2025 bills / H.B. 320
H.B. 320 Municipal Ordinance Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would let a city or town impose a civil fine larger than the usual class B misdemeanor fine for repeat violations of local rules on occupancy, off-street parking, or operating rental dwellings or short-term rentals. The larger fine could apply only if the same person was fined for the same violation three or more times in the past 12 months, and it could not exceed the maximum set in the bill.
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Official description
- allows a municipality to impose a civil fine that exceeds the maximum class B misdemeanor fine under Section 76-3-301 if:
- the fine is imposed for violation of an ordinance that regulates occupancy, the provision of off-street parking, or the operation of a rental dwelling or short-term rental
- the municipality has previously imposed a fine on the individual for the same violation three or more times within the past 12 months
- the fine does not exceed the applicable maximum amount described in this bill
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 320 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 320 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
Every vote
- 9 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 noHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 2 noHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
- 71 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 2 yes, 4 no, 1 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: Senate vote, which failed · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how