Legislators / Wayne A. Harper
Wayne A. Harper
Republican · Senate District 16 · President Pro Tempore
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- Email: wharper@le.utah.gov
- Office: 2094 SURREY CIR, Taylorsville, UT, 84129
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Wayne A. Harper serves on:
- Criminal Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
- Transportation and Infrastructure Appropriations Subcommittee
- Political Subdivisions Interim Committee
- Retirement and Independent Entities Interim Committee
- Transportation Interim Committee
- Senate Retirement and Independent Entities Confirmation Committee
- Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Confirmation Committee
- Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee
- Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee
What they've said
317 remarks on 73 billsS.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Moves to concur in the House changes to S.B. 242, describing changes on towing and other code provisions and noting the House removed some funding provisions, and asks for passage tonight.
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Thank you and move to Concur. Motion to Concur. Talk About about some of the changes. There was, uh, some, uh, changes dealing with, uh, towing and a couple other provisions of the code. The house, uh, stripped out a couple funding things that we had in there, but, uh, we need to get it passed tonight.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Explains that the House made one small change, to the transition of administrative control from master development to the normal HOA board, and moves to concur.
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There was just one little change in there as to the transition on administrative control. When you go from master development to the normal board on an HOA. So the motion is to concur.
H.B. 319 Electronic Records Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Presents H.B. 319 on electronic records, covering digital identification of records, verification processes, state archives review, and county approvals before implementation.
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Thank you. Uh, there's more and more, uh, items that are being, uh, notarized and processed electronically. The counties are receiving re uh, requests to go and record things, uh, um, electronically in the county recorder's office and other places. This, uh, bill goes through and authorizes, uh, digital identification of records. Establish a process for going through and verifying that those are correct. Um, requires the state archives to go through and, uh, review the different processes before they're implemented in the counties to make sure that they're uniform, they can be recorded and the records, uh, permanently maintained. And then it is technology neutral and make sure that the counties understand the processes, get approvals before they implement …
H.B. 319 Electronic Records Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Moves that second substitute H.B. 319 pass under suspension of the rules.
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Thank you. I'd move under suspension of the rules that second substitute house bill three 19 pass.
S.B. 268 Religious Curriculum in Schools · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Explains a one-word change in the concurrent resolution, saying it was supposed to read Legislature instead of Senate.
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To concur. There was a one word change. It was supposed to say Legislature and it said Senate
S.B. 321 Municipal Election Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Moves that the Senate refuse to recede from its amendments.
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I move. That Senate refused to recede. Motion To refuse to recede Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye.
H.B. 354 Rescue Tracking Equipment Offense Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Describes concerns about data stored in vehicles when they are sold or rented and how that data is removed, and says the sponsor worked with industry groups on privacy.
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Vehicles collect a lot of data and that, uh, data is kept within the, uh, the vehicle. There's been some concern about, uh, when you sell a car or if you rent a car. And how do you get rid of all that, uh, data that's been collected upon you? So the good representative went through and worked with GM Tech and Lexus Nexus Alliance for Automobile Innovation, privacy
H.B. 357 Amendments to Motor Vehicle Data Privacy · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Presents the bill as a starting point on the large amount of data collected by vehicles and opens it to questions.
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and Lexus Nexus Alliance for Automobile Innovation, privacy for Cars to Division of Consumer Protection, DMV and the New and Used Car Association and others to go through and clarify that, uh, there's a way, uh, that clarifies that Big ma that the auto manufacturers in Utah were already on operating under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act to go through and amend that to go through and ensure that all car manufacturers adhere to the di consumer. Data privacy protections for vehicles sold in Utah, uh, creates categories of personal information purposes for which, and then of what it does, it says, uh, specifically by 2030 in vehicle access to privacy controls will be enabled so that people will be …
H.B. 357 Amendments to Motor Vehicle Data Privacy · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Responds to the opposition by saying the bill sets a 2030 model year timeline, that safety and functionality are not affected, and moves to pass the first substitute.
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Thank you. I, I think the good senator went through and made my point here. There is hundreds if not thousands of data points that are, uh, collected in a vehicle. Some are temporary, some are, um, collected for safety or functionality. That's why in conjunction with the manufacturers and other stakeholders, this, uh, talks about the model year 2030 going forward. So there's plenty of time to create those interfaces. They, uh, expressed interest in doing that. It's a partnership. The question is, is who owns your personal data? This goes through and deals with that. The two issues that were also brought up, the safety and functionality are not affected by this bill. It's your rather personal data …
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Explains that the bill changes a reporting system to increase transparency for agencies handling tax increment, describes the House amendments that added reporting items and clarified new growth and local authority tax increment reports, and moves to concur.
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Uh, this is the bill that goes through and changes the MCAT into the stats system to go to increase transparency in reporting on, uh, agencies that go through and deal with tax increment. Uh, the house added a couple reporting items, items added one item on transparency, clarified new growth, um, and then uh, did something on, uh, or, uh, clarified the issue. Uh, some of the tax increment reports for local authorities. And that's what the bill does. And with that I move to Concur.
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Explains that the fiscal note was changed, that the appropriation is correct, and that the bill deals with funding for troopers.
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uh, there was a, it was the fiscal note that was changed. So the appropriation is correct and that Bill deals with the funding. Funding Troopers.
H.B. 323 Solar Panel Disposal Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks about the fiscal impact on DEQ and what per-panel charge consumers would face under the bill.
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Okay. So you've got the impact in here on the fiscal loan and the bill of what it does to DEQ and under entities. What is contemplated to be the charge per panel? Or what is it gonna be to the consumer who's made that choice for, uh, quality, lifestyle and, and environmental benefits? Senator Sandall?
H.B. 323 Solar Panel Disposal Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says the fee calculations are not clear, that the data is not before the body, and that costs already experienced by implementers and users are not recognized.
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Yeah. So we're not gonna set the fee we're gonna have, 'cause basically what's what's contemplated in here is there's gotta be something as back of how you get 25,001 time, 311,000 another and, and what might be going on, you know, 101,000 ongoing. So you don't, you're not aware of what those calculation back ca back cal back calculations are? Correct? I, I, I'm not aware of what those calculations are. Okay. I just, I have concerns with this. Not, not having all the data before us and also, uh, not recognizing some of the, uh, costs that, uh, the implementers and users of this have already experienced.
H.B. 323 Solar Panel Disposal Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Sen. Harper says he now understands the costs, affected parties and intended use of the funds, and notes that this would be a first-in-the-nation step that warrants questions.
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I'm sorry, Senator Harper. Yeah, I Appreciate the, uh, sponsor and both sponsors and DEQ grabbing me after I started asking a bunch of questions. I understand now what the cost of this would be, the parties impacted and what it would be used for. This could be construed as a, you know, nose in the camel's tent because it's, we're the face first state to do this. But if we ask questions, we'll get additional information. So that, those are my comments.
H.B. 507 State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Moves to delete the title and body of the first substitute for H.B. 408 and replace it with third substitute H.B. 408.
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Thank you Mr. President. Move to delete and title embody first substitute Senate bill or house bill 4 0 8 and replace it with third substitute house bill 4 0 8.
H.B. 416 First Responder Health Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Speaks in support of the bill, saying it recognizes firefighters and urging other senators to support it.
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Thank you. I, uh, rise in support of this bill. It's a really, an important bill. I think it, uh, recognizes the great efforts of our wonderful firefighters and, uh, and I urge everybody's support and I appreciate the sponsors have worked so hard to make this happen.
H.B. 575 Fuel Tax and Supply Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Moved to pass the first substitute of H.B. 575 out favorably.
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I move that we pass out favorably. First substitute house bill 5 75. Thank you.
H.B. 221 Coercion Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Moves to replace H.B. 57 with second substitute H.B. 57, saying it addresses the earlier substitute and the fiscal note.
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Thank you. I move to delete and title and Body House bill 57 for substitute and replace it with second substitute house bill 57. This takes care of the speak for the substitute. Yeah. Takes care of the fiscal, uh, note on it.
H.B. 221 Coercion Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Describes H.B. 57 as a bill of technical changes at the Tax Commission's request, including vehicle definitions, sales tax corrections, and plate and cross-reference updates.
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Yeah, this bill makes a number of technical changes including standardization of vehicle, white definitions, exempting, street legal, all terrain vehicles from, uh, various provi provisions, uh, correcting sales tax error marks, and a bunch of other stuff that was studied during the interim. And it is, uh, this bill is at the request of the tax commission, uh, repays some antiquated plates and makes a whole bunch of technical changes and correctional things that were cross references that were, that were incorrect in code.
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Presents H.B. 372, which addresses guardian ad litem duties, child voice in court proceedings, transparency, and oversight committee responsibilities.
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Thank you. This bill addresses the, uh, guardian ad litems consideration of a minor's best interest, uh, changes and strengthens the child's voice in the court process, uh, by requiring explanation of the court and the child. The details of the already required independent investigation, uh, goes through and enhances transparency, uh, goes through and clarifies and, uh, strengthen the guardian ad litem oversight committee's duties. Uh, uh, clarify some of the duties of the director of the guardian of ad litem go through and, and requires within the bill, uh, recommendations that the uh, point of guardian ad litem has personally received. Uh, not just, uh, hearsay or third, uh, hand reports, um, goes through and disclose the details …
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · Senate floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Moves that the fifth substitute House bill be passed under suspension of the rules. · speaker not certain
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Thank you. I'd move that fifth substitute house bill 3 75 under suspension of the rules pass.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Sen. Harper presents SB 242 and an amendment addressing towing issues, and says mayor and towing representatives will speak.
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Yes. Great. I appreciate the, uh, committee's, uh, patience and indulgence, and especially bringing this back after lengthy discussions. There's a lot of good important things in this bill. Uh, there were two issues that were, um, presented as not quite being in, in, uh, agreement. Uh, what I've done is I have Amendment one under my name that goes through and addresses the, uh, towing issues. Uh, and that goes I one through seven or items one through six. Um, item seven is, uh, one of our good, uh, Salt Lake City residents brought that to me, is it, uh, needed to be fixed. So we made that amendment per his request, I think was a good catch. So …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explains UTA requested the change so buses that run ahead of schedule can pull over for riders.
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Yeah, the, the intent was is that, uh, UTA had asked for the change because sometimes they get ahead of schedule on the routes, and so if they do that, they wanna pull over so they don't miss people who are supposed to be there on the routes. If we need to make a technical clarification of that, we can, but that was the intent, so that if they're ahead of schedule, they can actually stop and not miss somebody further along the
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explains House Amendment 2 concerns funding for Bluffdale, Midvale, and Taylorsville road projects that need to proceed.
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And then if you jump down to lines 3, 4, 3 0 to 3 4, 3, 3, it's specifically rep, uh, referencing the Bluffdale project, the Midvale project and the Taylorsville project. Those were, uh, if you look and the assistant goes out of the, uh, I've got it here. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Yeah, you take a look at those. Um, there's a, there's funding that was given before to go through and address certain things. Um, taking that out. What, what we did here is there's some expend money within that grant and loan program. Uh, the, in order to, the biggest one on there is the, uh, the, the Bluffdale railroad crossing, which is on 146 South. That's …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Sums up that the bill repeals SB 195 provisions, that mitigation does not mean removal, and that it funds active transportation and trails.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. And, uh, I just wanted to clarify in amendment two, I don't know the genesis of that, but those projects do need to happen and may be a little bit, I am uncomfortable having them removed at this point, but we need to get those back in at some sort of or fashion. Now with that being said, um, as has been asked by the community that's represented online and here, they wanted senate bill 1 95 provisions repealed. This bill does that. This is bill is not intended for speed. It is intended to bring all stakeholders to the par, to the table to go through and deal with safety of all parties. The …
H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Sen. Harper said a VIN makes it easier to find the owner, while without one officers must trace a serial number.
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I've got like four mics on over there. I'm just not sure which one is, Oh, there we go. Got it, got it. Now. Yeah, if, if it has a VIN on it, it's much easier to go through and, uh, find the owner in that. If not, you have to go through and take a look at a serial number on a block or something like that to try to track it out.
H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Sen. Harper said impound, administrative, towing and storage fees are set by the Tax Commission, citing UDOT maximums of about $205 for towing plus fees, totaling roughly $300.
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Yeah. And just to clarify, you know, in addition, what, uh, Ms. Brooks went and stated there, there are impound fees, there's an administrative fee, there's a, uh, tow fee, there's a bunch of fees. Those are all set by MVED in the tax commission. And, uh, that's part of the fee schedule that we approve each year. I haven't seen any changes to that, and I don't remember what they are, but there's a, uh, there is a daily rate, and if you, and the, the fee for calling out, uh, you know, somebody, if the police call is a higher fee than what an individual, if they want to go through and call out and get a tow …
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presents SB 206 as a bill that renames the Statewide Tax Administration Technology Solutions Program, consolidates redevelopment agency reporting into it, and aims to increase transparency and oversight of tax increment data.
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Thank you. This is kind of a fun bill. It started out simple, just, uh, changing the name of the multi-county, uh, appraisal trust. So we got further into it. We decided there were some things that could be consolidated, including a handful of House and Senate bills into, into this bill here. Um, and by doing that, we, uh, brought in a whole bunch of other stakeholders. So we're, we're dealing with, uh, with a lot of good in this bill. Let me, lemme clarify what's going on here. We're renaming mcat, the Statewide Tax Administration Technology Solutions Program. We're moving some of the, uh, redevelopment agency reporting from the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity into this new, uh, …
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Confirms the amendment is a cleanup to the third substitute and that he is open to its adoption.
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It does. Um, so there is a sub, or excuse me, an amendment online and, and I'm assuming you'll want us to adopt that at Some point? Well, that's, that's the amendment to, to sub three, correct? Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Explains that the amendment adjusts language so special taxing entities can operate and administer the bill.
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As we are dealing with, uh, with the, uh, taxing entities, we realized we needed to tweak some language in that to make sure that it was operable and administrable by those special taxing entities might, et cetera. So that's what it does. It's a clear cleanup after the third sub was adopted. Okay.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Defers the question about factoring to a representative from the Utah Association of Counties.
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Yeah, I I can, it, it's, can I have brandy come up? I haven't had to define that term in several, more like six or eight years. 'cause I, I don't want to mislead you on all the different nuances of factoring. I was hoping she'd come up, that's why I asked that tough question.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Responds that the bill aggregates reporting that was previously done in multiple places into a single location.
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No, this, this aggregates reporting that used to be done to multiple places into a single location. So it's uniform and retrievable.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Thanks the committee and stakeholders for their work on the bill.
