HB15 | Victim Rights Amendments | This bill allows investigations to be reviewed at the request of a victim or victim's family | Support | Rep. Eliason | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SB32 | Indigent Defense Act Amendments | providing for defense of indigent inmates, including providing for the Indigent Inmate Trust Fund | Support | Sen. Weiler | House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact |
SB34 | Affordable Housing Modifications | This bill modifies provisions related to a municipality's and a county's general plan related to moderate income housing | Support | Sen. Anderegg | House / return to Rules due to fiscal impact |
HB38 | Administrative Appeal Rights | Permits an aggrieved person to appeal a determination, of a director, of the Division of Antidiscrimination and Labor, dismissing a complaint alleging housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act | Support | Rep. Dunnigan/Sen. Bramble | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SB45 | Domestic Violence Revision | This bill adds aggravated cruelty to an animal to the list of offenses that may qualify as a domestic violence offense. | Following | Sen. Christensen | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HB47 | Early Childhood Coordination Amendments | This bill creates the Early Childhood Utah Advisory Council and the Governor's Early Childhood Commission | Support | Rep. Snow / Sen. Millner | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HB53 | Victim Communication Amendments | Enacts the Privileged Communications with Victim Advocates Act, including; providing a purpose statement, providing for privilege for communications, addressing examination of victim advocates. | Support | Rep. Snow / Sen. Weiler | Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB71 | Health Education Amendments | Provides that health education instruction may include information about the medical characteristics, effectiveness, and limitations of contraceptive methods or devices | Priority Support | Rep. Ward | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SB83 | Partnership for Healthy Communities | This bill creates the Partnerships for Healthy Communities Grant Program | Support | Sen. Millner | House 3rd Reading Calendar for Senate bills |
SB88 | Crime Victims Restitution Amendments | This Bill modifies restitution criteria to include expenses for security measures put in place by a victim in response to a criminal offense. | Support | Sen. Iwamoto / Rep. Hall | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SB97 | Medicaid Program Revisions | This bill repeals the expansion of the state Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and changes the sales tax rate. | Oppose | Sen. Anderegg | Returned to Senate Rules Committee |
HB103 | Utah Intergenerational Poverty Work and Self-sufficiency Tax Credit | Enacts a refundable state earned income tax credit for certain individuals who are experiencing intergenerational poverty | Priority Support | Rep. Spendlove | House Rules Committee |
SB103 | Victim Targeting Penalty Enhancements | Provides for an enhanced penalty for a criminal offense if the offender acted against an individual because of the offender's perception of the individual's ancestry, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, or sexual orientation | Support | Sen. Thatcher | Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar |
SB110 | Family Medical Unpaid Leave Provisions | This bill enacts provisions to family and medical unpaid leave | Priority Support | Sen. Hemmert | Senate- 2nd reading/circled |
HB113 | Hygiene Tax Act | Creates a sales and use tax exemption for feminine hygiene products, incontinence care items, and diapers. | Support | Rep. Duckworth | Returned to House Rules Committee |
HB129 | Campaign Amendments | permits a candidate for public office to use campaign funds to pay childcare expenses while the candidate is engaged in campaign activities | Priority Support | Rep. Hall / Rep. Pitcher / Sen. Henderson | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SB134 | Campus Safety Amendments | This bill enacts provisions related to campus safety plans and training at institutions of higher education | Support | Sen. Iwamoto | House/ return to Rules due to fiscal impact |
HB136 | Abortion Amendments | prohibits an abortion from being performed after the unborn child reaches 15 weeks gestational age except under certain circumstances | Oppose | Rep. Acton | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB137 | Domestic Violence Enhancement Amendments | Increases the enhancement penalty for a subsequent domestic violence conviction from five to ten years | Following | Rep. Pitcher | Sent for enrolling |
