenkins, S.) – Passed This bill moves the deadline a person can register to vote early from 30 days prior to an election to 15 days prior to an election, moves the deadline a person can register to vote on Election Day from 14 days to 7 days prior to an election, and allows a person to vote provisionally provided he or she registers to vote at least a day before an election. Vote: Passed Senate 26-1-2, Passed House 67-2-6
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1st Sub. SB 136 - Local Election Amendments (Stephenson, H.) – Passed This bill amends provisions regarding the county clerk’s processing of a municipality’s tax law referendum election by significantly reducing the time permitted for delivery, validation and certification of a referendum petitions and makes changes regarding the conduct of a referendum election, including the option to conduct the election entirely by absentee ballot. Vote: Passed Senate 27-0-2, Passed House 69-0-6 4th Sub. SB 139 – Transportation Funding Revisions (Harper, W.) – Failed This bill reallocates $3,122,300 of bond proceeds in the Transportation Investment Fund of 2005 from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to UDOT. It also provides $4 million to the Salt Lake County Council to be used for highway construction, reconstruction or maintenance projects or the enforcement of state motor vehicle and traffic laws. The original bill increased motor vehicle registration on natural gas, electric, hybrid and converted vehicles ranging from $90 - $120. Vote: Passed Senate 22-4-3 1st Sub. SB 148 - Upstart Program Amendments (Adams, S.) – Passed This bill amends provision related to the UPSTART pilot project. It requires the contractor to give priority to preschool children from low income families and preschool children who are English Language learners, if the number of families who would like to participate in the program exceeds the number of participants funded by the legislative appropriation. It requires the State Board of Education to issue a request for proposals for a home-based educational technology program for pre-schooled children that takes effect upon the expiration of the pilot project. Extends the repeal date for the UPSTART pilot project. Vote: Passed Senate 26-1-2, Passed House 52-21-2 2nd Sub. SB 153 - Association Foreclosure Amendments (Urquhart, S.) – Failed This bill provides that a lien on an assessment has priority over a mortgage loan during the first 9 months following a foreclosure. Vote: Failed Senate 8-20-1, No House Vote SB 158 - Cemetery Amendments (Jenkins, S.) – Passed This bill requires ownership of cemetery plots be recorded with the county recorder. Vote: Passed Senate 23-0-6, Passed House 69-2-4
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SB 160 - Workers’ Compensation Amendments (Valentine, J.) – Passed This bill, without softening statutes of limitations, allows parties in a workers’ compensation matter to approach the Labor Commission with a settlement agreement. This bill therefore provides an opportunity to seek a settlement without allowing those already barred to have a new chance or creating a duty to settle. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 69-0-6 SB 161 - Criminal Surcharge Amendments (Harper, W.) – Failed This bill revises the distribution of money collected from criminal fees to give local government 5% more and the state 5% less. Vote: No Senate Votes, No House Votes 2nd Sub. SB 169 - Public Meetings Materials Requirements (Henderson, D.) – Passed This bill requires the legislative body of a county, city or town and a public body that is an administrative advisory, executive or legislative body of the State to require an individual who publicly presents or provides electronic information at an open meeting to provide an electronic or hard copy of the electronic information. The information must relate to an item on the public body’s meeting agenda.
Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 71-0-4 Council Position: Support SB 174 - Emergency Fiscal Procedures Counties (Henderson, D.) – Passed This bill permits counties to make emergency budget changes to deal with a natural or fiscal emergency. Vote: Passed Senate 29-0-0, Passed House 72-0-3 Council Position: Support SB 176 - Local Funding for Local Healthcare Amendments (Okerlund, R.) – Passed This bill addresses general fund appropriations for local health care and authorizes use of local option sales and use tax for local health needs. Vote: Passed Senate 27-0-2, Passed House 72-0-3 1st Sub. SB 180 – Property Tax Modifications (Harper, W.) – Passed This bill amends the rate for the multicounty assessing and collecting levy (“levy”), the allocation of revenue from the levy, requires the county to increase its county additional property tax rate to offset the decrease to the levy, provides the allocation of money in the Property Tax Valuation Agency Fund; consolidates additional county property tax administration levies, and amends funding for the Multicounty Appraisal Trust. It basically takes
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the State Auditor out of the process and equalizes the assessment and collection fees among the counties. Vote: Passed Senate 22-3-4, Passed House 68-2-5 1st Sub. SB 184 – Local Government Inspection Amendments (Adams, S.) – Passed This bill enacts language related to construction inspections by local government. It requires that building fees collected by a local government shall ensure that a construction project receives a prompt inspection. If the entity cannot provide a building inspection within three days, the entity must engage an independent inspector. Vote: Passed Senate 28-0-1, Passed House 60-3-12 3rd Sub. SB 216 - Political Subdivisions Revisions (Mayne, K.) – Passed This bill addresses the future of Salt Lake County’s unincorporated area by freezing the boundaries of townships through November 2015. During this time the county and stakeholders will study several issues like incorporation of townships and the creation of a sales tax district. The original bill would have allowed the entire unincorporated area to incorporate as one non-contiguous city which has its own city council, the county mayor is the city executive officer, and city administrative and operational functions are provided by the county.
Vote: Passed Senate 27-0-2, Passed House 67-4-4. Council Position: Support 1st Sub. SB 221 – Indigent Counsel in Juvenile Court (Weiler, T.) – Passed This bill defines who is entitled to have counsel in juvenile court proceedings, and who is entitled to have court-appointed counsel in those proceedings. It clarifies that a court may appoint counsel only to a parent or legal guardian who is deemed to be indigent under Utah law. The legislation further limits the right to have counsel appointed to only those cases which are initiated by or are directly related to actions by the state or a political subdivision.
Vote: Passed Senate 25-1-3, Passed house 69-0-6 SB 228 - Geographic Diversity Amendments (Reid, S.) – Failed This bill requires that an initiative of referendum petition in a city, county, or town meet geographic requirements within a majority of the precincts. The bill requires geographic diversity instead of a referendum or initiative supported solely by voters from a small area of the county or municipality. Vote: Passed Senate 25-2-2, No House Vote
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SB 232 – School Safety Tip Line (Thatcher, D.) – Passed This bill establishes the School Safety Tip Line Commission within the Office of the Attorney General to pursue the viability of creating a phone number for school safety calls. Includes a repeal date, July 1, 2015. Vote: Passed Senate 23-0-6, Passed House 67-2-6 SB 235 Transportation Revisions (Harper, W.) – Failed This bill provides that a governing entity may not charge storage fees for a vehicle impounded as evidence. Additionally, the bill requires an international airport in counties of the first class to provide space for at least nine car rental agencies located on the premises of the airport, while prohibiting the airport from regulating traffic enforcement outside of the airport grounds. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote SB 237 - Urban Farming Amendments (Adams, J.) – Passed This bill amends the definition of urban farming to include Davis County and reduces the rollback from 10 years to 5 years. Vote: Passed Senate 20-7-2, Passed House 39-35-1 Council Position: Support 1st Sub. SB 241 – County Jail Contracting Amendments (Jenkins, S.) – Passed This bill allows a county to refuse condition-of-probation State prisoners if the State doesn’t pay jail reimbursement. Vote: Passed Senate 26-1-2, Passed House 68-0-7 Council Position: Support SB 243 - Air Quality Programs (Adams, Stuart) – Failed The bill would place a $1 per month charge on gas and electric bills. The money would be deposited into a fund administered by a newly established board to allocate money for clean air projects. The procedure for selecting projects and the membership of the board are as yet undetermined. Customers would have the option annually to opt-out of paying the surcharge. Vote: Passed Senate 15-11-3, No House vote 1st Sub. SB 244 – Modifications to Property Tax (Osmond, A.) – Passed This bill authorizes a county treasurer to provide certain property tax notices by electronic mail under certain circumstances if a taxpayer elects to receive the property tax notice by electronic mail. In the event that an email address is invalid, the county treasurer shall mail the notice to the property tax owner. Vote: Passed Senate 25-0-4, Passed House 66-4-5
