Brady Brammer

• H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Presents H.B. 491, which creates a review process for selecting one highway designation a year instead of many separate naming bills.

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  Thank you. So every year we have lots and lots of requests to name highways after people. And what this does is this creates a highway designation, bipartisan review committee, uh, for special naming committees, uh, highway name bill. And then, so for example, this year there's been 12 highway name bills. This creates a review process for review and selecting, uh, one name and road a year. It does not prohibit a legislator from still running a name bill, but it does create the process for that. Um, and, but it, what we're trying to do is have better legislative efforts, udot and high, uh, for, um, well, in any event, the person who wrote this does not know …

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• H.B. 129 Education Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that H.B. 129 makes the State Board of Education's rulemaking standard in Title 53E match the more limited standard in Title 60, Chapter 3G, to remove an inconsistency in the code.

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  Thank you. So there's some ambiguity in our code between two sections in Title 60 3G. The State School Board has, uh, has a limitation on rulemaking authority. And then in Title 53 E it has, uh, a looser and less definitive standard on that. And what this does is clarify so that the two standards match. And, uh, and that's it. It just creates that consistency between the, the two sections of code with regards to the rulemaking ability of the Utah State Board of Education. And I'm open to any questions.

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• H.B. 129 Education Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Answers that the aligned standard is the more specific one in Title 60, Chapter 3G, and that the change avoids ambiguity with a more specific provision elsewhere in the code.

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  which standard did you pick? Yeah, so this goes to the more specific of the two standards. So it would be the title, uh, 60 3G standard, which under the current framework, if you were looking at it judicially, you would the, the more specific would typically govern, but it also creates ambiguity if you're looking into the education code. But there's a more specific one somewhere else that you're, you're not thinking about. And so we wanted to align those.

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• H.B. 111 Wildlife Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Introduces H.B. 539 and describes some of its modifications in the domestic violence area.

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  Thank you very much. This one deals with some of the modifications in the domestic violence space. So here's a few of the things that it does.

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• H.B. 539 Public Safety Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that H.B. 539 creates a rebuttable presumption for pretrial detention of repeat domestic violence offenders, adds offenses to the domestic violence list, clarifies sibling, jail release, and venue provisions, expands who may seek a workplace protective order, and defines district as judicial district.

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  So here's a few of the things that it does. First, it, it creates a rebuttable presumption, uh, pretrial detention for repeat domestic violence offenders. Additionally, it adds a pri, it adds privacy offenses and vulnerable adult abuse to a list of domestic, domestic violence offenses. Additionally, it clarifies that an adult sibling committed committing in a domestic violence offense against a minor sibling can be domestic violence. Additionally, it it clarifies several of the issues around, um, around jail release agreements. It the attorney general's office also asked for some clarification on venue for crimes that span multiple jurisdictions. And so it performs that it also expands who may seek a workplace protective order to include a volunteer for …

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• S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that the changes broaden the study to include other universities besides UVU and allow it to examine joint projects to develop a law school, if feasible.

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  Yeah. The changes were based on the feedback that I received on the floor here. It opened it up so that the study includes other universities in addition to UVU and allows for, uh, the study to look at whether it there can be, uh, joint, uh, projects to develop a, a law school. And if that's feasible.

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• H.B. 454 Public Assistance Fraud Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Presents H.B. 454, which amends criminal provisions on obtaining and using public assistance by fraud, creates an offense for assisting another person in including fraudulent information, adds it to the predicate offenses for a pattern of unlawful activity, and sets a fine schedule based on the value of assistance.

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  Yeah. Thank you. So what this does is it amends certain criminal provisions related to obtaining and using, uh, public assistance. And it, so if somebody is assisting another person and tries to get them to include fraudulent information in order to obtain public assistance, uh, this prohibits that and creates the offense, uh, and adds it to a list of predicate offenses for a pattern of un of unlawful activity. It has a, a fine schedule, uh, depending on the value of the public assistance. And, uh, with that I move HB 4 54 pass under suspension of the rules.

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• H.B. 396 Public Project Subcontractor Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Presents H.B. 396, which requires second-tier subcontractors on public projects to provide employee lists, license numbers, hours, and proof of a zero-exposure insurance policy, and lets Doppel verify licensing.

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  Uh, thank you. So what this deals with is on there are certain, uh, subcontractor, well there're second tier subcontractors on public projects that oftentimes they're not, um, paying into the workers' compensation or unemployment insurance. And so what this does is on public contracts and only public contracts, it requires that they provide to the general contractor a list of their W2 employees, the list, the names and license numbers of second tier contract subcontractors, the, uh, the hours and the written notice of a zero estimated exposure policy. That's their insurance policy. And then, um, and then upon request by Doppel, uh, they can verify the licensing, uh, status of those. Um, it also requires the name, uh, …

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• H.B. 396 Public Project Subcontractor Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the decision on the social security number request is up to the body and that Doppel's request could be limited to the last four digits.

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  I'll leave, I'll leave it to the will of the body on, on it. This is Doppel requesting information, but if the body doesn't want to have, uh, Doppler request Social security or the last four digits only of the Social security, that's fine.

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• H.B. 396 Public Project Subcontractor Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Summarizes the bill's intent to increase compliance so that workers on public projects are properly licensed and insured.

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  Yeah. Uh, so like I said, uh, well we've, we've gone through the bill. Essentially this is just requesting information so that, uh, employees are employees and workers on public projects are properly licensed and insured. That's the intent to increase that compliance. And with that, I will, uh, uh, unless there's any other discussion, I'm seeing no discussion on the bill, so that I'll take that as a summation. I'm looking for a motion.

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Presents the bill as prohibiting compelled speech and compelled activities in higher education that violate student conscience, notes it does not restrict professors' lectures on difficult topics, and says concerns from universities and agencies were addressed in the substitute.

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  for conscience in medical contexts, in law enforcement context in employment contexts. Uh, what this does is, uh, the bill prohibits, uh, compelled speech in higher education settings, and then it prevents compulsion into activities that violate a student's conscience. What the bill does not prohibit is professors from lecturing on and on difficult, uh, topics. And so we've been working with the various universities and agencies in the executive branch, and their major concerns have been answered in the con in the current substitution. And so what we're trying to do is just get to the idea that the rights of conscience for students can be protected and accommodations can be made whenever possible. And with that, I'm open …

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says he did not hear a question, only a concern, and asks Sen. Riebe to repeat the question.

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  The question. I didn't hear a question in that. I heard a concern, But Yeah. Let me, let me go ahead. Would you repeat that question? Senator Riebe?

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the First Amendment protects rights of conscience and that those rights are not set aside just because multiple people claim them.

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  Yeah. There, there's a reason why the First Amendment is the First Amendment. We accommodate rights of conscience and belief. And so, uh, you know, we do not steamroll the rights of conscience in America just because multiple people have a claim to a right of conscience.

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says students do not leave their right of conscience at the classroom door when they enroll in higher education.

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  Uh, even when people sign up to take classes in higher ed, they do not leave their right to conscience at the door. Back to you, Senator Riebe.

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• H.B. 204 Higher Education Student Belief Accommodation · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves to adopt Amendment Four to the bill.

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  And I to the bill, I was speaking to the bill with the amendment, but we have not yet adopted Amendment four. And so at this point I would move that we adopt amendment four.

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