2025 bills / H.B. 165
H.B. 165 Process for Submitting Nonbinding Opinion Question (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill creates a process for the Utah Legislature to place a nonbinding opinion question on the ballot so voters can express their views on an issue. It sets out duties for the lieutenant governor and county clerks, and rules for the ballot form, voter information pamphlet, public notice, voting, and counting results.
Plain-English summary written by AI from the official description. Check the official text below.
Official description
- defines terms
- establishes a procedure for the Legislature to submit a nonbinding opinion question to the voters of Utah
- describes the duties of the lieutenant governor and county clerks in submitting the nonbinding opinion question to voters
- establishes procedures for the ballot form, voter information pamphlet, public notice, manner of voting, and canvass of returns in relation to the nonbinding opinion question
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Follow H.B. 165
Members ($5 a month) get:
- An alert the day H.B. 165 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 165 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Or start free: A weekly email when H.B. 165 moves: hearings, votes, rewrites, signed or vetoed.
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 3 no, 3 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 43 no, 7 absentHouse vote, which failed · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how