Elections

The bill would require that voting equipment used to cast or count votes in Utah be on a state-approved list and have no wireless communication capability.

The bill would bar people from attaching objects or stickers to political signs in ways that cover or change the sign's message, and would let cities and counties remove noncompliant signs.

The bill would let election officials check whether registered voters are U.S. citizens, using federal and state records and naturalization papers.

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H.B. 361 reorganizes Utah's election laws and standardizes election notice requirements and candidate filing periods.

This bill would require municipalities to fill a tie in a vacancy involving three or more candidates by drawing lots, instead of repeated coin tosses.

S.B. 140 corrects election deadlines that were left out when the congressional candidate filing deadline was moved to March during a special session.

S.B. 153 would make voter registration records public by default, with exceptions for sensitive identifiers like Social Security and driver's license numbers, email addresses, birth dates, signatures, and ballot choices.

S.B. 165 would create a program that funds a backbone organization to coordinate existing state education, family, workforce, health, and housing programs in communities.

S.B. 194 would require conflict-of-interest plans for lieutenant governor elections and for county clerks facing conflicts, change weekend election deadlines, and let campaign funds be used for home security.

Municipal election candidates would have to file campaign finance reports every year while their campaign account still holds money, including after they leave office.

The bill lets newly elected school boards, such as those formed after a school district split, choose a one- or three-year initial term for their president and vice president.

For candidates running statewide or in multiple counties, the county clerk of the county where most of a petition's signatures were gathered would verify those signatures, instead of one central clerk handling them all.

This proposal would change how Utah awards its electoral votes in presidential elections.

H.B. 112 would add social media, including paid influencer posts and paid digital ads, to the rules requiring political advertising to say who paid for it.

This bill would require the same number of voter signatures for an indirect initiative, which goes to the Legislature, as for a direct initiative, which goes straight to the ballot.

H.B. 167 would post the names and signing dates of people who sign candidate petitions on the Lieutenant Governor's website for 90 days, starting five days after the signatures are certified.

This bill would let voters challenge local school board decisions through a referendum, unless the board passes the decision by a supermajority vote.

The bill would end paper signature gathering for initiatives, referenda, and candidate nominations in 2030, leaving electronic signing as the only method.

H.B. 443 would change how vacancies in the state Senate and House are filled between elections, replacing the current party delegate selection with a vote of the district's voters.

H.B. 446 would add two items to the conflict of interest disclosure that candidates, incumbents, and appointees file each year: unresolved tax liens of more than $500 that are at least two years old, and certain criminal convictions.

The bill would cap annual property tax revenue increases by taxing entities such as counties and school districts at 5% unless voters approve a larger increase.

H.B. 504 would require printed political advertising that includes visual content generated by artificial intelligence to say so.

H.B. 529 would make the Secretary of State an independently elected office again, with a four-year term, and move certain duties, including election oversight, from the Lieutenant Governor to that office.

This bill would let cities and other nonpartisan local governments choose whether to hold a primary election when two or three candidates file for an open seat.

This bill would require candidates in nonpartisan races to disclose any political party affiliation when they file to run.

The bill would allow a person who signed an initiative or referendum petition to correct, or cure, a problem with their signature, similar to how ballot signatures can already be cured.

This proposed constitutional amendment would create an elected Secretary of State to run elections, taking those duties from the Lieutenant Governor starting in 2029, with the first officer elected in 2028 to a two-year term and later terms lasting four years.

The bill would let municipalities keep sending newsletters or similar communications within 60 days of an election, provided all candidates receive equal coverage.

S.B. 299 would let candidates put their middle name or maiden name on the ballot, clarifying that this is allowed.

This joint resolution would change court rules so that jury selection in felony cases must be held in person, unless the parties agree otherwise.