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I appreciate that motion and, uh, I appreciate all the parties have worked with me for a little while to get this bill done. Right.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presented the bill as a cleanup and clarification of housing and transit reinvestment zone law, defining extraterritorial affordable housing and the base year, capping triggers at five, allowing linear zones, revising boundary adjustments and moving regulatory functions away from GOEO.
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Thank you. Appreciate, uh, being placed on the agenda. There's been a lot of discussion over the last, uh, couple years since we've created, uh, HG Zs and Viz and hops and, and TR Zs and whatever alphabet soup we wanted to do with, with those. This bill is, is, uh, it is a clarification bill with a couple different additions to that. Um, there's been a, uh, question, what is the definition of extraterritorial affordable housing? We've included that. We defined the base year for the, uh, there's been some question questions to what is the base year on these things? Is it any year that it's triggered or is it the year that it is adopted? So we've …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the base year will be the first year increment is triggered, which is meant to rein in rather than expand the program.
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Yeah, that's a great question. The, in the, that's one of the problems that I highlighted before is because we didn't know exactly what the base year was and people were calling that the year that is, um, you know, anytime before you trigger it could be now, it could be five years down the road. And if you take a look at this, it means the first year the property tax increment is triggered, it's intended to reign that in, not expand it.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Began explaining how some large project areas trigger increment and asked for the question to be repeated.
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Okay. Um, there's a number of project areas that are, they trigger it in one year, and it's one and done in some of these larger ones, like we'll take South Salt Lake, they go through and say, well, it's going to the whole area. The whole a hundred plus acres is not ready for development, but we know at some point it will, therefore we are going to go through and, and just, um, make sure that, I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said some cities interpret triggering as open-ended and the bill caps it at five so development can start when ready.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, the three, the five. So yes, some of these are one South Salt Lake is, has interpreted theirs. They can be open-ended, they can have 15 or 20. Uh, most of the people are saying that, uh, yeah, three's kind of normal for the other, for project areas, but when we get into these HGS and that, we wanted to make sure that as development is ready, it can, we can have a starting point, which is the trigger date, but we wanted to cap that at five rather than open-ended, as some people say that it is now. And the three was in there, and that was put in after we had, um, one or …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the bill prohibits overlapping project areas, explained the 'but for' standard, and noted the approval committee is mostly elected officials.
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No, and, and I think that that's a valid concern. And I think that's why you'll see in the bill here, it requires that right now you can overlap an HT RZ with a redevelopment project area or something else. This bill prevents that you can not overlap anymore and, and potentially double take or extend the, the timeframe of that. Um, the basis of tax increment, which has been since I think, established in I think 1974 is when it first came in. The state of Utah is a condition that's called, but for, but for this tax increment, the development would not be built or the improvements would not be made. And one thing that we've made been …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Acknowledged the three-to-five change could be seen as an expansion but said most of the bill clarifies operations and approvals.
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Yeah. And, and, and I think that's a valid position to take a look at. The intent is to go through and clarify. There are a couple things in here that like the three to five that could, can be seen as an expansion, but the majority of this is just clarifying the operation and the approval process.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said triggering depends on when development is ready, within a 25-year collection period inside a 45-year window.
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It's, it's just when the development is ready. Now remember, you can only trigger it for a 25 year period for 25 years within a 45 year period. So maybe you wanna wait 10 years before you start and trigger. It's more of when the city and the developer are ready for that.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Noted project areas must be sponsored by a municipality or county.
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To make the development. And just remember, none of these project areas are started unless they're presented and sponsored by a, a municipality or county.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the only change for the convention center zone is clarifying its base year.
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No, the only thing that we're, we tried to do that was clarify what their base year was. The rest of that should be new language or move from one section over. There was nothing since that's already triggered and in place we did not want to go through and change the policy there.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said a cap provides finality and described companion bill S.B. 228 that closes expired project areas and returns funds to taxing entities.
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Um, each HDRZ is different and as it's brought by the, the sponsoring, uh, political subdivision, um, there, you know, there are some that are, don't have a cap on them, we feel like there should be a cap so that we have finality, I think going through and, and talking about, you know, how long some of these, uh, taxing entities have been receiving increment. That's the purpose of my Senate bill 2 28 is to go through and, uh, it's called a dormancy period, but it's really, once you have your plot project area plan and budget have met their goals or their timeframes, they close within six, within six months, and they're, all the extra funds are, …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said higher density near transit makes sense and the extraterritorial option lets increment fund deed-restricted owner-occupied homes elsewhere.
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Okay. We have as, as as state and taxpayers put a lot of investment into mass transit, it makes sense to have higher density within a tight geographic area. One of my favorite things of this bill is the fact that, that if you can't reach that density, or if you want to do something even better, you go through and take some of that increment and shift it outside of the area for owner occupied housing deed restricted, owner occupied. And that's, that's one of the big things I like about this. When you're talking about the extraterritoriality, it's going like and saying, okay, within the city it might be zoned for four units per acre. This will allow …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said a city would have to rezone the land before using the money.
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That, that, uh, if the, if a, uh, city so chooses to do that extra toter extraterritoriality program, they would have to rezone it for that before they could use the money
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Explained that boundary adjustments would go through the county auditor and GOEO review before the HTRZ committee acts.
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Yeah. In initially it was determined that if there was a boundary adjustment being needed, then the city or the developer would go to GOO and they would approve it. Um, after looking at that, talking to some stakeholders, I, it was deemed that that was not the way to do it. So the municipality and the develop would have to go through and say, Hey, we have a boundary problem here. They would take that to the county, um, auditor who reviews all this type of stuff. They would go through and say, yeah, there needs to be boundary adjustment. We need to go through and, and do this type of stuff. They would make that recommendation and then …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said yes, and that adjustments are meant for minor corrections.
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Yeah, or yeah, if they, if they favorably say what everybody's brought up, then yeah, they'd move to adjust that boundary. Yeah. Okay. What, and it's generally supposed to be just a little bit to make sure all the parcels in or something that was not seen when the application was made to make, to do minor corrections,
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Gave the example of a parcel sliver wrongly left in or out of a zone.
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Principally to be a, uh, a parcel of lamb that where it was, when the boundaries were adjusted was deemed that all that boundary, all that parcel was inside the HTRZ or CCRZ and, um, it wasn't, so you'd go back through to go through and bring in that little sliver that was left out that would be brought in. Or conversely you could say, Nope, that, that, that parcel should not have been included. So they kick it out of the project area.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said pushback concerns use of tax increment, but well-designed transit-oriented development generates more increment and revenue than would otherwise occur.
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Uh, a lot of that is concern with the, uh, use, if I can be frank here, the use of tax increment, and it should be going, as was stated up here for some other uses. The benefit of this is that if you do it right, then there's more tax increment generated than otherwise. There would be if you build, you know, if you build, uh, a mixed use development with, with office and retail and, and, uh, residential and it's 15 units per acre and you get a hundred thousand square feet of, of the other stuff. But if you do this and you can go more vertical and it's around the, uh, it's around a track station …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said it is a coordinating clause with S.B. 39 allowing the Salt Lake convention zone to capture tax revenue for 30 years to rebuild the Salt Palace.
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No, this is co this is actually a coordinating clause with Senate Bill 39, which has already passed, which goes through and, and, uh, clarifies that the CCRZ may, uh, propose to capture the property tax and the sales tax for 30 years. Um, so that is just unique to the one CCRZ that's in Salt Lake City, clarifying how much of the increment that they can actually get. They're issuing bonds and, and just remember the CCRZ, none of that money is going to a developer that CCRZ was created in order to fund the rebuild of the Salt Palace. So Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County has said that they're gonna put 100% of the property tax …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the language reflects decisions the city and county already made.
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Mr. Chairman. So that is, that is just reflecting the decision that they have made already.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the bill prohibits overlapping project areas and that S.B. 206 will aggregate data so the state can see how much increment is committed.
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I, I share your concern with that. I do believe from my own research that there are overlapping project areas already. This bill is intended to prohibit that from happening again. We actually don't have a great handle on what happens right now with all these project areas. I think once we hit, we pass Senate Bill 2 0 6, which is the, um, change in the multi-county assessing, collecting trust bill, that, that all of that information will be aggregated and accumulated together into one location so we can actually find out what is going on and how much increment we have and if some of these project areas are still committing, getting, uh, uh, collecting tax increment when …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said zones have maximum acreage and life and that S.B. 228 could terminate inactive areas.
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No, the HTRZ has a maximum acreage and it has a maximum life. And I believe that once we get this information out and we do this type of stuff, we'll be able to go through and potentially terminate things that have not been triggered or not triggered or not operating properly. Okay. Thank you. Um, And again, that's in Senate Bill 2 28. Not in this bill.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said only one capital city convention zone exists, covering a three-block area, and explained the tax shares involved.
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No. And, and if I may, Mr. Chair Yeah, please. Okay. There is and will only be one convention set of reinvestment zone in Capital City. And again, that is a three block area around the Salt Palace. Um, the a hundred percent is the city and the county's per portion of the sales tax generated in that zone, not in anywhere else in the city. And the 50% of the sales and use tax is the additional half a percent sales tax that we authorize Salt Lake City to impose when, uh, they, uh, were granted the relocation of the Utah State Prison. And again, it's only within the boundary of the zone. So, and it cannot be expanded …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Explained the 50 percent share of the prison-related sales tax and that the city and county requested full capture within the small zone to fund Salt Palace reconstruction.
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No. Yeah, the, the second line down there going on 1745 is the 50% of that half a percent that was given with the, with the prison. The rest of that, the a hundred percent is the sales and property tax in that zone. And that's what Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County asked for in order to help fund the, uh, salt Palace reconstruction. It, it is weird cons, it looks like a whole lot of money, but I don't know if it's enough money for them to go through and actually do it. But again, it's in, in that couple block area and it's a sales tax and property tax and the convention center in its of …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said the capital city zone applies only to Salt Lake City and other first-class cities face different rules.
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Center in a couple of other places? No, no, No. This, this is the only one and this one you can, if you have another first class city, you can actually create A-C-C-R-Z, but it's not in a capital city. So that just limits it to Salt Lake City. So technically yes, you could potentially do one in Sandy City around the expo center and you can do one downtown, but it's not the capital city and the rules for the regular one are quite different.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Said he preferred passage and that holding the bill leaves GOEO in a regulatory role and leaves unclear triggers, convention center rules and boundary adjustments.
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Thank you. Um, you know, I'd prefer to have it pass out, uh, favorably. Um, what, without, with not passing it out, not putting into, into place, we go through and maintain goo as an administrative, not just administrative, but as a regulatory function, which they're not supposed to be. We will go through and potentially have some other, uh, HJ Z's created that may want more than three or five triggers. We will also have the, uh, lack of clarity for what happens around the Salt Palace Convention Center. Um, and we will also have things like, you know, lack of clarity for the developer if they need to do a boundary adjustment, some of the roles of the …
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · House Rules Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presents the resolution, noting Irish-American signers of the Declaration of Independence and the 250th anniversary, and describes its calls for a trade group, a memorandum of understanding, and an honorary consulate in Ireland.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, we've had, uh, eight people who were involved with the signing of the Declaration of Independence that were, um, of Irish heritage, and we had a bunch more who were involved in it. One, the printer of the, uh, declaration of Independence in Boston was, uh, Irish as well. Um, this goes through and just commemorates the 250th anniversary and the good co collaboration connections we have between Ireland and the United States. It is a little bit different because there are two sections in the be it therefore resolved or goes through and calls upon, um, uh, Ireland and the governor's office economic opportunity to create a work, a group together to go through …
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · House Rules Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Thanks the committee for its support.
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You. I appreciate, uh, your support of this. And may all you, all of us be blessed with a nice shale.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presents SB 242, a omnibus transportation cleanup bill covering local option sales tax uses, bonding, the Utah Trail Network, towing dispatch, road usage charges, and a Salt Lake City and UDOT coordination framework, and explains the changes in substitute three.
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Thank you. Uh, Senate Bill 2 42 is, uh, um, kind of the omnibus cleanup bill. We run one each year from, uh, the Transportation Interim Committee. And, uh, it contains a lot of stuff rather than running, uh, 15 or 16 bills. We've, uh, put a lot of stuff into the bill. Um, basically it, uh, takes care of number of items that, uh, that were brought up during the interim. It revises distribution and allow uses of, uh, local option sales tax for transport, transit, transit increases bonding authority for the Utah commuter or, uh, for, uh, potential UTA front runner bonding that is only a backstop in case we don't get the federal funding. Um, clarifies uses …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says towing companies would not be required to enter personally identifiable information into a database, and any such information inadvertently entered would be deleted.
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Go ahead. So yeah, we, the tours, um, the tours do not want to and personally identify identifiable information into a database. This goes through and says that they shall not, and it also says that if they inadvertently do it, then the, uh, towing dispatch software, we'll delete that information so there's no liability for the tows.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says there would be no penalty for towing companies but the software would handle the data, and that bad actors could be removed from the tow rotation.
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Address? Yeah, the way that, the way that that was, and I, sorry, I don't remember the line, but yes, on the, on the personally identified by identifiable information, yeah, there's, there will not be a penalty for the tow, but there'll have to be, that'll have to be handled by the software. There's also language in here to go through and address the, uh, if they're bad actors of how the, they're taken care of and they can be, you know, taken off the toe rotation and things of that nature.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says a clarification was requested to make clear that the funds can be used for park and ride facilities.
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Um, or what's the need for that in this bill There? That was a clarification was asked by, uh, I believe the representative was from Davis County saying that they need to do a park and ride and they wanna make sure that the funds, it was clear that they could use the, those funds for that as an eligible use.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says the provision is not intended to cover half-ton electric pickups and is meant for commercial delivery-type vehicles.
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That is not intended. The, the F-150 are not a, you know, they can be a commercial vehicle, right. But they can also be a passenger. Right? These, these are intended to be like the equivalent of the, uh, you know, the u your UPS delivery trucks, but they, I see that, that type of cha chassis and framework, but they're electric rather Than like the Rivian trucks that we're seeing out There. Yeah. Rivian and, and other models. Yes.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says he has not found a clean way to add a penalty, and that he will check with the software company about audits.
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Thank you. Um, I've not been able to find a good clean way to put in a penalty. That's why it's not in here. But to her question, I've reorganized and restructured this, the, the prohibition on personally identify by entering personally identifiable information the way that, uh, I thought was agreed to. I don't mind changing ma to shall that is more of a legislative staff drafting style using may rather than shall, but I don't have a problem with that. But, uh, on the auditing, I'm not sure. I would have to check with the, uh, I have, uh, the colonel check with the, uh, software company to see what audits can be done.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says may not and shall not have the same meaning, that drafting style has changed over time, and he is willing to use shall through a floor amendment.
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Is that right? Yeah. So may not means, But if you look down on line 7 45, I had 'em put in shall there? But the, the, the challenge is, is that over the years I've seen the drafting manuals go back, they do shall and then they change to May and then they go back to shall. And right now, I think we're in May, but if the committee wides, I'm comfortable with using the word shall and making a floor amendment on that.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says the food truck language clarifies that cities can restrict mobile food trucks during parades and events for safety.
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Yeah, thank you. On that, uh, this was brought, uh, brought to us. There's times that you have like a, a parade or a street event, things like that. And there was some question of whether a city could actually go through and stay with a mobile food truck or that you can park here, but you can't park there because of safety and traffic and, and pedestrian safety issues. This simply clarifies the fact that they actually can do that. They don't have to, but it's another tool for safety during the, the programs.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
In summation, thanks the committee and Salt Lake City, describes the towing and bicycle-related changes, and urges support for the bill.
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Thank you. I do appreciate everybody's participation in this. We've had extensive discussions, uh, since May with Salt Lake City, trying to get things in the place where we take this from, where we just have statutory guidance in the bill and put it into where, uh, uh, Salt Lake City deals with, uh, udot. And we've, uh, reduced the amount I believe of, of, uh, control that UDOT has. We're just going through and focusing on key things. Um, there's been some questions on the Power District. I don't see that, that this does much with the Power District. You've already got the, uh, green line going through there. So it's, it's already in place. Um, we are dealing …
H.B. 537 Olympic Ticket Sales Tax Exemption · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says short sessions help end bad bills because the deadline ends them, while year-round states let bills return, and says he is comfortable staying with the current schedule.
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Yeah, I appreciate Senator McKay, what you're doing, what you're talking about here. We've discussed this a couple times over the period that I've been up here. A couple things I've learned in my experience dealing nationally, Utah and Montana, and a couple other states that have really short sessions are the NV of Veva states because, uh, as I say, you know, you have a finite period of time, uh, the mischief ends and there are bad bills that actually die. You go into some of these other states that are year round and they have the biannual sessions and you cannot kill a bill, it comes back in another format. So, um, I am comfortable staying where we …
H.B. 514 Utah Energy Council Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Notes the bill has a $58 million fiscal impact from foregone revenue and asks whether the state and local governments would be held harmless.
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Thank you. Yeah, this has got a $58 million fiscal impact to it. Yeah. A foregone revenue, not anything current. So you're indicating that in other me means the state and the, and the subdivisions be, uh, Held harmless, correct?
H.B. 217 Stolen Vehicle Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Moves that H.B. 217 pass as the first substitute.
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Thank you. I'd move that house. Bill two 17 pass. First substitute house bill two 17 pass.
H.B. 300 School District Taxation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Moved a floor amendment to line 72 changing the period from five years to two years.
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Thank you. I'd move to amend on line 72. Delete the number five and replace with two. So is this a floor amendment or is this is A floor amendment? Yes. Okay. Lemme make sure I I get it right here. Line 72. Okay. Lemme make sure the circle has it too. So let's, why don't you go ahead and repeat that amendment. Yeah. That, So on line 72, delete the word number five and replace it with two. So it would read for a period of two years following a change. That's the only change. That's it.
H.B. 300 School District Taxation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Explained that the two-year figure was chosen after discussion with caucus members and stakeholders to balance the valuation and certified tax rate formulas.
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This is the, uh, the bill. We changed this, uh, statute last year, uh, reducing of five years down to two, uh, down to one year discussion with, uh, uh, caucus members and stakeholders on this. We decided the proper place to put it is at two years, uh, in order to go through and, uh, balance out everything that goes with the valuation certified tax rate and the uh, uh, different formulas that we have in statute.
H.B. 300 School District Taxation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Explained that the current year is counted, so a two-year period means a three-year look-back.
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Well, we're in the current all on, yeah, we are in year one. And then, so two years down the road, it actually put three years before the would actually impact the budget. So, uh, it, 'cause we count the current year and it's just two years from That. So effectively a two year means they have three year look back.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Presents SB 197, which changes UTA's governance to an executive director and a seven-member commission and adds a 0.05% sales tax growth source for transit funding from HB 586.
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Thank you very much, uh, Mr. Chair and Committee. I appreciate the opportunity to be before you. Again, I make a habit of this. I just love the transportation committees, both House and Senate. Um, back in from 2015 to 2017, there was a study of, uh, how to improve transit within the, the state of Utah. Do you want, do you wanna pull that mic a little closer? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. There was A study of how to improve transit in the state of Utah. We made some recommendations that not only helped the, a large public transit district, meaning UTA, but some of the smaller ones in, uh, uh, in, uh, other counties like Cash, Wasatch, Summit, …
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Explains the projected transit funding amounts by year, with about $74.5 million around 2034.
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2034 is about somewhere between 73 and 75 million based on projections. Does does that mean that year or does that mean total Now and that No, that, that, that's projection when we capture the new growth, that means how much more money we'll be going into transit In. But in 2020, in 2034, it would be 74 $500. Correct. Yeah, about
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Explains that the substitute adds the House bill's provisions.
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Thank you. It's what, what I explained earlier with the addition of, of the good chair's, uh, bill into mind.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Explains the existing transit districts and that the proposed commission is modeled on UDOT's commission and that neither has taxing authority.
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Transit Transit district, large public transit district is UTAA small public transit district. It'd be cas, sun Transit High Valley, uh, transit Park City. Those are the transit districts. Those are the operating systems. Transit Commission would beat commission is the seven member who would be replacing the three member board of trustees patterned after the UDOT Transit or Transportation Commission. So we've modeled what, what is successful in UDOT and moving it over to UTA. Okay. And no, they do not have taxing authority. Thank you.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Summarizes that the bill changes UTA governance, reduces administrative costs, and urges support.
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Thank you. I truly appreciate the good questions from this committee. And the, uh, wonderful remarks of the different stakeholders have actually spoken with some of the union folks and stewards. Uh, they've expressed, uh, some of their concerns that they did here and other things I have shared that with, uh, with the, uh, UTA administration. I believe this bill will go through and be more responsive now. And, uh, you know, you've got some great employees that are out there. I'm hoping that we can hire a whole bunch more because that is a good organization for for transit. As to represen or Representative Ivory's comments, this bill in and of itself is fiscally restrained and responsible. This …
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Presented S.C.R. 10, a simple resolution requested by stakeholders, stating Utah's continued commitment to advanced air mobility so that investors see the state is ready for vertiports, charging, and early air taxi and parcel delivery before the Olympics.
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Um, concurrent resolution emphasizing Utah's commitment to Advanced Air Mobility. Thank you. This is a simple resolution that was, has been requested by the stakeholders. Utah has become a leader in advanced air mobility. Uh, we're really not running any bills on that this year. However, we are working with a couple stakeholders that have asked what is Utah's continued commitment to advanced air mobility before they start making major investments in the state. This resolution goes through and says, we are committed to it. We're gonna make sure that we have the verti ports, we have all of the, uh, uh, the, uh, electric charges and everything in place. So before the Olympics, we can have, uh, air, uh, …
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Said Salt Lake City plans rooftop vertiport pads on a parking structure, that some vertiports are simply marked spots, and that electric chargers are the main infrastructure need and are still under development.
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Uh, you will see, uh, Salt Lake City is they, uh, expand their, uh, parking gr uh, parking garage. They'll put some pads on top of that, on the roof structure for some verti ports there. Uh, you already have places with a couple cities where they have verti ports and they're nothing more than a marked spot on, on the, uh, tarmac. So it's, there's not a lot of of infrastructure that is needed. The biggest thing would be electric chargers, and those are under development. And there's a couple companies that are looking at potentially bringing those in as they start testing out, uh, their, um, uh, VT oils, vertical takeoff and Blanding electric, uh, vehicles.
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Said the state's main roles are working with the FAA on airspace and air traffic control and providing safe takeoff and landing sites.
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Okay. Our main things work with the A FAA to make sure we have the airspace to do it, the air traffic control, and then we have a place, safe place for them to take off and land. Alright.
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Thanked the committee for its consideration and said more good work on the topic is coming.
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I appreciate the committee and, and, uh, stay tuned. There's a lot of good stuff coming.
H.B. 105 Child Welfare Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Explains that H.B. 105 clarifies a 2025 law allowing a parent to petition for visitation after permanent custody was granted to the child's other parent, because a court ruled the law could not apply retroactively; the bill states that a parent who has changed their behavior may petition.
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This bill clarifies, uh, uh, section of code that was passed last year that allows it 1 0 5 allows the parent to petition when permanent custody was granted to the child's other parent Or, Or when the permanent custody order, when the permanent custody order was entered. Boy, I can't even say that one. But anyway, uh, there's, there was a court that said that it, you couldn't have this retroactive before the, the effective date of the bill. This clarifies that is the intent that if a parent has changed to their behavior, then they have the right to petition for visitation. Thank you. Are there, is there any discussion to the bill?
H.B. 217 Stolen Vehicle Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Makes a motion regarding House Bill 300, School District Taxation Amendments.
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Motion to encircle house bill 300. We have a motion to encircle house bill. 300 School district taxation amendments.
H.B. 105 Child Welfare Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Moves that H.B. 105, as a first substitute, pass.
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Thank you. I move that first house bill 1 0 5 pass And the motion is shall first substitute house bill one oh five pass roll call vote.
H.B. 300 School District Taxation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Says a change made last year shortened the hold harmless period from five years to one year, and that his intent is to restore five years and move the bill to third reading while negotiations on the period continue.
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You. Last year there was a change to the, uh, five year, uh, hold harmless period. Uh, it went from five years down to one year. Uh, good representative from uh, Davis County went through and wanted to restore that based on discussion with his districts, uh, from the one year that was put in code last year to five years. My intent is to go through and if this passes, move it to third until we finish our negotiations on how long this period of hold harmless should be. Thank you for the presentation. Seeing no discussion of the bill, I'm gonna go to you for sum summation in a motion. Thank you.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Explains that the amendment undoes earlier changes to the fifth funds and clarifies how the 0.1 percent transit money is split between the county, the TTF, and the commuter rail fund.
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Yes. There were some changes that were made, uh, on the, uh, fifth, fifth funds, uh, in the bill. We are undoing those changes and clarifying that the money from the, uh, 0.1 that goes to the, uh, uh, into transportation, into transit, half goes to the county. There half goes to the TTF, and the clarification is into the commuter rail, uh, fund.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Summarizes the bill's cleanup provisions, including bus lane parking, UDOT property conveyance, front runner bonding, a Utah trail network, disaster duties, local reporting, and Salt Lake City agreements.
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Thank you. This bill goes through and has a lot of, uh, cleanups on it. It goes through and, and exempt buses from operating in a, uh, that they may go through and, and park in a bike bike lane if they need to catch up on their timeframes. Uh, exempts, uh, udot from certain requirements related to the conveyance of real property so they can operate, uh, and build the, uh, front runner, uh, goes through and, um, increases bonding authorization just in case we need it for front runner defines and establishes the Utah, uh, trail network clarifies the duties of executive director during a natural disaster, uh, clarifies and requires that local governments that receive funds from …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Moves that second substitute S.B. 242, as amended, pass.
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Thank you. I'd move that, uh, second substitute Senate bill 2 42 as amended pass.
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Sen. Harper presented SB 237, which would authorize a study of whether the driver license division and motor vehicle divisions should be consolidated, examining customer service, cost savings, and effectiveness.
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I only aim for the best. Um, over 70 years ago when, uh, we created, uh, departments of, uh, motor vehicle enforcement division, driver's license department, and, uh, who's the other one? Whatever, motor vehicle, the three different divisions. Um, they was decided that time, which I don't know why, to go through and, and separate those out. Okay. Uh, the executive branch a couple years ago started to take a look at study, never finished as to whether we should consolidate or keep these, uh, separate. Um, uh, the interim, our last interim, there was some discussion. We did not have enough time. So, uh, this goes in and authorized as a study to be conducted to see if …
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presents the bill, which defines terms for community reinvestment project areas, sets a six-month period to wind up after collection ends, and allows one two-year extension by agreement.
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Thank you. Um, this is a fairly simple bill, bill with, uh, important impact. Uh, we've had since I think about 1974, we've created redevelopment project areas with various names, uh, urban renewal areas, economic development areas, uh, community reinvestment areas, redevelopment. There's a whole bunch of acronyms. We've changed and modified that over the year or the years. This bill is simple in its intent, is it's, it creates, uh, some definitions and then it goes through and says that once your, uh, period that you've been authorized for to collect is, is ended, you have basically six months to wrap it up in return. Any excess funds collected to the taxing indies who oppose, impose the, the, uh, …
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presented SB 172, which covers unclaimed property at the airport, aircraft registration, and drone rules for law enforcement.
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Thank you. Uh, this bill is, uh, deals with three, uh, three different issues. First issue was brought to me by, uh, Salt Lake Department of Airports. Uh, they wanted a process, a cleaner process, and they needed some statutory backup on that in order to expedite the return and the, uh, outreach for people who've left items in an airplane or an air at the airport, so they can get the ba, the material, the property back to the, uh, to the rightful owner. So it creates a process, timelines, notification requirements, things, things of that nature. The second one is, is last year we ran a bill to go through and clarify and clean up the registration of …
H.B. 170 School Board Referendum Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Asks whether school district noticing and hearing timelines differ from those for cities and special districts.
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Thank you. So we're talking about the notices and all those type of things for public hearing and adopting. Is your timeframe for that noticing different than say, the, the cities or the special districts? Or are you under the same notice and and provisions as every other taxing entity?
H.B. 170 School Board Referendum Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Says the school district would be in the same situation as a city facing a referendum.
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Okay. Well, that you'd be in the same situation as what other city if they had a referend to go through and do that. So, okay. Thank you.
H.B. 170 School Board Referendum Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend second substitute HB 170.
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Senator Harper, Thank you. And move that we, uh, favorably, uh, recommend second substitute house bill one 70.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Responded that the FAA regulates airspace and that airport operations follow FAA and TSA rules, and said he cannot predict what Congress will do.
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Uh, yes. The FAA does regulate the airspace. Um, and they are involved with ground operations. We have, uh, Salt Lake City and other airports around the country and the world that go through and deal with the FAA. So, yes, the FAA regulates the airspace. They regulate the airplanes. We have support operations on the ground. You have to have some place where the people go through where they can interact with the, with TSA. And then the second question was On the Constitution, I think, Oh, yeah, I, I don't see, you know, there is a partnership with the FAA and what happens with the airport is in conjunction with the FAA. So I don't see a problem …
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Summarized the bill as a way to return lost property to owners and treat all airplanes similarly under tax and administrative codes.
