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H.B. 356 County Governance Amendments (2025)

Became lawWritten by Rep. Jordan D. Teuscher · carried in the Senate by Sen. Michael K. McKell

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

This bill would require council members in certain Utah counties of the third through sixth class that use a council-manager government to be elected from voter districts rather than at large. It also sets up a process for those counties to create the districts and changes who sits on a study committee that looks at changing a county's form of government.

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Official description
  • defines terms
  • provides that in a county of the third through sixth class with a council-manager form of government, each council member must be elected by a voter district
  • establishes a process for a county of the third through sixth class with a council-manager form of government to create voter districts
  • modifies the composition of a study committee formed to study changing the form of county government
  • makes technical and conforming changes
Full text and history on le.utah.gov →

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