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SB 245 - Internet Voting Pilot Project Amendments (Bramble, C.) – Passed This bill amends provisions of the Internet Voting Pilot Project to permit certain uniformed service voters and voters with a disability, in a participating county, to register to vote and vote electronically. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 61-1-13 1st Sub. SB 249 – Transportation Rights-of-Way Safety Amendments (Bramble, C) – Failed This bill expands the definition of state transportation purposes within transportation rights-of-way provisions to include the construction and maintenance of pathways for pedestrians and other non-motorized transportation to enhance traffic safety and efficiency on the highway. It would allow eminent domain for trails under limited circumstances. Vote: Passed Senate 17-11-1, No House vote SB 250 – Public Duty Doctrine (Bramble, C.) – Passed This bill provides that a general duty that a governmental entity owes to the public does not create a specific duty to an individual member of the public unless there is a special relationship between the governmental entity and the individual member of the public. This bill is a restatement of the common law public duty doctrine and is in response to a recent Utah Supreme Court case. Vote: Passed Senate 18-0-11, Passed House 72-0-3 1st Sub. SB 251 - Amendments to Medicaid and Healthcare (Shiozawa, B.) – Failed This bill creates a premium partnership program to allow individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid and who are below 100% of the federal poverty level to receive subsidies to purchase private health care insurance. Vote: Passed Senate 19-6-4, No House Vote SB 253 – Distracted Driver Amendments (Urquhart, S.) – Passed This bill modifies the Traffic Code by amending handheld wireless communication device provisions. It prohibits texting, e-mailing, playing games and dialing phone numbers. The bill allows using GPS for navigation and talking on the phone is still permitted. Vote: Passed Senate 17-8-4, Passed House 41-28-6 SB 256 - Asset Forfeiture Amendments (Stephenson, H.) – Passed This bill changes attorney’s fee provisions to specify that only a prevailing property owner is entitled to an award of costs and attorney’s fees in asset forfeiture matters. The current language provides that the “prevailing party” is entitled to such an award. Vote: Passed Senate 25-0-4, Passed House 68-0-7
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SB 261 - Emergency Room Service Amendments (Valentine, J.) – Failed This bill repeals a provision that allows an accountable care organization to audit emergency room services provided to a recipient enrolled in an accountable care plan to determine if the recipient received nonemergency care. Additionally, the bill repeals a provision that allows an accountable care organization to establish differential payment for emergency and nonemergency care provided in an emergency room. Vote: Passed Senate 24-0-5, No House Vote SB 265: Law Enforcement Services Account (Robles, L.) – Passed This bill provides that funds in the Law Enforcement Services Account are to be distributed to law enforcement agencies based on the average number of occupied halfway house beds and the number of parole violator center beds occupied within their jurisdiction. Vote: Senate Passed 27-0-2, Passed House 72-0-3 1st Sub. SB 267 - Governmental Immunity Act Amendments (Weiler, T.) – Passed This bill amends provisions relating to the timeliness of a “notice of claim” against a governmental entity. It allows a claimant who in good faith files a notice of claim with an incorrect governmental entity an additional 30 days beyond the normal statutory time limit to re-file the claim with the correct entity provided the claimant provides evidence of the good faith efforts to fill with the incorrect governmental entity. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 67-1-7 Council Position: Oppose SB 268 - Prison Relocation Commission (Stevenson, J.) – Passed This bill would create the Prison Relocation Commission. The bill requires the commission to study and make recommendations on how and where to move the state prison. The commission will consist of three senators, four representatives, and the executive directors of the Department of Corrections and the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice. The latter two will be non-voting members. $5 million is set aside for prison siting services. The commission will disband on July 1, 2017. Vote: Passed Senate 21-0-7, Passed House 64-8-3 SB 270 - Repeal of Prison Relocation and Development Authority (Stevenson, J.) – Passed This bill repeals the current repeal date of the Prison Relocation and Development Authority (PRADA), which is set to expire on July 1, 2014. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 71-0-4
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1st Sub. SB 271 - Postjudgement Interest Amendments (Bramble, C.) – Passed This bill would raise the interest rate on civil and criminal judgments from the federal rate plus 2% to the federal rate plus 10%. Vote: Passed Senate 26-0-3, Passed House 55-14-6 SB 272 - Expansion of Medicaid Program (Davis, G.) – Failed This bill requires the Department of Health to amend the state Medicaid plan to expand Medicaid eligibility to the optional populations under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote SJR 2 - Joint Resolution on Legislative Power (Osmond, A.) – Failed This resolution proposes to amend the constitution to permit the Legislature to require that any law it passes related to taxation be referred to the people. Vote: No Senate Vote, No House Vote
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SJR 20 MASTER STUDY RESOLUTION
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1 MASTER STUDY RESOLUTION
2 2014 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Chief Sponsor: Ralph Okerlund
5 House Sponsor: Brad L. Dee
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7 LONG TITLE
8 General Description:
9 This joint resolution of the Legislature gives the Legislative Management Committee
10 items of study it may assign to the appropriate interim committee.
11 Highlighted Provisions:
12 This resolution:
13 < gives the Legislative Management Committee items of study it may assign to the
14 appropriate interim committee during the 2014 legislative interim;
15 < directs interim committees assigned these studies to study and make
16 recommendations for legislative action to the 60th Legislature before the 2015
17 Annual General Session; and
18 < suggests that the Legislative Management Committee, in approving studies, give
19 consideration to the available time of legislators and the budget and capacity of staff
20 to respond to the assigned studies.
21 Special Clauses:
22 None
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24 Be it resolved by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
25 WHEREAS, the Legislative Management Committee is created by law as a permanent
26 committee to receive and assign matters for interim study by committees of the Legislature;
27 and
28 WHEREAS, the 60th Legislature has determined that certain legislative issues require
29 additional investigation and study:
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30 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislative Management Committee
31 is given the following items of study to assign to the appropriate interim committee with the
32 duty to study and make recommendations for legislative action to the 60th Legislature before
33 the 2015 Annual General Session.
34 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Legislative Management Committee, in
35 making study assignments from this list and in approving study requests for individual
36 committees, give consideration to the available time of legislators and the budget and capacity
37 of staff to respond adequately to the number and complexity of the assignments given.
38 1. General Assistance Funding - to study changing the current reimbursement of
39 general assistance to the General Fund to its own account.
40 2. Motor Vehicle Insurance -- Settlement of Claims - to study provisions relating to
41 unfair claim settlement practices on certain motor vehicle insurance policies (S.B. 197, with
42 amendments).
43 3. Age Eligibility for Mixed Martial Arts - to study whether to allow the Pete Suazo
44 Utah Athletic Commission to make rules to allow mixed martial arts competition for youth
45 between ages 16-17.
46 4. Alcohol Service - to study the regulation of alcohol service in restaurants (H.B.
47 285).
48 5. Application of Antidiscrimination Act - to study applying Title 34A, Chapter 5,
49 Utah Antidiscrimination Act, to nonprofit organizations.
50 6. Community Associations - to study changes to the Condominium Ownership Act
51 and the Community Association Act relating to fines and reserve accounts (H.B. 172).
52 7. Deferred Deposit Lending - to study amendments to the Check Cashing and
53 Deferred Deposit Lending Registration Act to address deferred deposit loans (H.B. 47).
54 8. Dramshop Coverage - to study whether to modify the amount of dramshop coverage
55 a retail licensee is required to carry (H.B. 312 and 1st Sub. H.B. 312).
56 9. Healthcare Practice Acts - to study the uniformity of practice acts of health care
57 professionals licensed, certified, or registered by the Division of Occupational and Professional
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58 Licensing.
59 10. Healthy Workplace - to study and address abusive workplace environments.
60 11. Insurance Contracts - to study discretionary language in insurance contracts.
61 12. Insurance Regulation - to study and review the regulation of insurance (H.B. 76).
62 13. Living Wage - to study increasing the minimum wage (H.B. 73).
63 14. Manufacturing Licensees - to study issues related to alcoholic beverage
64 manufacturing licensees (H.B. 352).
65 15. New Automobile Franchise Act - to study state regulation of new automobile
66 dealership placement (H.B. 54).
67 16. Nonprofit Organizations - to study standards in receiving tax funds, whether
68 nonprofit organizations are fulfilling their purposes efficiently, and what percentage of the
69 funds they receive are used toward fulfilling their purposes.
70 17. Prudent Banking - to study a resolution urging Congress to pass H.R. 129, the
71 Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2013.
72 18. Title and Escrow - to study legislation related to title and escrow issues.
73 19. Uniform Building Code Commission - to study the repeal of the Uniform Building
74 Code Commission.
75 20. Workplace Discrimination - to study workplace discrimination, including the
76 higher education grievance procedure (H.B. 359).
77 21. "Ghost" Student Enrolling - to study "ghost" student enrolling, recruitment, and
78 funding between private companies and local education agencies.
79 22. Charter School Enrollment Capacity - to study proposals regarding an "at
80 enrollment capacity" charter school using or borrowing the unused enrollment capacity of
81 another charter school.
82 23. Competency-Based Education - to study issues related to competency-based
83 education.
84 24. Competency-Based Education Model - to study how to implement an educational
85 approach in which students only advance upon mastery of subject matter.
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86 25. Competency-Based Funding - to study issues related to competency-based funding
87 for higher education.
88 26. Contribution and Credit for Education Funding - to study setting up a tax
89 deductible fund within the Education Fund that would be credited to the donor's income tax.
90 This would add to the Education Fund but would save 40,000 Utahns $250 million in
91 Alternative Minimum Taxes (H.B. 153).
92 27. Education Best Practices - to study and determine the value of establishing an
93 education innovation research and development effort in partnership with the private business
94 sector.
95 28. Education Funding - to study long-term funding options for public education.
96 29. Effective Principals and Teachers - to study what makes a principal and a teacher
97 effective.
98 30. Equalizing Capital Expenditures for School Buildings - to study the disparity for
99 equalization of capital expenditures for school buildings and maintenance and methods for
100 equalizing capital expenditures for school buildings.
101 31. Guidance Counseling - to study the use of online tools to improve the work of high
102 school guidance counselors.
103 32. Guidance Counselor Independence - to study requiring guidance counselors to be
104 independent from Local Education Agencies.
105 33. Licensed Private Childcare and Prekindergarten Providers vs. Unlicensed
106 Government Contracted Providers - to study what is happening in the marketplace when
107 unlicensed providers are contracting with government entities to provide day care or
108 prekindergarten services, such as Local Education Agencies and districts, that unfairly compete
109 with licensed private providers.
110 34. Limited English Proficiency - to study how to provide assistance to English
111 Learning Students with limited English proficiency.
112 35. Low-Performing Schools - to study incentives for low-performing schools.
113 36. Moving from STEM to STEAM - to study adding the arts to Utah's Science,
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114 Technology, Engineering, and Math initiative (STEM) and funding, and review what it would
115 take to centralize all Utah arts funding under the leadership of the STEM effort and move to a
116 STEAM effort.
117 37. New Development Impact on School Enrollment - to study ways municipalities,
118 counties, land developers, and school officials might coordinate planning to anticipate new
119 housing developments' impact on school enrollment.
120 38. Objectivity in Delivering Scientific Content in Schools - to study ways to ensure
121 objectivity in delivering scientific content and encouraging student inquiry in public schools.
122 The teaching of biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human
123 cloning can cause controversy. These topics need to be addressed as such in schools, instead of
124 as "fact."
125 39. Parent Trigger Law - to study allowing parents to petition to change the
126 management of a low-performing school.
127 40. Parental Leave for School Activities - to study issues related to employers granting
128 parental leave to attend certain school activities (H.C.R. 6).
129 41. Public Education - to study issues related to public education funding.
130 42. Public Education Funding Needs - to study the funding needs of public education
131 (H.B. 403).
132 43. Public School Counselors - to study the adequacy of current funding for public
133 school counselors.
134 44. Quality Teaching Block Grant Funding - to study the reinstatement of professional
135 development quality teaching block grant funding.
136 45. Strategic Education Plan - to study a research-based strategic education plan.
137 46. Student Fee Use - to study the use of student fees for political purposes.
138 47. Student Privacy - to study issues related to the release of public school student
139 information (H.B. 169).
140 48. Sustainable Education Funding Model - to study how to get to prerecession levels
141 in education funding and a sustainable model for funding public education.
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142 49. Teacher Colleges - to study standards for teacher colleges.
143 50. Technology in Schools - to study the use of technology in schools and the benefits
144 and drawbacks, including a cost benefit analysis.
145 51. Film Incentives - to study whether to expand the eligibility of film-related industry
146 work for tax incentives (H.B. 204).
147 52. Housing Loan Fund - to study funding for the Olene Walker Housing Loan Fund
148 and low-income housing.
149 53. Local Economic Development - to study the creation of a local economic
150 development tax incentive through the use of an interlocal agreement (H.B. 167).
151 54. Tourism - to study tourism opportunities and constraints.
152 55. Absentee Ballot - to study provisions related to voting by absentee ballot (H.B.
153 252).
154 56. Ballots on Social Media - to study whether to post ballots on social media.
155 57. Campaign Financing - to study revisions to campaign finance laws.
156 58. Capital Lease Programs - to study the effectiveness of current state capital lease
157 programs and oversight.
158 59. Career Service Review Board Hearing Process - to study rules and procedures for
159 holding Career Service Review Board hearings.
160 60. Costs of Records Under GRAMA - to study when costs for records under the
161 Government Records Access and Management Act should be waived.
162 61. Disclosure Filings - to study the timing of disclosure filings. During municipal
163 election years, political issues committees, political action committees, and corporations are
164 required to file a report by August 31. Would it make more sense for these groups to file the
165 disclosures before the municipal primary earlier in August?
166 62. Election Clean Up - to study and review the annual list of technical clean up items
167 in the Election Code.
168 63. Election Complaint Review - to study whether to create a Utah Elections Board to
169 review and take certain actions on election complaints (H.B. 144).
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170 64. Election Day Voter Registration - to study implementing an election day voter
171 registration pilot project to test the advisability of implementing election day voter registration
172 in Utah (H.B. 156).
173 65. Elections and Campaign Reform - to study any additional recommendations for
174 elections and campaign reform resulting from the House Investigative Committee Report.
175 66. Electors for Presidential Elections - to study revisions to laws governing electors
176 for presidential elections.
177 67. Expungement of Administrative Disciplinary Action - to study whether to provide
178 for the expungement of agency records related to an agency licensee under certain
179 circumstances (H.B. 124).
180 68. Federal Shutdown - to study the procedures for a federal government shutdown.
181 69. Government Employment - to study changes to current law governing merit-based
182 government employment.
183 70. Government Meetings Search Engine - to study requiring a one-stop search engine
184 for state, and perhaps local, government meetings.
185 71. Grants and Contracting Procedures - to study streamlining grants and contracting
186 procedures to create an opportunity for state entities and nonprofit organizations to discuss
187 contracting challenges and develop win-win solutions.
188 72. Initiative and Referendum Sponsors - to study whether sponsors of an initiative or
189 a referendum should be able to rescind an application or stop a ballot measure once it is in
190 progress or once it has qualified for the ballot.
191 73. Lobbyist Definition - to study issues related to the definition of a lobbyist. For
192 example, when an expert accompanies a registered lobbyist in communicating with public
193 officials, should that individual be exempt from registering as a lobbyist?
194 74. Lobbyist Disclosure Laws - to study whether local disclosure laws should be
195 elaborated to match the Utah Code. Many municipal and county disclosure laws lack
196 definitions and guidance that exist at the state level.
197 75. Lobbyist Registration - to study exemptions to lobbyist registration and mandatory
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198 online training.
199 76. Municipal Initiatives - to study issues related to municipal initiatives. For example,
200 the state may reject an initiative application if the proposed law is nonsensical or
201 unconstitutional. Should cities and counties have the same ability?
202 77. Nonbinding Opinion Questions - to study the submission of nonbinding opinion
203 questions to the voters.
204 78. Online Signing of Initiative and Referenda Petitions - to study the process to
205 implement the lieutenant governor's recommendations related to allowing voters to sign
206 initiatives and referenda petitions online.
207 79. Privatizing State Golf Courses - to study and work with the Division of Parks and
208 Recreation to finalize the Request for Information (RFI) process and continue with the Request
209 for Qualifications (RFQ) and Request for Proposals (RFP) processes in order to get the best
210 value for operating and maintaining state golf courses (H.B. 145).
211 80. Public Buildings - to study an alternative method for funding the construction,
212 operation, and maintenance of public buildings through private capital investments. Look at
213 the benefits and possible obstacles of transferring the risk involved in financing and
214 constructing buildings to accommodate growth.
215 81. Public Money in Campaigns - to study public money used for campaign purposes.
216 82. Recall Elections - to study whether to add to the Elections Code, subject to
217 passage of an enabling amendment to the Utah Constitution, provisions for the recall of the
218 governor, the state auditor, the state treasurer, or the attorney general (H.B. 63).
219 83. Signature Gathering - to study issues related to signature gatherers. For example, a
220 person who verifies signatures on a petition cannot also sign the signature packet. If the person
221 does, should only the signature be disqualified or should the entire packet be rejected? Should
222 signature gatherers be Utah residents?
