2025 bills / S.B. 114
S.B. 114 Veteran Access to State Parks (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill would create a program, depending on available funding, offering Utah veterans who are state residents a discounted annual pass to state parks. The Division of State Parks would have to price the pass at least 25% below the regular annual day-use pass, and the program would end automatically after three years.
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Official description
- creates a program, as funding allows, that offers a discounted annual pass to state parks to qualified veterans who are residents of the state
- requires the Division of State Parks to offer the discounted veteran pass at a reduction of at least 25% of the price of a state parks annual day-use pass
- provides for the automatic repeal of the discounted annual pass program after three years
- grants rulemaking authority to establish the program
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 114 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 114 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
- 5 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 24, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 24, 2025Who voted how
- 15 yes, 14 noFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how
- 13 yes, 15 no, 1 absentSenate vote, which failed · Feb 5, 2025Who voted how
- 17 yes, 12 noFinal Senate vote · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 5 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 24, 2025 Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 12, 2025 House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee▶ Watch
- Apr 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jun 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Jun 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch