James A. Dunnigan

• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains that the Senate removed a growth development plan requirement for certain second class counties, adds Utah County and council-manager counties to the bill's provisions, and lets those counties change who they delegate accounting services to.

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  Yes. Uh, Senate did a couple things. Uh, one thing is there was a, a portion in the bill that required second class counties bordering first class counties, which have been in Summit Illa to do a growth development plan that's been taken out. So that's no longer required since it passed the house. Utah County said they want in, uh, to the p provision for second class counties. So their city's contacted me and their county contacted me. So they're included in this inner city island, uh, annexation and then also for counties with a council manager form of government, which are Twila Summit and Wasatch. It allows them the ability to change who they delegate accounting services to. …

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says substitute four was never adopted and the notice language has not changed.

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  We never adopted sub four. The language about notices and all that. There's no, that's still in there that was not changed. Sub four was never adopted.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says affected residents will receive mailed notice, the county must post notice, and officials will be notified before annexation occurs.

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  Mr. Speaker. Everybody will receive it's impacted, will receive a notice to their mail. The, the county has to post it and they can notify the, the officials. So they'll they'll have notice before it happens and they can respond to it.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says residents can talk to county officials, who may choose not to annex an island after notice is given.

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  Absolutely. They can talk to their county officials. And the county officials have the option to not incorporate any particular island if, you know, people don't wanna be incorporated After the notice has been given.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says residents can contact county leaders at any time and ask to opt out of annexation.

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  Well they could, Mr Speaker, they can reach out if they know that they're an inner city in I City Island, they can reach out to their county leaders at any time. And Nassau County leaders that tell 'em they don't wanna opt in, that they wanna opt out.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says county commissioners make the decision, residents can speak with them, and commissioners can opt islands out.

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  It'll be up to the, the county commissioners. They, they'll just like any notice, the uh, residents can go speak with their commissioners. The commissioners will make the decision, but the citizens will be notified of the proposed annexation. And again, if there's one or two or three islands that people don't want to, they tell the commissioners, commissioners have the ability to opt out or the Yeah. Of the opt those islands out.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Confirms that islands can be opted out after notice and notes that a map of the islands is available.

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  Yes. Or they can. Okay. Thank You. I mean, we have a map. They, the islands are identified right now and we have a map that's available for anybody that's interested.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  In closing, says the sponsor worked with counties and cities on notice of proposed annexations and encourages support.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the questions. So we have worked very carefully with the counties, with the cities to try to address uh, the concerns we put in the notice of, uh, proposed annexations so the public will be aware and I encourage your support.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves to suspend the rules so the bill can be considered read for first, second, and third time after the title changed.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. So since the bill left the house, the title of the bill has changed. So just to be safe, I move the under suspension of the rules. We suspend the constitutional three readings requirement and consider the bill read for first, second, and third time.

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• H.B. 457 County Governance Modifications · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the change only affects the title and that the title is considered read three times out of caution.

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  If we just change the title and out of a abundance of safety, we're gonna consider the title's been read three times.

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• H.B. 498 Utah App Store Accountability Act Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Dunnigan said the Senate amendments added an immediate effective date for the part that removes the Consumer Protection Division as a regulator.

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  Yes. We added, uh, an immediate effective date for the part that removes the Consumer Protection Division as a regulator.

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• S.B. 201 Shelter Animal Euthanasia Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Speaks against the substitute motion, saying larger counties can easily do this.

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  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I speak against the substitute motion to amend, uh, the many people that I've talked to about this. I, I, I think these larger counties can easily do this. They're by far, they're the ones that are taking the most animals and numerous, whether it's the shelters or the animal control providers, uh, run by the government, they, they say that this makes sense, it can do it. So I'm speaking against the substitute motion to amend.

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• S.B. 78 Property Tax Relief Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Said seniors at his town halls liked not paying property taxes but disliked having to pay the tax when the property is transferred, and that they would prefer the current circuit breaker program.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. So I, I had the opportunity last couple weeks to discuss this at my town halls, which we had a lot of seniors attend. And they really liked the idea of not having to pay property taxes. They get older based on their income. I said, there's only one thing when the property's transferred, transferred, you have to pay the property tax. They didn't like that part at all. And they said, well, we like the part where we don't have to pay it, but we don't have to want to pay it later either. I said, that's not the proposal. And so they said, well, then we'd rather have the current circuit breaker program. So …

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• H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Asks whether the House amendment is substantially the same as the bill that failed in House committee.

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  Is the substitute or the amendment that the house put into your bill to sub, is it substantially the same as what failed in the house committee?

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• H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Raises concern that the bill adds about $60 million to current curriculum spending without guaranteed savings if local districts do not adopt it.

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  Speaker, Mr. Speaker? Mr. Speaker, I'd like to recall my, my time. Thank you. I think the sponsor answered my question. Um, my concern with this is we're already spending a couple hundred million dollars, whatever it is on curriculum, this is another 60 million and if the LEAs don't adopt this, then we may be spending what we're currently spending plus the additional amount and not really having any, any savings. That's my concern. Thank you Mr. Speaker.

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