223 84. State Board of Elections - to study the pros and cons of establishing a State Board
224 of Elections (H.B. 144).
225 85. State Employee Leave Programs - to study issues related to employee leave
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226 programs, including the creation of the State Employees' Annual Leave Program II Trust Fund
227 Act (S.B. 269).
228 86. State Fair - to study issues related to the state fair, the State Fair Park, and state fair
229 funding.
230 87. State Fair Buildings - to study structural improvements to the buildings at the State
231 Fair Park.
232 88. State Motor Pool - to study the number of motor vehicles in the state motor pool,
233 their locations, how extensively they are used, and methods of tracking their location and use.
234 89. Access to Investigational Medications, Products, and Devices - to study providing
235 terminally ill patients with access to investigational drugs, biological products, and devices that
236 have completed at least phase I clinical trials.
237 90. Accountable Care Organizations - to study the effectiveness of accountable care
238 organizations in reducing healthcare costs for Medicaid, whether this model works, and
239 whether it is better than fee-for-service.
240 91. Aging and Adult Services - to study issues related to vulnerable adults (1st Sub.
241 H.B. 267).
242 92. Assisted Living Facilities - to study whether assisted living facilities are meeting
243 their residents' needs, whether administrative rule or legislation is required to establish a ratio
244 of certified nurse assistants to residents, and whether the Bureau of Health Facility Licensing is
245 effective in regulating the facilities.
246 93. Caregiving - to study the impact of demographic changes on the services provided
247 to seniors, the state's response, and support for caregivers (H.J.R. 14).
248 94. Child Welfare System and Children and Family Issues - to study the current status
249 and budget practices of the state child welfare system, performance audits, fundamental liberty
250 interests of parents and children, and family preservation policies and outcomes.
251 95. Community Health Worker - to study the certification of individuals who meet
252 certain criteria as a certified community health worker (S.B. 66).
253 96. Foster Families - to study issues related to foster and foster-adoptive families.
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254 97. Health care for the "Medically Frail" - to study how "medically frail" individuals
255 who are not eligible for Medicaid or any state or federal assistance receive and pay for health
256 care, who these individuals are, what medical conditions they have, and their health outcomes.
257 98. Medicaid Client Costs - to study the small percentage of Medicaid clients who
258 account for 50% of Medicaid expenditures, to identify these clients' problems, and to determine
259 how to better address their needs and reduce costs.
260 99. Medicaid Waiver - to study the Katie Beckett Medicaid Waiver, including what
261 Idaho did, what it would look like in Utah, what it would cost, and how many families would
262 be helped.
263 100. Medical Language Interpreter Act - to study and review improvements or
264 necessary updates to the Medical Language Interpreter Act.
265 101. Mental Illness Funding - to study how mental illness is currently funded under
266 Medicaid, whether this method works, and whether it needs to be changed.
267 102. Reducing Medicaid, Mental Health, and Pharmaceutical Costs - to study
268 strategies to reduce Medicaid, mental health, and pharmaceutical costs, including preferred
269 drug lists vs. other strategies, such as direct feedback to providers about costs of prescriptions.
270 103. Rights of Children Conceived Through Artificial Insemination - to study whether
271 the state should regulate fertility clinics, set up a registry for donors and children conceived
272 through artificial insemination, require clinics to screen donors, establish guidelines, etc.
273 104. Vending Services by the Blind - to study vending services operated by blind
274 persons and whether to grant the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired the
275 authority to establish a vending stand or food services for operation by blind persons.
276 105. Asbestos Settlement - to study issues related to asbestos settlements.
277 106. Asset Protection Trusts - to study what, if any, is the public policy justification
278 for asset protection trusts (H.B. 162).
279 107. Bail Bond Agents - to study whether bail bond agents should be under the
280 Department of Insurance or the Bureau of Criminal Identification. Also review licensing surety
281 collateralization when a bond is processed, when and how a penalty is paid, and other issues
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282 related to the industry.
283 108. Civil Rights Restoration - to study all nonviolent felonies to determine when a
284 person may become eligible for various civil rights to be restored.
285 109. Collateral Consequences of Conviction - to study the enactment of a uniform law
286 providing procedures for identifying collateral consequences of convictions for criminal
287 offenses.
288 110. Counsel for Defendants - to study indigent counsel for criminal defendants.
289 111. Court Rulings on Polygamy - to study recent court rulings related to polygamy
290 and impact of those rulings on state statute.
291 112. Criminal Justice System Review - to study and comprehensively review the
292 criminal justice system, including arrest, prosecution and defense, sentencing, incarceration,
293 and postincarceration rehabilitation and recidivism.
294 113. Cyber Bullying - to study increased penalties for intentionally or knowingly using
295 the Internet, a cell phone, or other devices to hurt or threaten an individual and endanger the
296 individual's health or safety.
297 114. Determining Imputed Income - to study whether courts should consider whether a
298 parent was a stay-at-home parent when determining imputed income (H.B. 348).
299 115. Divorced Fathers - to study the rights of divorced fathers.
300 116. Domestic Asset Protection Trust - to study changes to current domestic asset
301 protection trust law, including provisions regarding real property transferred to the trust,
302 clarifying a settlor-trustee's role in determining discretionary distributions, and clarifying
303 claims for relief for fraudulent transfers (1st Sub. H.B. 208).
304 117. E-Warrants - to study the current e-warrant system, including the process,
305 templates, and future plans.
306 118. Electronic Cigarettes - to study the regulation of electronic cigarettes (H.B. 112).
307 119. Family Expenses - to study the conditions of contracts or agreements between a
308 husband and a wife related to family expenses (H.B. 179).
309 120. Federal Regulatory Overreach - to study the regulatory overreach of federal
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310 agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of
311 Education, etc.
312 121. Federalism and the "Police Power" - to study and review United States Supreme
313 Court and Circuit Court cases on federalism and the "police power" jurisdiction of the states.
314 122. Implementing Putative Father Registry Compact - to study and develop
315 legislation to amend Utah adoption law to implement the Compact for Interstate Sharing of
316 Putative Father Registry Information (S.B. 63).
317 123. Litigation Transparency - to study whether to require that a person that sues the
318 state or a political subdivision disclose the person's source of funding (H.B. 407).
319 124. Nurse Practitioner Prescribing Authority - to study whether to allow an advanced
320 practice registered nurse to prescribe a schedule II or a schedule III controlled substance
321 without mandatory physician consultation.
322 125. Process Serving - to study and review the structure, duties, and authority of
323 constables, private investigators, special function officers, and process servers to delineate
324 requirements for each category, and to determine what process serving can be done and by
325 whom. Also establish demarcations and identification.
326 126. Protecting Wives and Children in Polygamy - to study ways to protect families,
327 specifically wives and children, in polygamous relationships.
328 127. Rape Kit Processing - to study establishing additional rights for victims of a
329 sexual offense (1st Sub. H.B. 157).
330 128. Religious Freedom Issues - to study religious freedom for students, businesses,
331 and churches.
332 129. Safety Belt Use - to study whether safety belt use should be considered
333 contributory or comparative negligence in civil cases where a person is seeking recovery for
334 injuries, or whether a primary seatbelt law should be enacted (H.B. 305).
335 130. Tobacco Use by Minors - to study the age limit corresponding with tobacco and
336 related products (S.B. 12).
337 131. Vehicle Accident Penalties - to study enhanced penalties for injuries or deaths in
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338 vehicle accidents with pedestrians and bicyclists.
339 132. Weapons Restrictions - to study weapons restrictions on veterans who have
340 post-traumatic stress disorder but have not gone through a formal commitment hearing, when
341 they are "listed" as mentally defective according to the opinion of a United States Department
342 of Veterans Affairs doctor without having gone through due process.
343 133. Allowable Charges - to study whether to make adjustments to the allowable
344 charges assessed by private automobile booting companies.
345 134. Correctional Procurement - to study the process by which goods and services are
346 procured through Utah Correctional Industries, including whether approval from the director of
347 Utah Correctional Industries should continue to be required when determining that it is not
348 feasible for a procurement unit to buy a procurement item from Utah Correctional Industries
349 (H.B. 343).
350 135. Corrections Construction Industry - to study ways to strengthen the corrections
351 construction industry to help inmates succeed.
352 136. Insurance for Fallen Officers' Families - to study providing an additional
353 insurance benefit, a $1 million policy, for the surviving spouse and dependent children of a
354 public safety officer killed in the line of duty.