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Seeing none, we'll go back to the sponsor for summation. Thank you. Appreciate the, uh, committee's time and the great questions on, on this bill. We've gotta make sure that things are operating correctly and we get the property back to the rightful owners as quickly as possible, and that all airplanes are treated similarly under our, uh, under our tax and administrative codes.
H.B. 519 Unclaimed Property Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Moved to favorably recommend H.B. 519 substitute to the floor.
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Senator Harper. Thank you. Uh, I move that we would favorably recommend House Bill five 19 for substitute to the floor.
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presents SB 71, which refines the 2024 evidence retention law for misdemeanor and felony evidence, especially biological evidence, and reorganizes the code to align the process.
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Thank you. Good Morning Committee. Appreciate you taking the time to, uh, hear this bill. I have with me, uh, chief Coum Taylorsville City, uh, police chief. Uh, two years ago we ran a bill on evidence, uh, retention, um, with the intent to make sure that we re that, uh, law enforcement retains the evidence only as long as necessary, that we return the evidence back to the rightful owner as soon as practicable. Uh, that's been in place for two years. And the stakeholders came to me and said, Hey, after doing that, we need to make a couple tweaks a little bit on misdemeanor and a little bit on felony, uh, especially dealing with biological, uh, evidence. …
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Says the bill refines prior work, respects the rights of the accused and victims, and clarifies retention questions such as how much seized material must be kept.
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Um, yeah. We've worked a long time on this again, to, to refine it. Again, this is re uh, respecting the rights of the accused and there it really clarifies. I mean, if you have some, a lot of marijuana, do you need to keep the whole 20 pounds or just a sample of it? You know, it clarifies all that type of stuff. So I think it really is good and it goes through and really respects the process, more importantly, the accused and the victim.
H.B. 105 Child Welfare Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Presents H.B. 105, which clarifies that a parent may petition when permanent custody was granted to the child's other parent, regardless of when that order was entered, and says the bill has retroactive effect.
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House Bill 1 0 5 allows a parent to petition when permanent custody was granted to the child's other parent regardless of when the permanent custody order was entered. There was a confusion in the courts and this just clarifies that, that it does have, uh, retro retroactive operation. Thank you for the presentation.
H.B. 105 Child Welfare Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Moves that the first substitute for H.B. 105 be read a third time.
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I'd move the first sub house bill 1 0 5. Be read for a third time. Thank
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Presented SB 123 to expand the cybersecurity commission, extend Utah Cyber Center support to education and government entities, and create a restricted account for the center.
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We're doing really well. Thank you, Mr. Committee, chair and all the committee. Uh, this bill. As you know, one of the issues that we are dealing with on free, you know, too frequently and unfortunately is the, uh, attack on privacy and cybersecurity and all the hacks that are going on. We have a very good, uh, Utah cyber, uh, center that has, uh, been able to help a lot of, uh, local governments with the work on, on preventing hacks and addressing ransomware and things of that nature. Nature. Uh, we've had federal funding for that program and we've had a lot of federal support, but that now is expiring. This bill goes through and adds a couple, …
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Explained that UETN and DEQ representatives would be added to the commission to work with local entities and bring their needs back to the commission. · speaker not certain
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Thank you. My friends will tell me in the back. Mm-hmm. I could tell so many, so many acronyms, but what it is, it allows with the addition of A-U-E-T-N person and DEQ person to go through and start working more collaboratively and bring those issues back to the commission so that those needs and the things they're saying are dealt with, and we can go through and implement the best response and, and predictive preventative measures. So it's just incorporating them and allowing this group to help out more with the locals.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said no single entity can respond alone to cyberattacks and that the bill lets entities share information and respond quickly; urged support.
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Thank you. Um, no single public entity can operate in isolation with what's going on with all the attacks. Those are international, they're pretty sophisticated right now. The nature and purpose of this is to get everybody together to collaborate that when something hits one entity, an LEA or a, or a water district that are generally going after others. So, so this, so they can share that information and really respond in a timely manner. So we're all in this together, and I'd urge your support of this bill.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Presents S.B. 206, which consolidates tax increment financing bills and proposals into a statewide reporting and administration program with a technology solutions program, a program manager, and a unified software system.
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you. This bill goes to, uh, consolidates a number of other bills and proposals dealing with, uh, tax increment financing, reporting and reforms. Uh, it creates unified statewide program or format focused on transparency reporting and administration of tax increment. It establishes the statewide tax administration Technology solutions program and a program manager in order to operate that. And it consolidates things between the county go EEO and other and local cities into one seamless, uh, software program that will be able to provide us the information that we need and other entities need, uh, dealing with tax increment. That's what the bill does.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Notes that the fiscal note is not yet available and moves to circle the bill. · speaker not certain
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Senator Harper. Senator Harper, we Motion to circle, we do not have the fiscal note.
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Explains that S.B. 228 addresses terminating redevelopment project areas, reporting on them, returning unspent funds to taxing entities, and public hearings that may continue for up to two years.
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Thank you. Uh, this bill goes through and, uh, deals with the process of terminating, uh, redevelopment project areas goes and clarifies when they are done, how they're reported out the return of their, uh, unended funds to the, uh, imposing, taxing entities and, uh, the ability to go through and have a public hearing to continue at one time for up to two years rather than the indefinite the current, uh, currently exists in code.
S.B. 306 Special Districts Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Moves that S.B. 306 be passed out favorably.
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Thank You. Um, I'd move that we pass out favorably Senate Bill 3 0 6.
S.B. 309 Single-family Home Rental Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Asked why townhomes and other attached homes are excluded from the bill.
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Thank you. Um, this is an interesting proposal. It's got some good elements and some that some people do not agree to, which you've highlighted my question. Those on line 5 0 9 and elsewhere as I read it, it's detached only you have, uh, detached, uh, homes, but you also have town homes that are attached. They, they wouldn't be included under this.
S.B. 309 Single-family Home Rental Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Noted that many first-time buyers start with a townhome or condo.
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Okay. 'cause a lot of people buy a town home or condo as their first, uh, foray into the housing market. And so it was just wondering for the rest of
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Presents SB 151 as a funding mechanism using existing insurance premium tax revenue to address about three quarters of the Utah Highway Patrol trooper shortage, and explains that the fourth substitute swaps funding sources with the firefighters cancer trust fund bill.
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Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to present this bill. Um, as you know, we've got many, many dedicated, uh, troopers within the state of Utah. You, you wanna pull that up just a little bit? Yeah, we have many troopers within the state of Utah. They're doing a, you know, phenomenal job of, uh, uh, patrolling and keeping our, uh, roadways safe. However, we also have had a wonderful heritage of building more and more roads and widening existing freeways. Um, we've been able to over the years to, uh, um, create additional troopers for, uh, the, uh, west Davis corridor for Bangore Highway. Um, part of I 15. But if you take a look at what's going on, we're …
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Responds to the committee discussion and says the fourth substitute is the right way to do it.
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You must, you must gimme an A for creativity representative. But yeah, this is the right way to do it with the fourth sub.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Sen. Harper explains the third substitute, which incorporates other bills and stakeholder agreements, covers valuation and taxation of personal property and telecommunication services, and creates the STATS system to replace MCAT for online tax reporting.
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Yes. After meeting with, uh, after having this bill out there public, uh, there's a lot of discussion and what we've done is we've incorporated a handful of other bills into this as well as met with the stakeholders with the redevelopment agencies, uh, goo inland port, uh, might and others. This Bill third substitute represents the agreement on that, uh, dealing with, uh, valuation taxation of, uh, uh, personal property in telecommunication services. And most importantly, this bill goes through and creates a new system which we've lovingly called Stats, which is the statewide tax administration and Technology solution system that replaces the former MCAT system that allows the, uh, the, uh, the program manager at, uh, at the …
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Sen. Harper says the bill will help people understand how much tax increment is authorized.
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Uh, no. It just, it's a great bill and I think it will really enhance everybody's ability to understand how much tax in tax tax increment is out there and, uh, how it's been authorized.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Explains that the second substitute is an annual cleanup bill for CRAs and HZs that makes technical changes after stakeholder input, clarifying definitions, extraterritorial units, notices, and duties of the GO EEO.
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Yes. Um, this is the annual cleanup bill for CRA's HG Zs, the of things that we need to clarify and to improve. After we got the bill out there, we had, uh, stakeholders and, and other end parties come back and make some, uh, technical cleanups to this bill. And this, uh, second bill goes through and clarifies definitions on, on, uh, fizz, on extraterritorial units, uh, notices and, uh, and, uh, some of the, uh, duties of GO EEO dealing with these zones.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Describes a coordinating clause with another bill, lets CRAs submit separate notices when they begin collecting tax increment, updates reporting requirements, and adds reviews of HDZs or other project areas not triggered within a set period.
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Yes. Thank you. Um, one of the big changes in this substitute is a coordinating clause with another bill goes through and clarifies, uh, uh, zoning or density changes that would impact the, uh, the approved, uh, programs goes through and allows, um, CRAs to go through and, and submit separate notices when they begin the collecting taxing increment, uh, goes through and, uh, updates some of the reporting requirements that are allowed, uh, and goes through and, uh, has reviews if the, uh, requires reviews of the HD Zs or the other project areas have not been triggered within a certain period of time.
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Moves that the second substitute Senate Bill 221 be read a third time.
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Thank you. I'd move that second substitute Senate Bill 2 21. Be read for a third time.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Describes SB 197 as reorganizing the UTA administration with an executive director and seven commissioners, thanks the three trustees, and says he worked on it with Rep. Christofferson.
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Thank you. This is the, uh, reorganization and the improvement that is needed going forward with the, uh, uh, UTA administration goes through and, uh, uh, gives thanks to, uh, the three trustees who have served for, uh, nine years. But it puts, it puts, uh, UUTA under the structure that UDOT has with executive director and then seven transit commissioners. They have specific qualifications and duties for both the, uh, commissioners and for the director. I've worked hard on this to make sure along with Representative Christofferson, that this is the right move going forward to maximize the investment that, that we have in, uh, transit and the additional investments going on as we prepare for transit and for …
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Moves to encircle SB 237, the Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division consolidation amendments.
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Thank you. Motion to encircle Senate bill 2 37. We have a motion encircle Senate Bill 2 37 Driver's License Division and Motor Vehicle Division consolidation amendments.
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Sen. Harper says the bill calls for finishing an executive branch study on consolidating the motor vehicle, driver licensing, and MVED functions under one agency, to test efficiency, cost savings, and customer experience.
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Thank you. This goes through and, and, uh, hopefully you'll finish up a study that was started by the executive branch. Taking a look at the interim committee, we need some additional eyes on this to see if it makes sense, if there's efficiency, cost savings, and better customer experience if we consolidate motor vehicle division, motor driver's licensing and MVED under the same umbrella agency.
S.C.R. 9 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Critical Minerals Development and Funding · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Moves to delete and replace first substitute S.B. 242, a transportation amendments bill, with second substitute S.B. 242.
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Senator Harper, Thank you. I move to delete and title embody first substitute Senate bill 2 42 and replaced with second substitute Senate Bill 2 42.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Explains the substitute bill's changes, including the commuter rail bonding increase, the Salt Lake County infrastructure loan fund, towing language, and duties related to HDDZs.
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Um, after the first substitute came out, there was some additional discussion with stakeholders including Salt Lake County as to, uh, not, I'm sorry, Salt Lake City. As to some of the technical wording. As we move forward with the, uh, repeal of Senate Bill 1 95, it, uh, go through and increases the, uh, bonding authorization for commuter rail expansion from 2 32 to 530 million that is not intended to be used, but if we don't get all the money from the federal government for double tracking, it's a backstop, uh, goes through and, uh, clarifies some of the use of these, uh, Salt Lake County, uh, infrastructure loan bank, uh, fund that is there, who it goes …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Says the bill is good going forward and covers UTA transportation deals, road user charge clarification, and UDOT property conveyance, then opens for questions.
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Yeah, there's, there's been a lot of discussion on that and I really appreciate the people who have been involved with this. I think it's a good bill going forward for transportation deals with, uh, UTA, uh, clarifying Road user charge, um, conveyance of property by udot, uh, direction of the fifth, fifth and things like that. So with that, I'm open for any questions.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Waives summation and moves that the second substitute, as amended, be read a third time.
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Thank I'll waive summation to move that second substitute Senate bill 2 42 as amended. Be read for a third time. Thank
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Harper explains the bill, which clarifies when redevelopment project areas are dissolved, what happens to outstanding funds, and allows a one-time two-year extension, with any benefit returning to the taxing entities.
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of the taxing entities. What this bill does is go through and clarify when a redevelopment project area with all its different iterations is dissolved, which terminates clarifies what happens with the, uh, outstanding funds, allows a one time extension for only two years. Right now you can extend it for however many years you, you want. It really is a bill that goes with and identifies and enables, uh, uh, the agencies, the auditors, uh, county auditors and other stakeholders to really find out what's there with the project areas and to clean those up so that they are absolutely closed out when they should be. And the benefit of that BUN B returned back to the taxing entities …
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Harper moves Amendment 2, which fixes several cross references and clarifies the eight-year timing for review of a project area.
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Yes, I'm moving it. Um, it goes through and just clarifies there were several cross references that were in there that, uh, needed to be fixed and then, uh, clarifies the eight years after the day in which an agency proved the project area. Uh, review of that project area has not started.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Presents S.B. 197, which would replace the three-member transit trustees with a full-time executive director and a transit commission, and clarify duties and partnerships, and says he has an amendment.
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uh, transit. Uh, we've had, uh, changes in governance. The last big one was in 2017, uh, we created a new form of governance that is not existing in any other transit district in the country. Um, that has worked well in some ways, not as well as what we had anticipated. So what we've done here is after, uh, nearly a, uh, a year long in, um, investigation and research we're, we're presenting here the opportunity to go through and, um, improve transit in the state of Utah in our large, large public transit district. What we're doing with this is retiring the, uh, three member trustees and replacing that with a full-time executive director and seven members of …
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Explains the amendment, which clarifies transit commissioners' duties, their interaction with local entities and appointing bodies, and their required reports, after meeting with stakeholders.
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Yes. After, uh, sitting down with the, uh, the association governments, the League of Cities and Towns and other stakeholders, they wanted a little bit more clarification of what the duties of the transit commissioners are, uh, how they interact with the local entities, with their appointing personnel and with, uh, the different reports that they're required to do. And that that's what the, uh, amendment does.
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Presents S.J.R. 13, which recognizes Irish American involvement in the 250th anniversary of the United States, including eight signers of the Declaration of Independence born in Ireland or of Irish descent, and encourages expanded trade and educational partnerships between Ireland and Utah.
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This resolution, uh, highlights and commemorates. The Irish American Involvement and Partnership on the 250th anniversary of the United States recognizes eight signers of the Declaration Pendants were born in Ireland or of Irish des descent and encourages expanded economic trade and educational partnerships between Ireland and the state of Utah.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Says the bill is a significant step forward for maximizing transit investment ahead of the Olympics and opens the bill to questions.
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I just think, uh, that this is a great, great step forward, especially as we want to maximize the investment as the state looks for partnering more, uh, as we prepare for the Olympics. And with that, I'm open for questions.
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Asks whether a motion is needed and moves that the resolution pass.
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Thank you. Need a motion? And with that, a call that move that SGR 13 pass.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Responds that he has asked the same question, that the response to the bill has been supportive, and that local officials appear comfortable with the change.
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question. Thank You. That's a great question. I've asked myself the same thing. Uh, we put this bill out. We anticipated a lot of, uh, public questions and comments. The response we got back was, we've made a change. It's not working as well as we wanted. We support this change. I mean, you haven't really seen anything in the press. Uh, all the, uh, local officials are saying yes, it's time for a change as well as a lot of, uh, uh, a lot of other stakeholders. So yeah, I don't have the answer. I just know that they seem comfortable with the way we're heading.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Gives summation, says the amendments were made with the League of Cities and Towns to address local involvement, and moves that S.B. 197 as amended be read a third time.
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Thank you. And I appreciate the good, uh, Senator from, uh, Utah County. Um, that's why we made the, uh, the amendments today in conjunction with the League of Cities and Towns. There's still some discu discomfort about how people are appointed that, but, uh, overall, that is the only thing that I see as, as, and that, uh, those comments have come with the last, you know, they're fairly recent. That's why I sat down with the stakeholders the last couple days to come up with something that, uh, may involve the locals more. So with that, Mr. President, I would move that Senate Bill 1 97 as amended. Be read for a third time.
S.B. 215 Eviction Record Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Asks why the period in the bill is one year rather than another length of time, noting it was three years in the original bill.
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Thank you. It used to be three years in the original bill. It's in 90 days now. It's one year. Can you explain to me why it's one year rather than some other period
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Explains that the bill authorizes a study, with a consultant, of whether the driver license, motor vehicle, and motor vehicle enforcement divisions should be consolidated, to see if this would save money, improve efficiency, and improve the customer experience.
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Appreciate it. Um, a little while ago, there was some discussion that, uh, was held with the executive branch of, of whether the driver's license division, motor vehicle division, motor vehicle enforcement divisions should stay in the separate agencies being GPS and the tax commission. They should be consolidated that, uh, was not finished. Um, and then during the interim we talked about it and then working with the stakeholders was decided we needed to go through and get some, uh, funding and to clarify, get a clear view as to whether these three entities, a, uh, divisions should be consolidated. We're looking to see if they would save money, improve the efficiency, and create a better customer experience. So …
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Moves that Senate Bill 237 be read a third time.
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Thank you. I'd move that Senate Bill 2 37. Be read for a third time.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Harper presented SB 122, which makes clarifying changes to the HOA ombudsman office and its published guidance, and said a substitute from Rep. Walter proposes further changes.
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Thank you. Um, house Bill 1 22 is a bill that I worked on with a number of stakeholders dealing with. Uh, we put in the office of the, uh, HOYA ombudsman. Uh, that office has been up. It's, uh, started to go pretty good. As we, as I talked with, uh, that office and with other stakeholders. They identified, uh, some things that they thought would be very good, uh, to go through and clarify. Those include the office must publish, the advisor provision, uh, additional items on the website, um, frequently asked questions. Uh, office provided, uh, simple, easy to understand policy guidelines, including rights and responsibilities, and how HR are formed and dissolved and go through and …
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said the basketball standards issue has been discussed before and that the board or committee could adopt the amendment.
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Yeah, I didn't know about that till I came in here. Yes, it has been discussed before, not just in this session, but in others. I think it would be something that the CAI institute probably be, eh, but I think if the ca if the board wants to adopt or the committee wants to adopt it, that can be okay.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Gave summation, saying the substitute is better than either original bill and thanking stakeholders such as CAI for their work on negotiations.
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You, Mr. Chair and committee. Appreciate your time and patience on this. I think we've got something that I, that is better than what either my original bill and Representative Walters were. And my sincere thanks to the CAI and the other people who were involved with this on the negotiations. They were truly stellar in what they did. And I think this bill goes through and creates more clarity for condo and, and homeowner homeowners in the HOAs. So thank you for your support of this bill.
H.B. 181 Uniform Estate Planning Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Begins speaking on S.C.R. 10, a resolution emphasizing Utah's commitment to Advanced Air Mobility, and describes state actions taken over the last several years.
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Senator Harper, Thank you. Over the last several years, we've done a lot to, uh,
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Sen. Harper presented S.C.R. 10, describing Utah's advanced air mobility efforts, including drone deliveries, drone ports, charging infrastructure, and preparations for taxis and the Olympics, and said the resolution calls for greater partnership with the FAA and stakeholders.
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Over the last several years, we've done a lot to, uh, make Utah leader in advanced air mobility, including, uh, we have drone deliveries currently going on. We've got, uh, uh, drone ports and, uh, different type of places for the, uh, drones, advanced air mobility to land. We've, uh, in improved our electronic and our charging infrastructure for this. And, uh, we're getting ready for taxis and for the Olympics. So this resolution, uh, acknowledge what we're doing and calls on for greater partnership with FAA and stakeholders to make sure that we get everything with our air technology ready for now and for the future,
H.B. 62 Road Jurisdiction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Harper presents H.B. 62, an annual bill adjusting road jurisdiction for new and modified state highways, affects roads in Utah County and southern Salt Lake County, and moves that the second substitute pass.
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Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this is our annual, uh, cleanup Bear bill where we go through and, and when there are new construction state highways or modifications where we trade with, uh, cities or counties on geo on roads, this is the annual bill to do this. Uh, this year the roads that are affected are only in Utah County, uh, to be in Southern Salt Lake County Dean Mountain View Corridor, Porter Rockwell Boulevard, pioneer Crossing, and a couple of roads just to make sure those have been added to, constructed and open. They're on the state maintenance list. Thank you for the presentation. Senator. I'll take A thank, I'll move that second substitute house Bill 62 pass.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Says the bill removes the inspection fee cap for salvage vehicles, street legal ATVs and kit cars, which must still be safety inspected.
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Thank you. A number of years ago, uh, the legislature repealed the, uh, safety and inspection program. However, it kept a requirement for salvage vehicles, street legal ATVs and kit cars to still be safety inspected before going on the road. Um, we left in a fee cap from that's been in there for over 10, probably 12 years. What this bill does remove that inspection fee cap. So someone needs to do that. They can work with the, uh, inspection station and uh, shop around for the best rate.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Moves that the bill be read for a third time. · speaker not certain
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Thank Good. Move that house. Bill 1 92, be read for a third time. Thank
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents S.B. 123, which clarifies cybersecurity practices, creates a restricted fund, and makes technical amendments.
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Thank you. Uh, this bill goes through and clarifies the, uh, practices of cybersecurity and how we deal with that. Creates restricted fund and makes technical amendments.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Moves that second substitute S.B. 123 pass.
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for a motion. Thank You. I'd move the second substitute Senate bill 1 23 pass.
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Moves to circle the third substitute of Senate Bill 151, Public Safety Funding Amendments.
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Thank you. Motion encircle. Third substitute Senate Bill 1 51 Public Safety Funding Amendments. We
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Says the bill was substituted after good discussion and that the fiscal note has now returned showing the fiscal impact.
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We had good discussion on this and we, uh, substituted it and we are waited for fiscal note. And that fiscal note is back now showing the fiscal impact
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Asks why language about beneficial use was struck from the bill.
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Um, in here, there's, there's some language that's stricken out dealing with beneficial use. Can you clarify why that's been removed?
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Expresses concern about removing the long-standing beneficial use standard unless it is covered elsewhere in the code.
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Okay. I just think Senator Harper further. No, I just wanna have another comment. Yeah. If we're taking a concept of, of beneficial use, that's been a long-term standard and I'm a little bit concerned about that unless it's covered elsewhere in the, in the code.
H.B. 57 Motor Vehicle Division Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents House Bill 57, a technical cleanup covering vehicle weight, special interest and street legal vehicles, fees, auction and branded titles, and odometer statements.
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Thank you. House Bill 57 is a, uh, technical cleanup that, uh, was heard during the interim. Uh, changes in recommendations done by the tax commission and Department of Transportation, clarifying vehicle weight, shipping weight, special interest vehicles, street legal vehicles, clean up of fees and charges, um, clarifying things that have a motor vehicle auction, uh, branded titles, a bunch of other technical things that are in there and, uh, clarify some of the odometer statements and things like that. And that's what the bill does. Thank you for the presentation.
H.B. 57 Motor Vehicle Division Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Moves that House Bill 57 be read for a third time.
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Thank you. I'd move that. Uh, house Bill 57. Be read for a third time.
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Explains that HB 128 removes the requirement to use a turn signal when entering or exiting a roundabout, because the exits are too close for signaling.
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that's right on the uh, south side of the Capitol, you'll notice you come up State Street. You've got, uh, two exits and two entrances plus potential. Third one with the right in currently in code, it's not clear whether you're required to use a signal when you enter or exit that most, uh, law enforcement officers saying yes you have to do it, but there's also requirement that you have to signal for at least two seconds. When you go under that and you want to go to the second exit, you have to put your signal on before you pass the first exit. There's a lot of confusion with that. Roundabouts are designed to, uh, maximize and simplify …
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Moves that HB 128 be read for a third time.
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Thank you. I'd move that house. Bill 1 28, be read for third time. Thank you.
S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks whether the bill would put the state out of compliance with the Streamlined Sales Tax Act.
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Thank you. Um, Senator McKell, I presume the way you've crafted this, it would not put us out of compliance with the streamlined Sales Tax Act. Is that correct?
S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Acknowledges the explanation and wants the point on the record.
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I'm aware of that, but I wanted that on the record. Yep, Good question. Okay. Thank you.
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Presents S.B. 185, which clarifies the duties of the parental representation program and provides support for parental defense services and program administration.
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Thank you. Um, to those who are in the committee this morning, I apologize. This bill is not over 200 pages, it's just one sheet of paper, so not characteristics of me. This bill goes through and, and clarifies the, uh, child welfare, parental representation, what their duties are and what they should be doing. There've been a couple questions, uh, but basically provide support for ancient parental defense services and administered the par the Parental, uh, representation program. We've restructured a little bit and I think it's more clear on what their duties are. That was a short presentation for a 200 page bill. Well, This one's short bill. Yeah.
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Explains that funding is still subject to appropriation and that the bill bases contracts on the amount expended in the prior year.
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Yeah. Good. Great question. They are subject to appropriation. This does not, uh, change that, uh, but it goes through and clarifies, um, that if you look at line 44, it's based on the amount expended in the prior year. So they based their contracts on what they have right now, rather than saying, oh, we think we're gonna get more, therefore we'll do another contract or something like that. It's more fiscally responsible.
S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Says the bill may not conform with uniform and equal treatment of taxpayers and that he cannot support it.
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Well, my light's been on. I wasn't gonna highlight that. Thank you. I appreciate the sponsor's passion on this. However, I don't think it falls in conformance with uniform and equal treatment of taxpayers. It's creating some call outs and I'm not sure, I don't, I'm not sure that it is in conformance with efa. So, um, I, at this point, I can't support the bill.
S.B. 279 State Homeless Campus Neighbor Tax Credit · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Suggests the credit may fit better under the property tax or general fund because the impacts involve property, social services, transportation, and enforcement.
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Thank you. You had similar, uh, vein of questioning that I have. I guess, I mean, if you take a look at it, the real impact on the neighbors deals with their property. Therefore, I think this should be property. Okay. You can use the education fund as amended for the children and, and you know, disabled, things like that. But if you look at holistically, it's probably more appropriate as a general fund. 'cause you're dealing with social services, you're dealing with property, you're dealing with transportation, you're dealing with, uh, enforcement issues, uh, counseling, things like that. So I think, I don't know which the best fund to, to tap on this, but I think that's an item …
S.B. 279 State Homeless Campus Neighbor Tax Credit · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend SB 279 as amended.
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Move that we favorably recommend Senate Bill 2 89, excuse me, not 2 89. 2 79 As amended. As amended.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Presented SB 39 as a reorganization that consolidates housing incentive programs from several code sections into one section, with no policy change.
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Thank you. Um, Senate Bill 39 is a simple reification. It's a big bill. Okay. Uh, what happened over the summer was, uh, the governor was looking at whether where to put all the housing incentive programs in the state. It was going back and forth between GOO and Workforce Services. Uh, the executive branch made a determination to move everything in under goo for the incentives, um, and, uh, which would require some statutory changes. I took that opportunity to go through and take all of the, the housing incentives and move them from, um, the county code, from the city code, from Workforce Services and merge them together. We had definitions for like the CCRZ over in the …
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Explained that the language clarifies the convention center reinvestment zone's existing funds, which go to the county and are not municipal funds.
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Say that 5 7 0 2. Yep. Oh, that one is, that one is with a convention center reinvestment zone. Again, that's existing language that clarifies the CCRZ was put in place and has been triggered for the Salt Palace Bra, Vanel Hall, and the Utah Museum of Culture and Arts. Um, it's just clarifying that that is not municipal funds. Those are funds that go to the county pursuant to what they're collecting. Thank You.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Said the bill makes no policy changes and is intended to make the code easier to follow and change later.
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No. I appreciate the, uh, the questions here. The intent of this is not to make any policy changes, but if you like these things, then it's easier to follow. If you don't like these things, they're easier to follow and make, you know, any changes thereafter. It's just a good cleanup.
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Explains that S.B. 71 makes technical clarifications to how felony evidence is retained and disposed of, agreed to by stakeholders after a two-year study.
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after a lengthy two year study on uh, how we go through and retain, dispose of and return evidence, uh, to the rightful owners. After, uh, nearly two years of doing that, there are some tweaks that need to be done on, on the retention disposition of, uh, felony, uh, evidence. This bill is that technical clarification worked on and agreed to by all the stakeholders.
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Moves to uncircle second substitute S.B. 151, Public Safety funding amendments.
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Thank you. Motion to circle second substitute Senate bill 1 51 Public Safety funding amendments.
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Moves to delete the title embodied in second substitute S.B. 151 and replace it with third substitute S.B. 151, and speaks to that amendment.
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Thank you. And move to deleting title embodies second substitute Senate Bill 1 51 and replace with third substitute Senate Bill 1 51. Speak to that amendment that,
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Says the substitute should match the original and asks whether to present the bill or circle it until a fiscal note is available.
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Therefore, yeah, there's no fiscal note on it's, it should be the same, but, uh, do you want me to present it and circle or just circle it till we get the fight? Fiscal note,
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Says the bill does three things, including covering a small group of airplanes missed when registration fees were updated last year.
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Thank you. This bill, uh, does three things. Uh, we've missed a certain small group of airplanes. When we updated the registration fees last year,
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Presents the bill, which updates airport fees, sets requirements for handling lost property at airports, and clarifies privacy rules for law enforcement drone use.
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that includes those, that small group of, uh, airplanes that, uh, the fees should have been updated. The second thing is, is that there's a request from Salt Lake City and other airports to update how lost property or misplaced property at the airports are handled. This bill goes through and, and clarifies that the airports need to, uh, make their best efforts to identify and return that property, post it on the website, and do some active things. And then the other things that clarifies one thing about, uh, law enforcement use of drones, uh, to make sure that we have the right privacy established. And that's what the bill does.
S.B. 194 Election Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Moves to delete the title of first substitute S.B. 123 and replace it with second substitute S.B. 123.
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to deleting title embody Senate Bill 1 23 and replace with second substitute Senate bill 1 23
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Explains that one section needed to be repealed was left out of the original bill and the substitute adds that repeal.
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Yeah, there was a, uh, uh, one, there was one section that needed to be repealed that was not included in the bill and the substitute, uh, brings in that repeal.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Explains the bill clarifies the cybersecurity board membership, adds the Department of Environmental Quality and UETN, and creates a restricted account for funds the Legislature may appropriate for cybersecurity, as a coordinating bill because federal funds are being lost.
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This bill goes through and clarifies who's on the cybersecurity board adds, uh, department of Environmental Quality and the, uh, UETN, and then creates a restricted account for funds that the legislature may appropriate for cybersecurity. And it's a coordinating bill because we're losing federal funds and we need to make sure this is a state program.
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Thanked the committee and introduced the resolution recognizing the 250th anniversary and the contributions of Irish and Irish-American immigrants.
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Thank you. I'm glad somebody noticed. Thank you, Senator Vickers. It's good to be with you. Um, we're doing the 250th anniversary of the United States, um, and one of the things that, uh, we wanted to highlight is what the different, uh, uh, immigrant groups brought to the, uh, country, um, and its heritage. This resolution does, uh, three things. It goes from talks about
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Commented briefly on a microphone that had not been turned on.
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They're old? Oh, Yeah. I had mine on, but you didn't, So we should have thrown something at me.
S.J.R. 13 Joint Resolution Honoring Irish and Irish-American Contributions to the Founding of the United States · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Described the resolution's historical references, including Irish signers of the Declaration and printing in Ulster, and its requests to Ireland for a consulate in Utah and to the governor's office for a trade commission.
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Okay. So we're on recognizing the 250th anniversary of the found of the United States, and part of that is, uh, there's a number of groups that we're recognizing for their great contribution. It's been my, my honor to go through and, and work with, uh, the country, the Republic of Ireland, and, uh, uh, CO and Northern Ireland as well over the last number of years as, uh, we recognize and enhanced trade relationships. And that it's interesting to note that, uh, there are eight signers of the declaration who were, uh, born in Ireland, or their parents were, uh, were Irish. Uh, there's a number of people who worked in, uh, general Washington's, uh, army that were his …
S.B. 141 Child Welfare Amendments · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Presents S.B. 141 as an annual cleanup bill that clarifies juvenile court procedures, allows DCFS to share certain information with professional licensing, expands the list of relatives by rule, and sets a notice process for DCFS filings.
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Thank you, appreciate, uh, being here. So, Senate Bill 1 41 is the, uh, um, what I call the annual cleanup bill. I meet with, uh, DCFS, guardian Ad Litem, attorney General, a lot of stakeholders, the, uh, parental defense advocates. And I say, what's working, what's not, what do we need to tweak? And this is a cleanup build. Um, with them, it, uh, clarifies the, uh, procedures to improve, uh, safety, transparency and, and timeliness in juvenile court cases, uh, under certain circumstances allows DCFS to share information with, uh, professional licensing. Um, and I appreciate, uh, representative Roxie's, uh, question, uh, down the lines. 1 55 through 1 64, where we take out brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepparent, first …
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Explains that S.B. 71 updates the evidence retention and disposition process from S.B. 76 (2024), adding biological evidence retention items and making the process clearer and faster for returning evidence to the parties.
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and had a two year long discussion of evidence re retention disposition, which resulted in Senate Bill 76 from the 2024 session. Um, after a year and a half of that being in place, there's a couple of tweaks that all the parties came together and said they needed to update some code section and they wanted to go through and improve the process and can improve the communications. They added, uh, biological evidence of, uh, retention for additional items, uh, reorganized things and then added some stuff that everybody said would make the retention disposition of evidence more clear and accelerated for returning that to the, uh, parties with whom it was taken.
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Explains that excess fire insurance premium tax revenue would fund UHP troopers, with language aligned to a related House bill.
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Yes, there's uh, there's some excess money in the, uh, in the fire premium, uh, in fire insurance, premium tax. Uh, this coordinates with the bill that, uh, the Senate or the House Majority Leader is doing, where he goes through and establishes the fund trust. This bill goes through and funds UHP troopers with the excess money that's in there and we're making sure that the language is the same, so there's no confusion on what is happening with that excess insurance. Premium tax. Okay.
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Says the bill appropriates $2 million from the transportation investment fund and $3 million in excess insurance premium tax revenue for troopers, funding 25 of about 36 missing positions without affecting the general fund.
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Just basically what this does is it, there's, uh, an appropriation, uh, out of the transportation investment fund, $2 million for troopers and then 3 million out of the excess revenues out of the insurance premium tax. We're short about 36 troopers. This bill will go through and fund 25 of those and it does not affect the, uh, the general fund from what I've been told.
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Says he checked with URS and stakeholders, that no opposition has been heard, and that the 110% firefighter retirement funding and a $5 million annual balance will be maintained.
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Yeah, I've checked with the URS and various stakeholders have not heard any opposition to the bill and that the 110%, uh, funding of the firefighters, uh, retirement fund will still be maintained and this will still leave a balance of $5 million in that fund ongoing annually. So I think it's taken care of.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Explains that the bill clarifies procedures for lost property at airports and adds a group of airplanes to the registration fee requirements.
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Thank you. Um, this bill simply goes through and, uh, clarifies the operate. What it, what it really does is there, when there's lost property on an airport, there's a couple different processes that are, um, followed. This establishes a clear, more concise compact process to get the property back to the people who left at the airport. And then there were a couple, there was a small group of airplanes that were left out of the registration bill that we ran last year. This bill puts them in so everything is uniform on the application for registration fees.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 25) · Feb 13, 2026
Moves that Senate Bill 172 be read a third time.
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Motion. Thank you. I'd move that Senate Bill 1 72. Be read for a third time.
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Presented S.C.R. 10, saying Utah is a leader in advanced air mobility, that the resolution recognizes the state's work, includes action items on leadership, coordination, advocacy, and stakeholder outreach, and keeps the topic on the state's priority list.
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Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Um, Utah is a nationally and almost internationally recognized leader, advanced air mobility. We have passed a number of, uh, bills and set up regulatory, uh, sandbox and put things in place that, so people who wanna do drones, air deliveries, air taxis, things like that, they can go through and do that in Utah. And we have a lot of people who are trying that. There's a couple people who are looking at doing, uh, air taxis. Delta's partnering with a couple companies now as well to look forward to that. The, uh, 47 G and couple of stakeholders came to me and said, we don't have a bill this year on …
S.C.R. 10 Concurrent Resolution Emphasizing Utah's Commitment to Advanced Air Mobility · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Gave a summation saying the committee should keep working with partners to advance these programs.
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It's a great motion and I'm glad that we can, uh, continue work, continue to work with all of our partners to advance the, these programs.
S.B. 247 Road Funding Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Sen. Harper withdrew the motion to favorably recommend the bill and moved to adopt the amendment.
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There is. I was just gonna actually ask, uh, Gabe, Lemme let me Change that. Withdraw your motion And let me move instead to adopt the amendment.
H.B. 82 Judgment Information Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Moved that the committee pass First Substitute H.B. 82 out favorably.
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I move that we pass out favorably. First substitute House Bill 82. Thank you very much. Motion for us to pass House bill. First substitute House bill 82.
S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Says employees are comfortable with several changes but have concerns about the PTO accrual hour reductions, and views the bill as a tradeoff.
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Thank you. I appreciate the work that's been done on this. Um, as I look through this, the comments that I'm getting back from my employees who, uh, work for the state, and that is they're quite comfortable with the changes in post postpartum, especially the tier two, uh, savings and things like that. Their question is, is goes back to the accrual schedules. Okay? If you ha, if you take a look at what we have right now, the sick leave and the annual leave, or more regulated, confined, you know, what you have there if to go to what you're doing with PTO is more flexible and requires more self-management. The hours is, are basically the main thing …
S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Asks Senator Fillmore whether the bill's significant fiscal impact will be funded.
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Thank you. So Senator Fillmore, this bill has a, uh, pretty good fiscal impact to it. Yes. Um, so your intent is to work and make sure if this bill passes, to get that funded? Yeah,
S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Says the bill includes significant Tier II benefits and that emails and calls he receives are split between support and opposition.
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And with that, if I may, Mr. Chair, to me, I've been working on tier two benefit improvement. You and I haven't always agreed, but this bill does have some significant tier two benefits, so I appreciate that. And what's interesting, the, uh, emails and the calls that I'm getting on this bill are nearly split half and half from those state employees that I'm getting calls from or emails in favor and against, which I think is very interesting. So thank you for your work on this. Thank you.
S.B. 251 Local Health Department and Department of Environmental Quality Coordination · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Sen. Harper moved to pass SB 251 out of committee to the floor with a favorable recommendation.
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I move that we pass out Senate Bill 2 51 to the floor with favorable recommendation.
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Moves to replace SB 228 with the first substitute, SB 228S01.
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Yes. Um, Mr. Char, I'd move to delete and title the Body Senate bill 2 28 and replace it with first substitute Senate bill 2 28.
S.B. 228 Community Reinvestment Agency Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Explains that the substitute consolidates reporting and coordination provisions into other bills and clarifies that a tax increment project area ends when its collection period ends, with remaining funds returned to the taxing entities.
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Yeah, we had a whole bunch of reporting and coordination between different taxing entities and the, um, go on that. Um, after a series of meetings, we identified the ability to go through and consolidate about five, if not six bills into one. And I took all of the stuff in my bill on the reporting that we're gonna run it in another bill, uh, contain some House and Senate bills. And what is left in this bill is the really core thing of what I wanted to do was to go and clarify that a redevelopment project area, C-R-A-U-R-A, um, EDA, whatever it is, once it hits its end of collection period, it is done. Right now we have …
S.B. 141 Child Welfare Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Presents S.B. 141, an annual cleanup bill on DCFS and guardian ad litem provisions covering information sharing, the definition of relative, foster parent rights timelines, court document notices, and shelter removal findings.
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Harper. Thank you. This is the annual cleanup bill with the DCFS and guardian ad litem. Everybody involved with it. It, uh, clarifies, uh, sharing of information by DCFS and limited circumstances. Uh, modifies the definition of relative, clarifies the timeline for certain rights for foster parents, uh, requires DCFS to notify all parties when they file, uh, documents with the court and then, uh, clarifies shelter removal and other findings within the bill.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper thanked Salt Lake City and other stakeholders, explained that the interim committee rolled about a dozen issues into one bill, and asked to move a substitute.
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Let's see. Okay, there we go. Thank you very much. I appreciate, uh, Canadian's indulgence on this. And first of all, I want to thank Salt Lake City and a number of other stakeholders who've had input on this bill. Um, just as a way of background, instead of running about a dozen or 13 different bills, the interim committee decided to roll all the different issues into one bill to have, uh, fewer bills that we have to deal with. And with that Mr. Chair, we have, I have a substitute Senate Bill 2 42 that I would like to move.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper described the substitute's changes, including 11-foot lane widths on tier one and two roads, keeping transit sales tax funds in the county of collection, city authority over parking, and a framework for a Salt Lake City–UDOT agreement.
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Um, this bill is in, uh, response to long discussions, again with, uh, Salt Lake City and a lot of other stakeholders, UHP, uh, business communities, udot, UTA, uh, several different counties to put everything in there. Um, I want to go through and clarify the differences between, uh, 2 42 and the, and the substitute. Um, and I didn't. Anyway, uh, basically it goes through and, um, the discussion, it, it implements more than a dozen additional changes, uh, per the request of Salt Lake City clarifies that road width, uh, only re apply to tier one and two roads, and it removes 12 feet and inserts. 11 feet clarifies. Tier three and four roads are managed by Salt …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper moved to replace S.B. 242 with the first substitute.
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Yes, I do. Delete and title and body sent Bill 2 42 and replace it with first substitute Senate bill 2 42.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper outlined the bill's other provisions, including repeal of last year's S.B. 195, and said it is not a state takeover of city roads, does not require removal of improvements, and was shared with Salt Lake City before going public.
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Thank you. Now, a couple other things to the bill, if I may, in matter of, of, uh, the presentation. Um, it, this goes through and clarifies provisions on land transfers. Um, talks about regionally select significant roads in Salt Lake. Um, creates definition of highway reduction strategy. The definition is, is what I believe Salt Lake City has requested, um, requires Salt Lake City to look at any potential negative IMP impacts of, of roadway improvements and make mitigation, if any, are found, uh, create, uh, directs the, uh, or describes the UDOT Director's authority to respond to national DI disasters. Uh, updates r uh, charges for larger vehicles clarifies that B and C road funds can be used …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper said that at stakeholders' request the 0.1 portion of the county transit tax will stay in the county that imposed it.
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Oh, on the, on the T TT F? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. What it does is if you have, for example, Salt Lake County and Utah County have imposed the fifth fifth, and right now the way it's structured is, is that 0.1 of that, uh, second quarter goes into the TTF after discussion with stakeholders, they wanted, since they imposed it in the county, they wanted to keep the money in the county to handle transit needs within their respective counties. It will stay in the county. It
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper said the bill sets up a framework for Salt Lake City and UDOT to work together on certain roads.
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Uh, excellent question. It sets up the framework upon which Salt Lake City and Udot will operate and discuss things going together on certain roads in Salt Lake City. So all
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper said nothing requires bike lanes to be removed and that the city could work with UDOT to expand them.
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Thank you. There's nothing in here that requires those bike lanes to be removed. Matter of fact, I think now that, uh, the study's been done and things of that nature, Salt Lake City can work with Udot to potentially expand the bike lanes.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper noted that Salt Lake City had asked to make a statement.
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And, and Mr. Chair, Salt Lake City has asked to make a statement as well.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper asked whether the committee was ready for a motion or had questions.
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Thank you. You, are you ready for a motion or where are we? Or do you want any questions?
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper said the bill establishes a framework under which Salt Lake City and UDOT jointly review tier one roads for conformance with statewide programs.
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Correct. Uh, Salt Lake City, like every city gets, uh, b and C road funds. There's, uh, been instances also where we have done special allocations, the request of City for, for the Roads and, and Transit Pro projects. But yeah, this is, I mean, one of the, one of the people said, well, we want some technical changes to the bill. That's not the intent of this bill. It's to establish a framework. And then Udot and the Salt Lake and Salt Lake City work together on implementing it. Salt Lake City puts everything in place and reviews that on the tier one roads with, uh, udot, make sure that it is in conformance with a statewide, you know, …
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper said no bill is final until signed and the dialogue will continue.
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I don't think you have Bill is ever final bill until it's signed by the governor. Yeah. There's, there's things that, uh, you know, have been brought up here and other, other information I have. We'll continue the dialogue.
S.B. 242 Transportation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Harper moved to pass the first substitute favorably, thanked the city and public, and said the bill supports multiple transportation modes and does not widen or add lanes.
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Thank you. And move that we pass out first substitute Senate Bill 2 42, the floor with favorable recommendation. And if I can speak to that, you can. Okay. Thank you. I just, first of all, I wanna thank Salt Lake City for the Loa many, many months of dialogue and productive dialogue that we've had. I appreciate everybody who's come here to speak. I've taken a note from everybody and all their names, and I'll be reviewing that as, as well as to what we can do. This will be an ongoing conversation. People know that I and everybody in the legislator have a passion for safety. I believe this bill supports multim multiple transportation. Uh, this doesn't do …
S.B. 221 Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Sponsor describes SB 221 as a cleanup of housing incentive programs, covering a substitute bill, consolidating adjacent transit stations into one zone, clarifying acreage and affordable housing options, adding fourth class cities, and clarifying plan adoption and tax increment triggers.
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Thank you. Uh, this is a bill that, uh, is a cleanup from, uh, what we've learned with these, uh, housing incentive programs, HGRZ, fs, CZs Hops, uh, what it does. And there is a substitute that after the bill came out, there's a lot of good commentary that came. This basically goes through updates, provisions for the projects, clarifying, uh, housing, affordable housing options, clarifying if there's an amendment to the, uh, uh, to the project theory that has to go back through the, the committee goes through and clarifies if you have a couple, uh, transit stations next to each other, you can go through and consolidate those into a single HTRZ. Um, and that clarifies the boun …
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Describes S.B. 185 as a cleanup bill that adds parental representation and defense programs and clarifies duties.
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support pre uh, parental representation, attorney support, INGEN parental defense, and a adminis existing, uh, interdisciplinary programs. There just need to be a clarification as to the duties. And this is a cleanup.
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Asks what 'removable container' in line 799 of the bill means.
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On line 7 99, it says, within a removable container, can you describe what, what that re removal Senator Cullimore would be?
S.B. 49 Natural Organic Reduction Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Confirms that the bill does not intend for remains to decompose into the soil and that the soil is meant to be removable.
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Senator Harper. Yeah, Juab, just to comment on that. So that means it's something you could remove. Some people said they wanted to have the remains there that would naturally decompose into the soil. You are not intending that to be the case. Correct.
S.B. 137 Homeless Services Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Presents Second Substitute S.B. 141, Child Welfare Amendments, which aims for more stable placements, better informed families, and stronger child protection in dealing with DCFS.
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Thank you Mr. Thank you Mr. President. Uh, this bill, um, aims to create more stable placements, better informed families, and stronger protection for children in dealing with the DCFS and it's related organizations. Um, we've gotten to agreement on the provisions
S.B. 141 Child Welfare Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Moves to pass second substitute S.B. 141 for a third reading.
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Thank you. And move it. Second substitute Senate Bill 1 41. Be read for a third time.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 18) · Feb 6, 2026
Says the bill makes no policy change; it moves housing program sections of the code under the governor's new office and consolidates definitions for clarity.
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There's no policy change in it. The governor made the decision to move all housing programs under goo. So while uh, with that decision, we took, uh, sections of the code dealing with the, uh, housing, HT hts, fiz hops, ccs, ts, whatever it may be. Put 'em in an in goyo no change. Put all the definitions together so it's clear to follow and clear to administer. That's what the bill does.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 18) · Feb 6, 2026
Spoke on the bill. · speaker not certain
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I'm gonna go to you for a motion. Thank I'd move that Senate Bill 39 passed.
S.B. 73 Online Age Verification Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Moved to pass first substitute SB 73 as amended out favorably.
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Thank you. I'd like to move that we pass out favorably first substitute Senate Bill 73 as amended.
S.B. 238 Property Tax Adjustments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper moved to pass S.B. 238 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
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Thank you. I move that we pass out, uh, Senate Bill 2 38 to the floor with a favorable recommendation.
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper presented SB 237, which directs the Department of Public Safety and the Tax Commission to study consolidating the driver license and motor vehicle divisions and report to the interim committee by November 30.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, over the last several years, we've been taking a look at, um, ways to go through improve the efficiency, the effectiveness, and the, the cost management of, uh, services that we provide to the public. Um, couple years ago there was a discussion as to should driver's license and motor vehicle divisions be consolidated? I understand that, uh, the executive branch started to look at that and, uh, with other things that was put to the wayside. So with that, I think it's time to go through and take a look at that, that, uh, that we, uh, direct the Department of Public Safety and Tax Commission and Study, whether the driver's licensing motor vehicle …
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper explained that the proposed amendment would add the Revenue and Taxation interim committee alongside the Transportation Interim Committee, because the driver license division has historically sat in transportation.
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We're, we're building a bridge between, uh, two, you know, worlds, uh, the driver's license division, uh, which has typically been in transportation and the tax commission. So, so just having both of those would be helpful. Your,
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper said he was fine with the amendment and was curious how it would work out. · speaker not certain
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I'm fine with that. Yeah, I'm curious. So it'd be interesting to see how that works out as well, if we decide to make that, that'd helpful.
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper agreed to the amendment and said a written amendment would be prepared to be taken up later.
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I'm great with that. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, we'll, we'll do that later. Uh, we can come up with a, a written amendment and do that, so.
S.B. 237 Driver License Division and Motor Vehicle Division Consolidation Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Sen. Harper moved to pass SB 237 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
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Okay. Then on move that Senate Bill 2 37, uh, pass out with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks whether the panel judges will be selected at random and whether there are special qualifications.
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I have a couple questions. So this'll be a rotating panel of judges selected at random from any of our districts. Okay? That's correct. Are there special qualifications or is just random selection.
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks why the bill names only the attorney general, governor, and legislature rather than other constitutional officers.
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Okay. Thank you. And then you specifically called out the attorney, general governor and the legislature. Is there a reason why not the other constitutional officers?
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks why the fiscal note cost for judges and clerks is higher than the proposed use of existing staff.
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Okay. And one more question. Um, you're talking about using existing judges, yet your fiscal note says the cost for three, judge ships, two assistant, two law clerks. Why are not be using existing staff or maybe just somebody, you know, one or two people in, in the current court, court system?
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks whether the bill would send tax court cases with constitutional questions to the three-judge panel.
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I need clarification on this. We have things like tax court, drug courts, veterans courts that are already existing, um, specifically with the tax court. Sometimes there, as I understand it, there are cases that go to the, uh, to the tax course that, that are appealed there, that may quote unquote have constitutional questions with them. Would this bill require that these cases go to the, to this three appeals, or would it follow the normal process to the tax court? Thank you
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Says the tax appeals process works well and he would not want it changed, though the legislature could still intervene.
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Okay. Yeah. 'cause tax, the way that's process is working with the tax commission, the appeals, and the tax court, I think's working well. I would, I would want not want that process to be, you know, changed track with this. Uh, and now it doesn't preclude the legislature, for example, for intervening and removing it to a panel court in those cases. But that would be something that would be done by the bodies at the time if there was a constitutional challenge,
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Says he will vote for the bill coming out of committee but opposes a one-way process that only benefits the state and wants it fixed before the floor.
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Yeah, I will vote for it coming outta committee, but I will not vote for it on the floor with a one-way swinging, and I'll speak strongly against it. Uh, I feel like at some point we need to get that right. Um, I, I'm not in favor of a process that only gives the 800 pound gorilla as, uh, as the, uh, lady spoke. I apologize. I forget her name, and I, I'm insulted by myself for forgetting it, but, okay. Uh, well, there you go. Uh, uh, I was gonna say Barrister Smith, and that just seemed felt, you know, there you go. Uh, but I, I, I am, I think she makes a more than fair point …
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Thanks the sponsor for being willing to consider the issue. · speaker not certain
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So, um, so with that, um, I appreciate, uh, you being willing to consider that with the bar and with everyone else.
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Says the same judges are often assigned to constitutional cases in the third district and supports maintaining checks and balances and faster resolution of issues.
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So, um, with that, uh, you know, it's interesting, uh, you know, as I've been involved in this process for, I don't know, uh, 13, 14 years now, and been a member of the bar for longer, uh, the, the concern for me as I've watched over the years is it's always amazing how the same judges get assigned to these constitution constitutionality issues in the third district. And it then becomes this, you know, uh, you know, I don't know, this weird thing of downtown versus, uh, versus the state. And it just feels like in an overly political way, the court gets insulated by their robes and their courtrooms and its respect. And I take nothing away from …
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Says he wants to see the one-way issue addressed and is not ready to call the bill perfect.
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Some of i, specifically the item that you talked about, um, I would like to see that, so I'm not quite ready to, to say this is a good, you know, perfect Bill. Yeah, I'd like to see if there's any other tweaks.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Presents S.B. 122, which clarifies the HOA ombudsman's duties on maintaining, releasing, sharing, and assisting people with questions, and clarifies one fee.
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This bill goes through and clarifies the, uh, some of the duties, the, uh, HOA ombudsman on how they, uh, maintain, release, share, and assist, uh, people in HOA associations who have questions. It's a good transparency Bill and it also, uh, clarifies one fee.
H.B. 50 Child Protection Ombudsman Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Presents H.B. 50, which clarifies that parents may seek help from the Child Protection Ombudsman, addresses how information collected by the Ombudsman is shared with the legislative oversight panel for child welfare, and requires posting parental rights on the DHS website.
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Thank you. This bill goes through and, and clarifies that uh, parents may seek and receive help from the Child Protection Ombudsman. The, uh, information, uh, collected, um, any negative or positive can go from the Ombudsman, can go to legislative oversight panel for child welfare and requires posting parental rights on DHS Homes website. That's what the bill does.
H.B. 11 Dyed Diesel Fuel Search Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Presents the bill, which clarifies when dyed diesel fuel inspections can occur, sets standards for them, and allows them to continue, especially at ports of entry.
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Thank you. There's, there are code, uh, current codes requiring existing fuel lies line or fuel checks for dyed diesel. Um, this bill goes through and clarifies when those, uh, fuel inspections can happen and set standards while allowing those to continue on, especially at the ports of entry. Thank you for the presentation discussion.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Explains that the amendment removes an added school zone provision and corrects a cross reference.
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This entire bill is a reification, but during the interim we decided to have one clarification and there was some, uh, concern with that. So I'm just removing the addition of, uh, school zones and then, uh, clarify or correcting cross reference.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Says the bill consolidates several investment zone provisions from across the code into one section with their own definitions, with no policy changes.
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Thank you. Over the last number of years, the state has been very diligent in dealing with, uh, housing and CR and, uh, maximize maximizing investment into, uh, our state, uh, transportation transit system. This, you may call it the alphabet soup bill. So this goes through and takes CCRZ, CCRZ and a convention center, HTRZ, FHIZ, hops, fizz, everybody else TRZ and Senator. Say that again A little faster. Yeah. What we're doing here is we're just taking all these disparate section of codes, putting them under goo and having them in one place with their own definitions and their own part. So it's much easier to follow and comply with. There's no policy changes. It's a recon.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Says the bill makes no changes; the amendment places provisions now under workforce, county and city code into a single section with their own definitions, with no new policy.
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Yes, I will Go ahead to the question. Are you creating a new district? There are no changes in this bill. Now with the amendment, all we are doing is you need to understand we had part of these undergo part of these under workforce surfaces, part of 'em under the county section of code, some within the city, city section of the code. So we're just putting those all into a single section of the code with their own definitions. There is no new policy. It is the existing stuff, but much more transparent and easier to follow, easier to Read in the statute. Senator
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Summarizes the bill as a cleanup that makes the code easier to follow, and moves that SB 39 as amended be read a third time.
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You. I brief. I appreciate everybody's review of this. It's important that we get things correct and cleaned up, so it's much easier if you like these things. It's much easier to follow if you don't like them. It's much easier to follow. So with that, Mr. President, I move that Senate bill 39 as amended Be read for a third time. Thank
H.B. 11 Dyed Diesel Fuel Search Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Presents House Bill 11, which clarifies when dyed diesel fuel inspections, including tank dips, may occur and what consent or probable cause is required, and notes there has been no opposition.
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Thank you Mr. President. This bill clarifies when ex uh, dyed diesel, uh, clarifies dyed diesel fuel, uh, inspection laws when a tank dip may or may not occur. There's been some questions, uh, some people saying that maybe the die dip is just being done because you're running on diesel. This clarifies the rules for that and the consent that needs to happen or the probable cause must exist. So it's just clarifying that and I think it's, uh, there's been no opposition to this bill.
H.B. 11 Dyed Diesel Fuel Search Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Moves that House Bill 11 be read a third time.
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Okay. I'll move that house. Bill, bill 11, be read for a third time. Thank
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Presents the bill as clarifying what information the HOA Ombudsman's office collects and how it is made transparent and available, adding posting and notification requirements for how requests are shared.
