2025 bills / H.B. 158
H.B. 158 State Sovereignty Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill would declare that international organizations have no power or legal authority in Utah. It would bar the state and local governments from enforcing any international rule, tax, policy, or mandate that claims the force of law, and bar the governor or local leaders from declaring an emergency solely because an international organization declared one.
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Official description
- defines terms
- declares that an international organization does not have any power, jurisdiction, or legal authority in this state
- provides that, if an international organization issues a rule, resolution, tax, policy, or mandate that purports to have the force and effect of law, then the state, or a political subdivision of the state, may not implement or enforce the rule, resolution, tax, policy, or mandate
- prohibits the governor or the chief executive officer of a political subdivision from declaring a state of emergency exclusively in response to an international organization's proclamation declaring a state of emergency
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 13 yes, 0 noHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 3 noHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 30, 2025Who voted how
- 59 yes, 13 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 10, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 2 no, 1 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how