355 137. Key Access to Address Fire Safety - to study a private business requirement to
356 have Knox Boxes key access for fire safety access and the possibility that keys to Knox Boxes
357 are not properly accounted for, enabling inappropriate access to private businesses.
358 138. Mental Illness in County Jails - to study the treatment of mental illness in county
359 jails, including how to improve outcome, reduce costs, and address forced medication hearings
360 and guidelines for treatment of substance abuse in jails.
361 139. Protection for Police - to study and evaluate the use of bulletproof glass on police
362 cars and consider other less expensive alternatives.
363 140. Stolen Property Database - to study establishing a state database for stolen
364 property to enhance the process for identifying stolen items and facilitating their return to their
365 lawful owners. Also require recyclers to check the database before purchasing. Contractors and
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366 farmers need more protection from thieves who steal and sell to recyclers.
367 141. Transferring Strike Force - to study whether to transfer from the Office of the
368 Attorney General to the Department of Public Safety the management of the multiagency strike
369 force created to combat violent and other major felony crimes associated with illegal
370 immigration and human trafficking and to investigate fraudulent document crimes (H.B. 100).
371 142. Agriculture Protection Act Appeals - to study whether the Agriculture Protection
372 Act should have any appeals process.
373 143. Air - to study issues related to the definition of "air."
374 144. Air Emissions - to study whether to authorize the Air Quality Board to establish
375 rules requiring the Division of Air Quality to evaluate air pollution controls at a facility and
376 authorizing the Division of Air Quality to require the implementation of additional air pollution
377 controls at a facility under certain circumstances (H.B. 180).
378 145. Canal Safety Act - to study ways to assess the risks associated with canals and
379 efforts to remediate those risks (S.B. 114 and H.B. 370).
380 146. Clean Air Fund Utilization - to study the utilization and effectiveness of current
381 clean air funds administered by the Division of Air Quality.
382 147. Clean Coal Power Plants - to study ways to support clean coal power plants.
383 148. Conversion of Homes to Cleaner Fuels - to study the impact of programs
384 subsidizing conversions of homes with wood as their sole source of heat -- and listed on the
385 "sole source" list in nonattainment areas -- to natural gas and other cleaner fuels.
386 149. Costs of Federal Actions Regarding State Trust Lands - to study the full costs and
387 impacts to the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) and to the trust as
388 result of federal actions that amount to de facto takings of SITLA lands (monuments, species
389 designation, wilderness, de facto wilderness, air quality, RS 2477, etc.).
390 150. Definition of "Air Contaminant" - to study whether to change the definition of
391 "air contaminant" to clarify that natural components of the atmosphere do not constitute a
392 contaminant (H.B. 229).
393 151. Disposition of Sovereign Lands Management Account Funds - to study whether
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394 to require that funds from the Sovereign Lands Management Account only be expended to
395 manage and benefit sovereign lands and state lands (H.B. 421).
396 152. Environmental Policy Act - to study the creation of a State Environmental Policy
397 Act, which states already have this act, do they work, and whether Utah needs something
398 similar in view of potential acquisition of public federal lands.
399 153. Euthanasia Standards - to study and identify which animal shelters use
400 compressed carbon monoxide and which use euthanasia by injection, and examine how much it
401 costs to use each method. Also, address whether the state has a euthanasia policy.
402 154. Jurisdiction Over Federal Areas Within the States - to study jurisdiction over
403 federal areas within the states, based on the report of the Interdepartmental Committee for the
404 Study of Jurisdiction Over Federal Areas Within the States, and the current status of the
405 conclusions of this report.
406 155. Legislative Discussions on Labeling Genetically Modified Foods - to study
407 whether to appoint legislative members to participate in multistate discussions involving
408 agreements to label genetically modified food (H.B. 205).
409 156. Liability Related to Private Sales of Raw Milk - to study private sales of raw milk
410 between a dairy owner and a private individual, and holding the state and health care plans
411 harmless via written contracts and insurance riders.
412 157. Medical Waste Incineration - to study and conduct an analysis of the best
413 available control technology for pathologic, carcinogenic, and chemotherapeutic medical waste
414 streams.
415 158. Municipal Water Rights - to study whether municipalities should be required to
416 disclose their water rights assets.
417 159. Payments In Lieu of Taxes - to study the consequences and costs, including
418 opportunity costs, associated with the uncertainty created by Congress's failure or refusal to
419 fully fund Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) on a permanent and mandatory basis.
420 160. Pesticides - to study changes to current laws governing pesticides.
421 161. Reducing Air Pollution - to study methods to reduce air pollution in
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422 nonattainment areas.
423 162. Risks of Forest Overgrowth - to study the risk to air quality, watersheds, wildlife,
424 habitat, and persons and property from disease-ridden, pest-infested, overgrown forests in the
425 state.
426 163. State Parks - to study and assess the conditions of state parks and whether
427 funding and fees are adequate.
428 164. State Regulations Impacting Small Irrigation and Ditch Companies - to study the
429 difficulty that small irrigation and ditch companies are having complying with recent state
430 regulations that apply primarily to canal companies (H.B. 298).
431 165. State Resource Stewardship Coordinator for Air Quality - to study the need for a
432 state resource stewardship coordinator to work with all state agencies to implement best
433 practices to improve air quality (2nd Sub. H.B. 38).
434 166. Stream Relocation Notification - to study requirements to notify affected parties
435 of stream alteration.
436 167. Surface and Mineral Rights - to study issues related to surface and mineral rights.
437 168. Tier III Fuel Production - to study the options for encouraging low sulfur fuel
438 production and sales in the state of Utah.
439 169. Water Reuse - to study issues related to reuse water and waste water (H.B. 371).
440 170. Wild Animal Damage - to study wild horse and burro damage related to state
441 trust lands and federal lands.
442 171. Wildfire Mitigation - to study incentives for wildfire mitigation in the
443 wildfire-urban interface.
444 172. Interior Design - to study interior design licensure.
445 173. Construction and Fire Codes - to study whether to allow a county legislative body
446 of a county of the fourth, fifth, or sixth class to modify the State Fire Code Act and the State
447 Construction Code within the unincorporated areas of the counties if certain conditions are met
448 (H.B. 328).
449 174. County Governance - to study the governance and internal controls in Utah's
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450 county governments.
451 175. Good Landlord Program - to study local governments' implementation of the
452 Good Landlord Program.
453 176. Local Governments Qualifying as a Contract Customer - to study whether to
454 authorize a municipality or county to qualify as a contract customer, develop requirements for a
455 municipality or county to qualify as a contract customer, and whether to require the Public
456 Service Commission to determine appropriate charges and credits for participating customers
457 within a municipality or county who do not pay a separate demand charge (1st Sub. H.B. 110).
458 177. Municipal Business Licensing - to study whether to exempt certain businesses
459 from municipal licensure (2nd Sub. H.B. 258).
460 178. Planning Districts - to study changes to current law governing planning districts.
461 179. School Planning and Zoning - to study municipal and county land use provisions
462 related to a school (H.B. 104).
463 180. Voter Accountability - to study providing municipal retention elections (H.B.
464 413).
465 181. Digital Media Technology or Equipment - to study the creation of a Digital
466 Media Technology or Equipment Fund to be used for student education and commercial
467 leasing and to encourage production of digital media film, television production, video gaming,
468 and national commercial productions within the state (S.B. 266).
469 182. Drone Technology - to study regulation of the private, commercial, and
470 government use of drone technology.
471 183. Geographic Information Systems and Digital Mapping Technology - to study and
472 update statutes related to the expectations and provision of geographic information systems and
473 digital mapping technology by the Automated Geographic Reference Center of the Department
474 of Technology Services.
475 184. Integrated Utility Networks - to study the future of integrated utility networks,
476 including distributed generation and solar networks, net metering, infrastructure upgrades,
477 variability on the system, and cost impacts.
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478 185. Interstate Transmission Line Corridors - to study the impact on Utah and options
479 for addressing impacts.
480 186. Intrastate Transmission Lines - to study issues related to intrastate transmission
481 lines. With various agencies involved in electrical transmission line regulation and approval,
482 what controls can Utah and its agencies and regulatory entities have over these transmission
483 lines?
484 187. Open Access and Electrical Deregulation - to study how open access is a form of
485 electrical deregulation.
486 188. Parity of Communication Assessments - to study the parity of communication
487 assessments for fees, surcharges, and taxes across telecommunication providers.