SB147 | Lobbyist Licensing Modifications | This bill amends provisions of the Lobbyist Disclosure and Regulation Act. | Following | Sen. Ipson | Senate/ placed on Concurrence Calendar |
HB154 | Mental Health Protections for First Responders | establishes a temporary working group to study a first responder's workers' compensation claim due to mental stress | Following | Rep. Kwan / Sen. Mayne | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HB166 | Down Syndrome Nondiscrimination Abortion Act | after expressly permitted by a court of binding authority, prohibits a person from performing, inducing, or attempting to perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman who is seeking the abortion solely because an unborn child has or may have Down syndrome | Oppose | Rep. Lisonbee / Sen. Bramble | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HB178 | Health Care Charges | permits the Department of Health to create and maintain a health care price transparency tool that is accessible by the public | Support | Rep. Daw | Senate 3rd Reading Calendar |
HB190 | Liability of Firearm Custody | A firearm custodian is strictly liable for personal injury or property damage proximately caused by the discharge of the firearm custodian's firearm if the discharge results from conduct that constitutes a felony | Following | Rep. Stoddard | House Judiciary Comm. |
HB192 | Statute of Limitations Amendments | increases the statute of limitations for a criminal offense when the identification of a perpetrator is made through DNA. | Following | Rep. Arent | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HB204 | Employment Selection Procedures Act Amendments | Amends the Employment Selection Procedures Act to prohibit an employer from inquiring into an applicant's compensation history. | Following | Rep.Wheatley | Motion to Recommend Failed |
HB208 | Safe Routes to School Program | This bill requires the Department of Transportation to implement a program to provide safe routes to school | Support | Rep. Harrison | Senate 3rd Reading Calendar |
HB209 | Extreme Risk Protective Order | enables a family member or law enforcement to ask a court to restrain a person from possessing any firearms or ammunition for a specified length of time | Support | Rep. Handy | House Rules Committee |
HB210 | Medicaid Expansion Program Revisions | This bill amends provisions relating to Medicaid expansion. Permits funds from the Medicaid Expansion Fund to be used for the full optional population under the Affordable Care Act. | Priority Support | Rep. Ward | House Rules Committee |
HB213 | Promotion of Student Loan Forgiveness | This bill enacts the Promotion of Student Loan Forgiveness Programs Act. | Support | Rep. Duckworth | Senate/ placed on 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB217 | Open Carry Near Schools Amendments | Prohibits carrying a dangerous weapon within 500 feet of an elementary or secondary school. | Support | Rep. Briscoe | Motion to Recommend Failed |
HB234 | Marriage Amendments | Imposes and age, below which an individual may not marry; and makes technical and conforming amendments. | Following | Rep. Romero | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB238 | Marriage License Fees Amendments | increases an additional amount added to a marriage license fee to provide funding for the operation of shelters for victims of domestic violence; repeals a marriage license applicant's option to not pay the additional amount | Support | Rep. Romero | Amended - Returned to Rules |
HB243 | Domestic Violence Modifications | Provides that certain criminal penalties for carrying a concealed firearm without a permit do not apply to a victim of domestic violence or dating violence who is not otherwise prohibited from possessing a firearm, for a limited period after the day on which the victim is issued a protective order. | Oppose | Rep. Watkins | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB253 | Domestic Violence Response Amendments | This bill amends provisions relating to the pretrial and post conviction monitoring of a domestic violence defendant. | Following | Rep. Spendlove | House Judiciary Committee - Held |
HB260 | Access Utah Promise Scholarship Program | This bill creates the Access Utah Promise Scholarship Program and repeals certain other scholarship programs | Support | Rep Owens | House/ placed on Concurrence Calendar |
HB270 | Criminal Code Amendments | This bill changes the intent provisions for the crime of distribution of an intimate image from intent to cause emotional distress to knowing that the distribution would cause a reasonable person emotional distress. | Following | Rep. McKell | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB275 | Contraception for Women Prisoners | This bill requires that jails must continue to allow female prisoners access to contraceptives. | Support | Rep. Dailey-Provost | Returned to Rules by Health and Human Services Comm |
HB287 | Sex Offense Amendments | This bill provides that sexual contact is without the consent of the victim if the victim is over the age of 18 and the actor holds a position of special trust. | Following | Rep. Ivory | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB318 | Inmate Restrictions Standards Amendments | This bill creates standards for the treatment of pregnant inmates | Priority Support | Rep. Pitcher | Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HB390 | Workplace Protections | Expands Utah's Anti-Discrimination Act to cover all workers by lowering the threshold of employees an employer must have in order to comply with the act (15 to 5) | Priority Support | Rep. Hutchings | House Committee - sent to Rules/ substituted |
HB399 | Prohibition of the Practice of Conversion Therapy upon Minors | This bill prohibits certain mental health therapists from providing conversion therapy to a minor | Support | Rep. Hall | 4th Sub - House Rules Committee |
H5430 | Prohibition of Genital Mutilation | This bill prohibits female genital mutilation and provides a penalty. | Support | Rep. Ivory | House 3rd Reading Calendar for House bills |
HB442 | Family Leave Amendments | This bill requires certain executive branch and higher education employers to offer and administer parental leave. | Support | Rep. Weight | House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee |
HB451 | Victim Address Confidentiality Program | Creates an address confidentiality program which would give victims substitute, government-managed addresses to use in place of their physical address. Mail would be routed to the substitute address and then forwarded to the victim's actual address, decreasing the victim's vulnerability to offenders who attempt to locate them. | Support | Rep. Pitcher / Sen. Weiler | House Health and Human Services Committee - Returned to Rules |
HCR6 | Concurrent Resolution Designating May 5 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and LGBT+ Awareness Day | This concurrent resolution designates May 5 as "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and LGBT+ Awareness Day." | Support | Rep. Romero / Sen. Escamilla | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HCR16 | Concurrent Resolution Designating Utah Women's Voter Registration Day | This concurrent resolution designates February 14 as Utah Women's Voter Registration Day | Support | Rep. Ballard / Sen. Henderson | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HJR3 | Joint Resolution Adopting Privilege Under Rules of Evidence | This joint resolution adopts a privilege under the rules of evidence related to communications of victims. | Support | Rep. Snow / Sen. Weiler | 2nd Sub - Senate 2nd Reading Calendar |
HJR8 | Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution - Slavery and Involuntary Servitude Prohibition | This resolution proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to eliminate an exception to the prohibition against slavery and involuntary servitude. | Support | Rep. Hollins/Sen. Anderegg | Senate 3rd Reading Calendar |
HJR21 | Joint Resolution Reaffirming the Value of Women | This resolution reaffirms women's equal political, civil, and religious rights contained in the Utah Constitution and recommends the inclusion of similar language in the United States Constitution | Support | Rep. Kwan / Sen.Vickers | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
HR3 | House Resolution Supporting Humane Response to Refugee Crises | This House resolution urges a humane response to the humanitarian crises at the U.S.-Mexico border. | Support | Rep. Dailey-Provost | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SJR7 | Proposal to Amend Utah Constitution - Terminology Update | This joint resolution of the Legislature proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to modify gender-specific terminology (making the Utah Constitution gender neutral). | Support | Sen. Henderson | Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared |
SR1 | Senate Resolution Regarding the Separation of Families at the Border | This resolution urges the Congress of the United States and federal policymakers to preserve and reunify families. | Support | Sen. Davis | Senate Health and Human Services Committee returned to Rules |
SCR11 | Concurrent Resolution Designating Utah Girls in Tech Day | This resolution recognizes that women are significantly underrepresented in technology-related fields despite a shortage of qualified talent; encourages more young women to pursue technology-related careers; and designates March 20 as "Utah Girls in Tech Day." | Support | Sen. Millner | House/ to Senate |