2025 bills / S.B. 301
S.B. 301 Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation Protections (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill narrows Utah's anti-SLAPP law, which lets courts quickly dismiss lawsuits over speech on public issues, so it covers only defamation or slander claims tied to a constitutional right. It also allows witness subpoenas at those hearings, requires some dismissals to be without prejudice, limits some cost and fee awards, and keeps some trial proceedings going during appeals.
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Official description
- modifies the scope of the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (act) to apply only to causes of action for defamation or slander in relation to a claim involving exercise of a constitutional right
- permits a party to issue a subpoena for testimony at a hearing conducted pursuant to the act, with some limitations
- requires that a cause of action be dismissed without prejudice instead of with prejudice in some circumstances
- removes the ability to seek costs, attorney fees, and expenses in some circumstances
- modifies provisions addressing attorney fees and the precedential effects of a voluntary dismissal of a cause of action
- provides that trial proceedings on discovery and certain causes of action are not stayed while an appeal is pending
- modifies standards required to obtain a reward of costs, attorney fees, and expenses in some circumstances
- modifies language related to broadly construing the purpose of the act
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- An alert the day S.B. 301 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 301 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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