488 189. Prohibition of Electronic Data Collection Assistance - to study whether to
489 prohibit cooperation between a federal agency that collects electronic data and any political
490 subdivisions of the state (H.B. 161).
491 190. RELAY UTAH Program - to study the modernization of Utah Code Section
492 54-8b-10, which imposes a telephone surcharge to provide hearing and speech impaired
493 persons with telecommunication devices, including:
494 1. whether the statute update should reflect modern telecommunications technology and
495 usage;
496 2. how current technology trends have impacted program demand; and
497 3. if the program should be moved from the Public Service Commission to an agency with
498 the infrastructure better suited to administer a statewide public assistance program.
499 191. Renewable Electric Power - to study community choice aggregation for
500 renewable electric power purchasing and generation.
501 192. Solar Power - to study solar power development and the impact on the provision
502 of electrical power.
503 193. Transmission Corridor Master Planning - to study issues related to transmission
504 corridor master planning.
505 194. Utah Science Center Authority - to study updates and revisions to the Utah
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506 Science Center Authority.
507 195. Utah's Competitive Energy Cost Advantage - to study deregulation, price
508 comparisons, Renewable Portfolio Standards impacts in other states, the cost of "Choice," etc.
509 196. 501(c)(3) Charitable Fundraising - to study whether 501(c)(3) organizations that
510 have occasional concession sales to raise money for the purpose of giving the proceeds away to
511 charitable causes should be subject to sales taxes.
512 197. Business Personal Property Tax Exemption - to study whether to amend the Utah
513 Constitution to provide a property tax exemption for business-owned tangible personal
514 property (H.J.R. 2).
515 198. Compressed Natural Gas Vehicle Tax Credits and Rebates - to study tax credits
516 and rebates for compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles. Utah has tax credits for CNG
517 conversions and electric cars. How would an actual tax rebate work? What are the potential
518 funding sources? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
519 199. Distribution of Local Sales and Use Tax - to study the distribution of local sales
520 and use taxes if a sales and use tax on remote sales is required or allowed to be collected in the
521 future (H.B. 434).
522 200. Historical Preservation Tax Credits - to study and review possible improvements
523 to state historical preservation tax credits.
524 201. Military Installation Development Authority - to study tax issues relating to a
525 Military Installation Development Authority.
526 202. Renewable Energy Tax Credits - to study whether to harmonize corporate and
527 individual income tax credits for renewable energy.
528 203. Report on Tax Provisions - to study the State Tax Commission Report on Tax
529 Provisions (2nd Sub. H.B. 51).
530 204. Residential Assessed Valuation Property Tax Change - to study replacing the
531 residential assessed valuation property tax with a residential tax based on size or cost of
532 government services, which would increase fairness and lower administration costs.
533 205. Sales Tax Reductions on Sales with Trade-Ins - to study the policy of only
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534 licensed dealers being able to take advantage of sales tax reductions on sales with trade-ins.
535 206. Severance Tax - to study changes to current law governing severance taxes.
536 207. Tangible Personal Property Tax Exemption - to study and address a property tax
537 exemption for certain tangible personal property (H.B. 391).
538 208. Tax on Fine Art - to study whether to remove the sales tax on fine art.
539 209. Tax Rate Calculation - to study issues related to the certified tax rate calculation.
540 210. Taxing Social Security - to study state taxation of Social Security benefits.
541 211. Financial Security in Retirement - to study how to help people prepare to be
542 financially self-sufficient in retirement.
543 212. Independent Entities - to study and review independent entities, including what
544 they are and what they do.
545 213. Postretirement Reemployment - to study the costs associated with postretirement
546 reemployment.
547 214. Retirement Account Exemption - to study a retirement account exemption for
548 short-term workers.
549 215. Retirement Contribution Rates - to study and receive a presentation on
550 preliminary retirement contribution rates.
551 216. Retirement Impacts of Qualified Domestic Relations Orders After a Divorce if
552 the Employed Party Never Remarries - to study a glitch in the Utah Code that would prevent a
553 surviving spouse from receiving the surviving spouse's portion of the retirement benefits if the
554 employed party never remarries.
555 217. Retirement Systems Overview - to study a retirement systems overview and
556 actuarial information.
557 218. Utah Retirement Systems - to study and review the Utah Retirement Systems,
558 what it does, and how it accomplishes its mission.
559 219. Utah Retirement Systems Benefits Claims - to study statutes of limitations for
560 benefits claims in the Utah Retirement Systems.
561 220. Utah Retirement Systems Modifications - to study and review annual Utah
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562 Retirement Systems modifications, including technical amendments.
563 221. Utah Retirement Tier II Systems - to study pension reform follow-up
564 implementation issues.
565 222. Airport Authority - to study issues related to the Salt Lake Airport Authority.
566 223. Airports - to study issues related to airports, including management, leasing and
567 vendors, and oversight authority.
568 224. Driving Under the Influence Standards - to study whether to change one of the
569 standards for a driving under the influence violation from "being under the influence of
570 alcohol, any drug, or the combined influence of alcohol and any drug to a degree that renders
571 the person incapable of safely operating a vehicle" to "being impaired to the slightest degree by
572 alcohol, any drug, any substance, or any combination thereof" (1st Sub. H.B. 303).
573 225. Gas Tax - to study issues related to the gas tax.
574 226. Impounding Vehicles - to study impounding vehicles of unlicensed drivers when
575 no other driver is present (H.B. 79).
576 227. Natural Gas - to study issues related to natural gas.
577 228. Salvage Vehicles - to study the impact of salvage vehicles and when a vehicle
578 should be salvaged.
579 229. School Bus Traffic Safety - to study whether to allow school districts to contract
580 for technology that will generate a recorded image of a motor vehicle driver passing a school
581 bus when the red signal light is flashing, and to receive and submit the recorded image to law
582 enforcement for possible investigation (1st Sub. H.B. 406).
583 230. Transit Funding - to study funding for mass transit and issues related to mass
584 transit funding (H.B. 210).
585 231. Transportation in Salt Lake County - to study transportation in Salt Lake County,
586 particularly at the Salt Lake International Airport, and its effect on the state. Also study the
587 regulation of concessions, including charter buses, shuttles, taxis, limousines, rental cars, etc.
588 How should it be done to maximize its benefit to the entire state? (S.B. 235)
589 232. UTA Bus Routes - to study current bus routes, especially current east-west routes,
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590 express buses, and any proposed new bus routes to help east riders' access to TRAX and
591 Frontrunner.
592 233. Vehicle Title Transfer Sales - to study whether to require a confirmation or an
593 affidavit validating fair market value in vehicle title transfer sales.
594 234. Waiver for Purple Heart - to study granting a waiver relating to motorcycles for
595 Purple Heart recipients.
596 235. Standards for Allocating Utah's Water Supply - to study the standards for
597 allocating Utah's water supply, including:
598 1. standards for the allocation of water for domestic use and whether the standards should
599 be revised to accurately reflect actual domestic beneficial use;
600 2. standards for the allocation of irrigation water based on flood irrigation and whether
601 standards should be revised based on pipeline based sprinkler irrigations systems;
602 3. whether the reduction or elimination of natural vegetative water consumption should
603 result in a recognition of the reduced water use and:
604 a. a corresponding reduction in the water requirement associated with developing the land;
605 and
606 b. recognition of a landowner's right to put to alternative use the water previously consumed
607 by the eliminated natural vegetation;
608 4. whether current allocation standards comply with existing Utah statutory and case law;
609 and
610 5. ways that these revisions can identify overallocation, resulting in the availability of
611 additional water resources and reduced costs that can fuel the growth of Utah's economy.
612 236. Bill Sponsorship - to study a process that would allow more than one legislator to
613 be designated as a primary sponsor of a bill.
614 237. Legislative Process Ethics - to study and review policies requiring ethical
615 descriptions of proposed legislation by staff and legislators.
616 238. Standing Committee Agenda Practices - to study legislative rule changes to
617 address pulling bills from a standing committee agenda at the end of a legislative session to
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618 avoid the possibility of a bill failing in committee and improving the legislation's chances of
619 receiving floor debate.
620 239. To study how to effectively and fairly control workers' compensation system
621 medical costs including the cost of hospital care and treatment and prescription drugs.
622 240. Title and escrow insurance related amendments.
623 241. Highway safety issues related to non-motorized vehicles.
624 242. Whether sufficient due process protection is provided a police officer involved in
625 a critical incident.
626 243. The economic benefits of removing the three year economic life component of the
627 manufacturer's sales tax exemption.
