Kay J. Christofferson

• H.B. 481 Transportation Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves that the House refuse to concur in the Senate amendments and ask the Senate to recede from them, and comments on the governor's likely view.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. I move the house ref you refuse to concur and ask the Senate to, uh, receipt from their amendments. I wonder what the governor thinks downstairs when that all happens. That motion is in order.

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• H.B. 481 Transportation Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says she likes most of the bill and that some tweaks to the special license plate provisions are still being worked out.

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  Yeah, I like most of that. I think there's a, there's some tweaks on the, uh, uh, special license plates and, and we just had a discussion on a few tweaks that we'd like to make. So hopefully we can get that worked out.

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• H.B. 481 Transportation Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that the bill changes how special group license plates are created and paid for, moves fee setting to the DMV, restricts license plate frames that cover plate text, and allows proposals for standard issue plate changes to the EO.

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  Yeah. Uh, this deals with, uh, license plates. Uh, we made some changes to the way special group license plates are, uh, created and paid for. Made the process easier by, uh, making the payment upfront so that the people who were uh, collecting those didn't need to, uh, collect it themselves. Uh, we made it so that, uh, the fees are proposed by the DMV and not, uh, not in code. So we took it out of code, uh, then they can get the actual cost for those fees. Um, and then we, uh, made it so that the license plate frames are, uh, don't cover the license plate, uh, and, uh, make it so that it's hard to …

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Presents the bill as a transportation omnibus covering mobile business rules, a road user charge on commercial electric vehicles, UDOT real property and sales tax provisions, commuter rail bonding, towing rules, and Salt Lake City traffic calming changes, and offers to answer questions.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this bill has quite a bit in it, and I'll try to unpack it here a little bit, but, uh, it's a transportation omnibus bill that talks about, uh, first of all, it goes through allowing political subdivisions, uh, to, uh, to, uh, prohibit mobile businesses like food trucks or something like that during, uh, certain times of years, celebrations or something. They might move 'em or have 'em temporarily relocate them somewhere else, uh, during that period of time. Also, um, it also puts a user, uh, charge a road user charge on electric, uh, commercial trucks or vehicles that are over 6,000 pounds. So this isn't personal vehicles. This, these are commercial vehicles, …

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Supports the substitute, saying cities can prioritize roads separately from the UDOT process and that the towing change requires only an online presence.

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  My apologies. Thank You. Uh, yeah, there are a bunch of roads that, uh, the, the cities can pr, uh, prioritize. It's separate from the UDOT prioritization process. And, uh, so I think what the substitute is doing, uh, substitute is doing, is saying, um, it hasn't completely gone through the process of, uh, of accepting those, or the, the process of, uh, of making sure that those are the ones that the cities want and not just other people. So, uh, I, I am good with the sub. I think it helps, and it does clarify on, um, on the, uh, tow trucks that, uh, the towing industry just has to have an online pre presence, uh, somewhere so …

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says cities can prioritize roads separately from the UDOT process, supports the substitute, and says the towing requirement is an online presence for contact.

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  You. Uh, yeah, there are a bunch of roads that, uh, the, the cities can pr, uh, prioritize. It's separate from the UDOT prioritization process. And, uh, so I think what the substitute is doing, uh, substitute is doing, is saying, um, it hasn't completely gone through the process of, uh, of accepting those, or the, the process of, uh, of making sure that those are the ones that the cities want and not just other people. So, uh, I, I am good with the sub. I think it helps, and it does clarify on, um, on the, uh, tow trucks that, uh, the towing industry just has to have an online pre presence, uh, somewhere so that people can …

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• S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves to adopt amendment number two to the bill.

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  Thank you Madam Speaker Pro Tem. Um, I'd like to mo move that we adopt amendment number two.

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• S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the amendment moves two dates to a later date, which removes the fiscal impact.

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  Yeah. It, it just moves two dates to a later date so that it, uh, removes the fiscal impact.

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• S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that the bill changes UTA governance to a director and a seven-member part-time commission, adds planning and accountability duties, and directs 5% of new growth revenue to the Transit Transportation Investment Fund for transit needs.

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  Thank you. Um, so this deals with, uh, governance of, uh, UTA, uh, which is a large transportation, uh, infrastructure transportation district. And, uh, we've had for several years now, uh, uh, a body of, uh, three commissioners. And, uh, another body of, uh, I think it was nine, uh, trustee, uh, nine advisory counselors, uh, comprised of, uh, local representatives. And they didn't have a lot of authority, uh, in that advisory council. And the problem with the, uh, that we've been looking at with the commission is if there was a concern, nobody knew who to go to for answers whether to go to the, uh, director or one of the three commissioners. And as we got thinking …

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that the two-system reporting language was removed after the Highway Patrol chose to add fields to the existing system, and that tows only need an online presence.

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  Yeah, thank you. Uh, we did have some meetings. In fact, this language that's crossed out was introduced and it created two systems because the Highway patrol wanted to have more information. And then after, uh, a conference that we had, uh, the Highway Patrol decided that they could just add a couple of more fields in the current system and get the information that they needed. And it, so it required a lot less work from the tows. They were glad that we did that. And the only other change is that we just said that they needed to have an online presence so we could contact them.

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says struck language was removed after a conference with the Highway Patrol, which added fields to its current system, and that towing businesses need an online presence so they can be contacted.

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  Yeah, thank you. Uh, we did have some meetings. In fact, this language that's crossed out was introduced and it created two systems because the Highway patrol wanted to have more information. And then after, uh, a conference that we had, uh, the Highway Patrol decided that they could just add a couple of more fields in the current system and get the information that they needed. And it, so it required a lot less work from the tows. They were glad that we did that. And the only other change is that we just said that they needed to have an online presence so we could contact them.

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Gives summation saying the bill was split in half, that part of it ran as his bill in the Senate, and asks for support.

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  Yeah, I appreciate the comments on that. It is a big bill. We actually split this in half and I ran part of this as my bill that went over to Senate and this is the Senate's bill. So there, there's a lot to it, but, uh, I think we've been pretty careful and, and vetted that. Uh, uh, so I'd, uh, appreciate your support on that. Thank you.

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• S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Summarizes that the bill is large, was split in half with part run as his bill that went to the Senate, and that the language was carefully vetted, and asks for support.

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  Yeah, I appreciate the comments on that. It is a big bill. We actually split this in half and I ran part of this as my bill that went over to Senate and this is the Senate's bill. So there, there's a lot to it, but, uh, I think we've been pretty careful and, and vetted that. Uh, uh, so I'd, uh, appreciate your support on that. Thank you.

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• S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Gives closing remarks saying the bill will help meet future needs and keep UTA strong.

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  Uh, I just think this will help us to, uh, to answer some of the needs we have in the future and, and keep UTA strong. Thank you.

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• H.B. 508 State Facilities Modifications · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Discusses his construction experience with performance and payment bonds, the risks of removing them, and says he will support trying the change.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, I had a chance to talk this sponsor of the bill be before this, uh, about some of my concerns I've been in, in the business for a long time in construction and where we had to pay for performance and payment bonds and they cost about one or 2% of the project. Uh, so the costs are, you know, they can be expensive. What they do is assure that if a contractor fails to perform, then they can, the owner can, uh, contract with someone else and the performance bond will cover the difference between the cost of the first contractor and the new one. And then also if they have some quality issues, …

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