628 244. H.B. 263 - Use of Business Names.
629 245. Salt Lake Airport management, leases, governance, and oversight.
630 246. Asbestos funds double dipping.
631 247. Utah Health Safety Net and coverage.
632 248. Medicaid entitlement fraud/super-utilizers.
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GENERAL REFERENCES
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Salt Lake County Council
District 1 – Arlyn Bradshaw Isaac Higham, Council Advisor
District 2 – Michael Jensen, Chair Ryan Perry, Council Advisor
District 3 – Aimee Winder Newton Adam Gardiner, Council Advisor
District 4 – Sam Granato
Leslie Reberg, Council Advisor
District 5 – Steve DeBry Brian Maxwell, Council Advisor
District 6 – Max Burdick
Sally Jacobsen, Council Advisor
Salt Lake County Elected Officials
Assessor – Kevin Jacobs
Chief Deputy - Richard Burgi
Auditor – Greg Hawkins
Chief Deputy - Lonn Litchfield
Clerk – Sherrie Swensen
Chief Deputy - Dahnelle Burton-Lee
District Attorney – Sim Gill
Chief Deputy - Ralph Chamness
Recorder – Gary Ott
Chief Deputy - Julie Dole
Sheriff – James Winder
Under Sheriff - Scott Carver
Surveyor – Reid Demman
Chief Deputy - Phil Lanouette
Treasurer – Wayne Cushing
Chief Deputy - Randy Wightman
At Large A – Randy Horiuchi Heather Mastakas, Council Advisor
At Large B – Richard Snelgrove Bart Barker, Council Advisor
At Large C – Jim Bradley
Kerry Nakamura, Council Advisor
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Salt Lake County Mayor’s OfficeCounty Mayor Ben McAdams
Deputy Mayor/ Chief Administration Officer Nichole Dunn
Associate Deputy Mayor and Senior Advisor to the Mayor Justin Miller
Chief Financial Officer Darrin Casper
Director of Government Relations and Senior Advisor to the Mayor Jeremy Keele
Senior Advisor to the Mayor Kimberly Barnett
Communications Director Alyson Heyrend
Deputy Communication Director Michelle Schmitt
Diversity Affairs Director Rebecca Sanchez
Director of Regional Development Carlton Christensen
Acting Administrative
Services Director Linda Hamilton
Associate Director Megan Hillyard
Contracts and Procurement Jason Yocom
Facilities Management Wayne Marion
Human Resources Michael Ongkiko
Information Services Mike Bailey
Printing Division Dave Strensrud
Records Management & Archives
Terry Nelson
Community Services Director
Erin Litvack
Associate Director Martin Jensen
Center for the Arts Phil Jordon
Clark Planetarium Seth Jarvis
Discovery Gateway Maria Farrington
Parks and Recreation Michele Nekota
Salt Palace & Convention Visitor Bureau
Scott Beck
Zoo, Arts, and Parks Victoria Bourns
Human Services Director Lori Bays
Associate Director Sarah Brenna
Aging Services Becky Kapp
Behavior Health Pat Fleming
Community Resources and Development Mike Gallegos
Criminal Justice Services Gary Edwards
Youth Services Pat Berckman
USU Extension JayDee Gunnell
Public Works Director
Russ Wall
Township Executive Patrick Leary
Animal Services Mike Reberg
Engineering and Flood Control
Scott Baird
Operations Kevyn Smeltzer
Planning and Development Services
Rolen Yoshinaga
Solid Waste Management John Ioannou
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REPRESENTATIVES
Ronda R. Menlove (R) District 1 Box Elder, Tooele 17680 North 5200 West Garland, UT 84312 435.458.9115 David, Lifferth (R) District 2 Utah 8782 N Pinehurst Dr. Eagle Mountain, UT 84005 435.720.7838 Jack R. Draxler (R) District 3 Cache 1946 North 1650 East North Logan, UT 84341 435.752.2668 Edward Redd (R) District 4 Cache, Rich 1675 E 1460 N Logan, UT 84341 435.363.5239 Curt Webb (R) District 5 Cache 233 North Main Logan, UT 43210 435.753.0215 Jacob Anderegg (R) District 6 Utah PO BOX 934 Lehi, UT 84103 801.317.3742
Ryan Wilcox (R) District 7 Weber 1240 Douglas Ogden, UT 84404 801.200.5595 Gage Froerer (R) District 8 Weber PO BOX 379 Hunstville, UT 84317 801.745.0505 Jeremy A. Peterson (R) District 9 Weber 2227 Jefferson Avenue Ogden, UT 84401 801.317.5386 Dixon M. Pitcher (R) District 10 Weber 6470 Bybee Drive Ogden, UT 84403 801.710.9150 Brad L. Dee (R) – Majority Leader District 11 Davis, Weber 111 West 5600 South Ogden, UT 84405 801.479.5495 Richard A. Greenwood (R) District 12 Weber 3704 West 6050 South Roy, UT 84067 801.985.3280
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Paul Ray (R) District 13 Davis PO BOX 977 Clearfield, UT 84089 801.725.2719 Curtis Oda (R) District 14 Davis PO BOX 824 Clearfield, UT 84089 801.773.9796 Brad R. Wilson (R) – Exec. Appr. Vice Chair District 15 Davis 1423 Whispering Meadows Lane Kaysville, UT 84037 801.425.1028 Stephen G. Handy (R) District 16 Davis 1355 East 625 North Layton, UT 84040 801.979.8711 Stewart Barlow (R) District 17 Davis 940 Signal Hill Fruit Heights, UT 84037 801.289.6699 Roger E. Barrus (R) District 18 Davis Centerville, UT 84014 801.292.2266 Jim Nielson (R) District 19 Davis 331 East 1900 South Bountiful, UT 84010 801.550.3474
Rebecca P. Edwards (R) District 20 Davis 1121 Eaglewood Loop North Salt Lake, UT 84054 801.554.1968 Douglas Sagers (R) District 21 Tooele 243 Home Town Court Tooele, UT 84074 435.843.3754 Susan Duckworth (D) District 22 Salt Lake 2901 South 8750 West Magna, UT 84044 801.250.0728 Jennifer M. Seelig (D) – Minority Leader District 23 Salt Lake 986 West Sterling Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84116 801.519.2544 Rebecca Chavez-Houck (D) – Min. Asst. Whip District 24 Salt Lake 643 16th Avenue Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801.608.4467 Joel K. Briscoe (D) – Min. Caucus Manager District 25 Salt Lake 1124 East 600 South Salt Lake City, UT 84102 801.946.9791 Angela Romero (D) District 26 Salt Lake PO BOX 25732 Salt Lake City, UT 84125 801.722.4972
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Michael Kennedy (R) District 27 Utah 659 E 200 N Alpine, UT 84004 801.763.1376 Brian S. King (D) District 28 Salt Lake 1855 Michigan Avenue Salt Lake City, UT 84108 801.583.6039 Lee Perry (R) District 29 Box Elder, Weber 977 W 2390 S Perry, UT 84302 435.720.7838 Janice D. Fisher (D) District 30 Salt Lake 6411 W 3785 S West Valley, UT 84128 801.250.2698 Larry B. Wiley (D) District 31 Salt Lake 1450 West 3300 South West Valley City, UT 84119 801.487.8095 LaVar Christensen (R) District 32 Salt Lake 12308 S Raleigh Ct. Draper, UT 84020 801.966.2636 Craig Hall (D) District 33 Salt Lake 3428 Harrisonwood Dr. West Valley City, UT 84119 801.573.1774
Johnny Anderson (R) District 34 Salt Lake 4289 South El Camino Street Taylorsville, UT 84119 801.988.4383 Mark A. Wheatley (D) District 35 Salt Lake 447 East Moss Creek Drive Murray, UT 84107 801.264.8844 Patrice M. Arent (D) District 36 Salt Lake 3665 East 3800 South Salt Lake City, UT 84109 801.326.1515 Carol Spackman Moss (D) District 37 Salt Lake 2712 East Kelly Lane Salt Lake City, UT 84117 801.272.6507 Eric K. Hutchings (R) District 38 Salt Lake 5438 West Stony Ridge Circle Kearns, UT 84118 801.963.2639 James A. Dunnigan (R) District 39 Salt Lake 3105 West 5400 South Suite 6 Taylorsville, UT 84118 801.968.8594 Lynn N. Hemingway (D) District 40 Salt Lake 1513 Ashford Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84124 801.231.2153
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Daniel McCay (R) District 41 Salt Lake 3364 Kollman Way Riverton, UT 84065 801.810.4110 Jim Bird (R) District 42 Salt Lake 5111 West Woodworth Road West Jordan, UT 84084 801.280.9056 Earl Tanner (R) District 43 Salt Lake 6672 Nottingham Cir. West Jordan, UT 84084 801.792.2156 Tim M. Cosgrove (D) – Minority Whip District 44 Salt Lake 477 East 6325 South Murray, UT 84107 801.685.0673 Steve Eliason (R) District 45 Salt Lake 8157 South Grambling Way Sandy, UT 84094 801.673.4748 Marie H. Poulson (D) District 46 Salt Lake 7037 Horizon Circle Salt Lake City, UT 84121 801.942.5390 Ken Ivory (R) District 47 Salt Lake 8393 South 2010 West West Jordan, UT 84088 801.694.8380
Stratton Keven (R) District 48 Utah 1313 E 800 N Orem, UT 84097 801.836.6010 Robert Spendlove (R) District 49 Salt Lake 8491 Treasure Mt. Sandy, UT 84093 801.560.5394 Rich Cunningham (R) District 50 Salt Lake 2568 W Horseshoe Cir South Jordan, UT 84095 801.722.4942 Gregory H. Hughes (R) – Majority Whip District 51 Salt Lake 14057 South New Saddle Road Draper, UT 84020 801.572.5305 John Knotwell (R) District 52 Salt Lake 5328 W Shotters Ridge Cir Herriman, UT 84096 801.560.0400 Melvin Brown (R) - Exec. Appr. Chair District 53 Daggett, Morgan, Rich, Summit, Duchesne PO BOX 697 Coalville, UT 84017 435.336.3309 Kraig Powell (R) District 54 Summit, Wasatch 943 East 530 North Heber City, UT 84032 435.654.1550
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John G. Mathis (R) District 55 Duchesne, Uintah 384 East 2500 South Vernal, UT 84078 435.789.7316 Kay Christofferson (R) District 56 Utah 1256 E 1500 N Lehi, UT 84043 801.592.5709 Brian Greene (R) District 57 Utah 1113 E Mahogany Lane Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 801.889.5693 Jon Cox (R) District 58 Sanpete, Juab 405 E Canyon Rd. Ephraim, UT 84627 801.851.4457 Val L. Peterson (R) District 59 Utah 528 West 1160 North Orem, UT 84057 801.224.4473 Dana Layton (R) District 60 Utah 984 S 1000 E Orem, UT 84097 801.226.1690 Keith Grover (R) District 61 Utah 1374 West 1940 North Provo, UT 84604 801.319.0170
Jon Stanard (R) District 62 Washington PO BOX 910772 St. George, UT 84791 435.414.4631 Dean Sanpei (R) – House Rules Chair District 63 Utah 2145 North 1450 East Provo, UT 84604 801.979.5711 Becky Lockhart (R) – Speaker District 64 Utah 1754 South Nevada Avenue Provo, UT 84606 801.377.7428 Francis D. Gibson (R) District 65 Utah 208 South 680 West Mapleton, UT 84664 801.491.2051 Mike McKell (R) District 66 Utah 1444 E 1820 S Spanish Fork, UT 84660 801.210.1495 Marc Roberts (R) District 67 Utah 1352 Cedar Pass Dr. Santaquin, UT 84655 801.210.0155 Merrill Nelson (R) District 68 Beaver, Juab, Millard, Tooele, Utah 162 S 800 E Granstville, UT 84029 801.971.2172
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Jerry Anderson (D) District 69 Duchesne, Carbon, Emery, Grand 300 W 200 N Price, UT 84501 435.630.3888 Kay L. McIff (R) District 70 Emery, Sanpete, Sevier, Grand 225 North 100 East Richfield, UT 84701 435.896.4461 Bradley G. Last (R) District 71 Iron, Washington 640 East 700 South, Suite 303 St. George, UT 84770 435.635.7334 John Westwood (R) District 72 Iron 751 S 2075 W Cedar City, UT 84720 435.586.6961
Michael E. Noel (R) District 73 Beaver, San Juan, Piute, Wayne, Garfield, Kane PO BOX 301 Kanab, UT 84741 435.644.3996 V. Lowry Snow (R) District 74 Washington 912 West 1600 South, Suite B-200 St. George, UT 84770 435.703.3688 Don L. Ipson (R) – Majority Assist. Whip District 75 Washington 549 Diagonal Street St. George, UT 84770 435.673.8216
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Luz Robles (D) – Minority Caucus Manager District 1 Salt Lake 1004 North Morton Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84104 801.521.0407 Jim Dabakis (D) District 2 Salt Lake 54 B Street Salt Lake City, UT 84103 801.656.8269 Gene Davis (D) – Min. Leader District 3 Salt Lake 865 Parkway Avenues Salt Lake City, UT 84106 801.273.6393 Patricia W. Jones (D) – Asst. Min. Whip District 4 Salt Lake 4571 Sycamore Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84117 Karen Mayne (D) – Min. Whip District 5 Salt Lake 5044 West Bannock Circle West Valley City, UT 84120 801.968.7756 Wayne, Harper (R) District 6 Salt Lake 2094 Surrey Cir Taylorsville, UT 84129 801.566.5466 Deidre, Henderson (R) District 7 Salt Lake 462 Riverton Cross Rd Spanish Fork, UT 84660 801.787.6197
Brian, Shiozawa (R) District 8 Salt Lake 3177 Fort Union Blvd. Salt Lake City, UT 84121 801.889.7450 Wayne Niederhauser (R) – President District 9 Salt Lake 3182 East Granite Woods Lane Sandy, UT 84092 801.942.3398 Aaron Osmond (R) District 10 Salt Lake 11466 Country Knoll Road South Jordan, UT 84095 801.888.872 Howard A. Stephenson (R) District 11 Salt Lake, Utah 1038 East 13590 South Draper, UT 84020 Daniel W. Thatcher (R) District 12 Salt Lake, Tooele 6352 West City Vistas Way West Valley City, UT 84128 801.759.4746 Mark B. Madsen (R) District 13 Tooele, Utah PO BOX 572 Lehi, UT 84043 801.361.4787 John L. Valentine (R) – Rules Chair District 14 Utah 857 East 970 North Orem, UT 84097 801.224.1693
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Margaret Dayton (R) District 15 Utah 97 West Westview Drive Orem, UT 84058 81.221.0623 Curtis S. Bramble (R) District 16 Utah 3663 North 870 East Provo, UT 84604 801.226.3663 Peter C. Knudson (R) – Asst. Maj. Whip District 17 Box Elder, Cache, Tooele 1209 Michelle Drive Brigham City, UT 84302 435.723.2035 Stuart C. Reid (R) District 18 Davis, Morgan, Weber 2155 Grant Avenue #125 Ogden, UT 84401 801.337.4182 Allen M. Christensen (R) District 19 Morgan, Summit, Weber 1233 East 2250 North North Ogden, UT 84414 801.782.5600 Scott K. Jenkins (R) District 20 Davis, Weber 4385 West 1975 North Plain City, UT 84404 801.731.5120 Jerry W. Stevenson (R) – Exec Appr. Vice-Chair District 21 Davis 466 South 1700 West Layton, UT 84041 801.773.5486
Stuart Adams (R) – Majority Whip District 22 Davis, Salt Lake 3271 East 1875 North Layton, UT 84040 801.971.2001 Todd Weiler (R) District 23 Davis 1248 West 1900 South Woods Cross, UT 84087 801.599.9823 Ralph Okerlund (R) – Majority Leader District 24 Juab, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier, Wayne, Beaver, Garfield, Kane, Millard, Utah 248 South 500 West Monroe, UT 84754 435.527.3370 Lyle W. Hillyard (R) - Exec. Appr. Chair District 25 Cache, Rich 175 East 100 North Logan, UT 84321 435.753.0043 Kevin Van Tassell (R) District 26 Daggett, Duchesne, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch 3424 West 1500 North Vernal, UT 84078 435.789.0724 David P. Hinkins (R) District 27 Carbon, Emery, Grand, San Juan, Utah, Wasatch PO BOX 485 Orangeville, UT 84537 435.748.2828
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Evan Vickers (R) District 28 Beaver, Iron, and Washington 2166 N Cobble Creek Dr Cedar City, UT 84721 435.586.4399
Stephen H. Urquhart (R) District 29 Washington 634 East 1100 South St. George, UT 84790 435.668.7759