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Thank you. Um, we created a couple years or last year the, uh, office of um, o of uh, HO Ombudsman. Uh, they've had, uh, nearly a year to operate. This bill goes through and clarifies the, uh, information that they collect and how they make it transparent and more available. And, uh, basically it's a, it is a transparency and a posting and a notification bill of how they operate and how they share the information with requesters.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Moves that S.B. 122 be read a third time.
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Yes, I'd move that. Uh, Senate Bill 1 22. Be read for a third time.
S.B. 185 Child Welfare Parental Representation Program Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 3, 2026
Presented SB 185, which lets current staff operate the child welfare parental representation program while it is contracted out, and bases the program budget on prior expenses rather than estimates.
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Thank you. Um, we've had for a number of years, the, uh, office of, uh, child welfare parental representation. The program there administered under, uh, the, uh, under the IDC. And what this bill is, it, it goes through and after running through things currently, we, the program has, you know, is required to contract this. Now with the staff being trained and everything, it allows the, uh, the current staff to operate the program, um, and administer the, uh, the, the, uh, uh, the support and everything that is needed. And it clarifies. The other thing that it does is that, um, instead of, uh, preparing a budget of, of estimated it actually based on the priors expenses. So …
S.B. 53 Public Land Management Advisory Board Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Asks what value the two added positions bring that is not already on the existing board.
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Um, the addition of these two, uh, positions, what value and benefit to the add to this that is not already on the existing committee? Senator Kwan? Thank you, Mr.
S.B. 223 Sales and Use Tax Exemptions Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asked whether the fiscal note had been updated and referred to the fiscal note on a prior 2025 bill. · speaker not certain
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Do you have a updated fiscal note on this bill? I was just looking, did you see that? I apologize. Uh, look up, um, Senate Bill three 11 from 2025. Did you have it? Okay. Yeah. 2.7 million. It's in the last, so I, I don't expect to see it changing.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Presents SB 206 and the substitute, which replaces the Multi-County Appraisal Trust with a fund manager, clarifies Tax Commission Division of Finance oversight of the statewide property tax system, and says day-to-day operations will stay the same.
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Thank you. I'd move to DeLeT and Title and Body Senate bill 2 0 6 and replace with first substitute Senate Bill 2 0 6. Um, maybe I can just do this has some technical cleanups to what we're doing. Um, the underlying purpose of this is to clarify how the administration of Utah statewide Property Set tax system is handled. Um, it transfers the responsibilities of multi-county appraisal trust to designated fund manager and clarifies Utah State Tax Commission Division of Finance's role in own in oversight. As you know, uh, the MCAT currently, uh, handles the statewide property tax system known as Cam or Puma, depending on who you talk to for valuation property. There's a designated, uh, …
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says the substitute replaces the amendment, so the amendment is not needed.
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The, the, the sub replaces the amendment. Okay. Because more things came in of technical cleanups, we do not need to do the amendment.
S.B. 206 Tax Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend the first substitute of SB 206 to pass out of committee.
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Thank you and move that we, uh, favorably recommend pass out for substitute Senate bill to zero six.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks whether the bill's change to the state and local tax add-back means that itemizers with state and local taxes above the threshold cannot claim that amount.
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Thank you. I think you, uh, hit the line numbers. I was going to address 1877 where you change the language in there, regardless this of whether the claimant is allowed and item itemized. Then you change the 10,000 to the state. So what you're really doing there is saying if you itemize and you have 20,000 in state and local taxes, you don't get to claim that 'cause you claimed it on the federal. Is that Correct? You'd
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks whether the fiscal note shows a positive $4 million rather than a negative amount.
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Okay. Is that, is that showing that it's a positive 4 million, not a negative on
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks the commissioner to confirm whether the change means the state gains money.
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Okay. Thank you. I'm trying to unpack what he just said. Commissioner Valentine, are we saying that it's a positive fiscal note to do it this way? In other words, the state makes money.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says he has reviewed the fiscal note and it makes more sense now.
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Okay. I I see that. I Juab I had pulled the fiscal note up, so if that makes more sense to me now.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Summarizes that the difference is between the $10,000 and $40,000 ceilings.
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I as if I mis summarize, it's all the difference in having the $10,000 ceiling versus the $40,000 ceiling. That's
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks about the short-term rental tangible personal property issue and looks for the relevant section of the bill.
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Okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh, can you talk to me, uh, this is an issue I'd forgotten about during the, uh, during the, um, uh, the interim, but the short term rental tangible personal property issue. Um, trying to find it again. I found it once and Then you gimme a line number that'll help me. Yeah, so I was trying to find the line again. Hang on just a second. I think we're in 38. See, I'm in, we're in the 38 21. I'm just looking through, uh, short term rentals. That's the short term rental section here. I think it's 34 88.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks whether the change treats tangible personal property as bundled with the rental asset for sales tax purposes.
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Transfer of possession or control of real property, tangible personal property or product transferred electronically for. So really what you are, really what this does, if I, I'm just reminding myself from interim, really what this does is it says that the tangible personal property is coupled with the asset for the purposes of taxation, such that their effort to try and exclude it from that saying it wasn't subject to taxation because of other tangible personal property limitations. They're saying you can't tax those components of it. Is that correct? That
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks how the tangible personal property affects valuation for property tax purposes.
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When did short term rental, you're running the whole thing. But on the short term rental side, how does that, how does that tangible personal property, I'm just trying to figure out how it figures into the valuation for, for per, for property. 'cause it's the value of the entire asset that is valued, not necessarily, not necessarily the individual pieces.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says he now understands the loophole and thanks the commissioner.
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I see what you're, I now I understand the loophole Okay. Based on what sections in Yep. Nope, makes a ton of sense. Okay. That makes more sense than it did before. I was trying to figure out how it fit into the property tax realm and that didn't make sense how it would cut their value at all. So yeah, That'll be conflating the issue. Yep, exactly. Thank you. Okay. Uh, thank you very much.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moves to pass HB 77 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
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Thank you. I believe that we pass out house bill 77 with a favorable recommendation. If I could speak to that.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says the state and local tax change is effectively a tax increase unless offset, and asks the sponsor whether he will make the motion.
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after going through things half a dozen times up here again, what that change on the state and local tax is actually doing and, and how you're addressing it. We could undo that and, and go through and potentially reduce that amount, but in reality it's, it's a tax increase unless we go through and offset It. Yeah. Yep. So, um, I, uh, it, it, I have a question for the sponsor related to that and, um, uh, do you wanna make a motion to pass it out?
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks whether the state and local tax provision could be moved to another bill so that the funding issue does not hold up the other policies in HB 77.
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We, uh, representative, we, because of all the other issues that are in the bill, are kind of in the must pass cleanup area. If we don't get this funded or if there's a funding issue, are we in a situation where we would prefer to take this bill, take this issue, the salt issue and put it in, uh, another bill that also requires funding in case we run into problems related to the funding? 'cause I, this bill represents really 10, maybe, maybe 11 or 12 different bills. Um, you know, that, uh, policy concepts and to hold it up for the fiscal note process over this one issue might not be our, our, this might not be …
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says his concern is avoiding a fiscal note dispute over this one issue that could defeat the other policies in the bill.
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Yeah. So that's my, I guess that's my, my concern or, or that kind of thing, is just making sure we don't get caught up on the fiscal note on this issue. If for some reason, just knowing it's tight budget year, et cetera, that we don't get caught up over that to kill the other policies that are in it.
H.B. 77 Tax Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Sums up that the discussion was good and the bill contains a lot of common sense housekeeping provisions.
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Um, I, I think that we've had a good discussion about that. A lot of work's gone into this. A lot of just kind of common sense housekeeping, uh, provisions. Okay.
S.B. 35 Amendments to Interdisciplinary Parental Representation Pilot Program · House Judiciary Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Presented SB 35, which extends the program's sunset to 2031 and bars DCFS employees from contracting or providing compensated services to the program for at least a year after separation.
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You. This was an interim committee bill that was, uh, discussed. Um, it does two things. It extends out the, uh, Sunset to, uh, until 2031. And then it clarifies that in, uh, an employee person employed by DCFS may not contract with or others provide compensated services to this program. And for at least a year after their separation, there were some concerns that people may take this and, and leave DCFS when we need them there. Shortest presentation ever. You're welcome.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper described SB 197, which would repeal UTA's current structure, create a new organization with an executive director and seven transit commissioners, and repeal the local advisory council.
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Ahead. Thank you very much. Transportation funding and governance amendments is the result of a, uh, interim study, well, not an interim study. A, a project that, uh, Representative Christofferson and I did starting back in June where we met with stakeholders, evaluated the administration and the management of of UTA. We, again, took a look at what's happening in other, uh, transit districts. We looked at studies from, uh, Denver and other stakeholders that looked at the current governance of of UTA. As you know, uh, Representative Christofferson and I and Speaker Schultz have sponsored champion legislation in the past to support the success of transit. State level investments in transit are at an all time high, and you'll …
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper explained that the commission would set policy and approve the budget while the executive director runs day-to-day operations, patterned after UDOT.
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Correct. One executive director and a and they have a transportation commission. This would be a transit commission meets monthly, has a set slate of duties that they, that they deal with. All the other day-to-day opera operations are housed within the executive director, and he runs the day-to-day, they set the policy and approve the budget.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper responded that stakeholders disagree on excluding elected officials, that discussions are ongoing, and that elected officials may bring conflicts of interest.
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Okay. I've got some other people who do the appointments or that feel like that would be a good thing. Other people feel like we should be allowing everybody. There is a, if you put somebody on that's an elected official, they've got some background, they've got some experience, but they also have a constituency. And does that create a conflict? Yes or no? If you have people who are, um, you know, in the private sector with the different expertise levels that are called down on the bill, is that better? And so that's, I there was a call and discussion, actually lots of calls and discussions over the last couple weeks on how it would be, and we …
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper said Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Salt Lake, and Utah counties would make nominations and that stakeholders would be consulted to represent the whole transit district.
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If you look going down on starting line 3 77 Davis Weber and the Box Elder County area will make nominations. Salt Lake County will make a nomination or make nominations in Utah County. So you do have those geographic areas represented. And also, if you take a look at line 3 72 and 3 74, the, the, the President Senate and the speakers shall in consultation with public transit stakeholders, that needs to be stakeholders on 3 72 within the public transit district. So they have to go and work with all the stakeholders to get names. So the intent is not to go through and pack it from one county, but to have representation throughout the transit district.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper moved to pass SB 197 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
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Okay, I'll move that We pass out Senate bill 1 97 with a favorable recommendation Discussion to that motion.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Harper summarized that the bill replaces a three-member board and a nine-member advisory council with a single director and a seven-member commission, reducing the number of members.
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If, if you take a look at the, at the similar boards we had 15 years ago, we Uintah nine on the local advisory council, along with the three member board. Three member board is being replaced by a single individual. And then the nine member advisory, uh, committee is being replaced by seven member commission. So we are shrink, shrinking things down. The commission, I believe, has a set slate of tasks that they have to do, but the day-to-day operation is with a single individual.
S.B. 69 School Device Revisions · Senate floor debate (day 11) · Jan 30, 2026
Says a constituent's dissertation found cell phones highly detrimental in classrooms, and supports the limits in the bill as a step forward.
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Thank you very much. Uh, the question was asked, is there research on this? Um, I was able to talk to one of my constituents who had recently finished her dissertation on cell phones and the impact on students and student performance. Uh, her research and, and her classes and, and the university in this program all came back with the cell phones are highly de detrimental in the classroom. She recommends that they are, they be out completely. And I think that this, it's a good move to go through and limit it the way that's drafted in this bill. She would go further, but, uh, I think this bill is a great, great step forward.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Presented SB 123, which creates a restricted account for cybersecurity support for K-12 and political subdivisions, directs a strategic plan, and adds members to the Cyber Center to replace expiring federal funding.
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Um, There you go. Okay. Over the last, uh, four years, we have had a, uh, grant from the federal government that goes through and, and has aided us in helping cities, counties, local, uh, taxing entities, service providers, um, and other groups, the support that they need to handle the cyber security tax, which, uh, continue to increase, unfortunately, year by year. Um, over the summer. We talked about the way to enhance that, but we also had the, the challenge now is, is that the federal funding has e has, uh, elapsed and we need to go through and replace that with state funding. So this bill does a couple things. It creates a fund that if we …
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Said there is a substitute bill with clarifying wording about membership.
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I have a substitute on this bill. Oh, yeah, I do have substitute on the bill. It was hiding behind the fiscal note. Yes. Um, the change on this was, uh, there was a, there's a couple clarifying words that were added in there, dealing with the membership.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Said he had already covered the substitute and that it contains only technical fixes to definitions.
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You? I, I spoke to that and the only other thing was a couple technical fixes and in the, in the definitional sections.
S.B. 123 Privacy and Cybersecurity Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Said the fiscal note reflects the cost of administering the program, and that a separate request for federal funds is planned while the restricted account would receive state funds through appropriations.
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Correct. That is the fiscal note represents the, um, cost to minister the program and, and the changes. I have a separate RFA along with Representative Alrich to ask for the federal funds. So we've created the restricted account with the hope that through our appropriations process, we can actually get the state funds that will need to, to replace the federal.
S.B. 22 Minor Driving Hours Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Presents SB 22, which lets stepparents and foster parents supervise a teen's driving hours and have those hours counted.
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2222. Thank you. Senator Bill 22 was an interim committee bill. Uh, it was brought to our attention that, uh, when there's a foster parent, when a child's, uh, in fo in d custody of DCFS or in foster care or stepparent, current code does not allow them to supervise the driving hours of a teenager. So this clarifies that they can supervise it and, uh, have those hours counted. Okay. Thank you for that concise presentation.
S.B. 22 Minor Driving Hours Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Points to the bill's age provisions and says it adds stepparents and foster parents to the definition of parent used in driving code.
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If, if you look on lines 85 through 88 of the bill, it already says, you know, the ages and that, but it clarifies what the definition of parent is. We have parent used in several places in the driving code, and it just says parent stepparent or foster parent. It just adds those two. Okay.
S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Explains that the Transportation Commission's structure, the executive director's duties, and regional boundaries were discussed in interim committee, noting UDOT's four regions have not changed since 1993 and questions about adding regions for growth in Southern Utah; the bill directs UDOT to review these issues with stakeholders and report back to the interim committee.
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During the, uh, interim committee, there was some discussion as to, um, the structure of, uh, the Transportation Commission, the duties of the executive director, and what the geographical boundaries of a region should be. Currently, right now in udot, we have four regions. Those have not changed since 1993. There's some discussion with, uh, all of the growth in Southern Utah and all the new roads. They're going to the parks and having a single region headquartered in, in St. George. And really nothing other than road maintenance on the east side of the state. Should we actually have six regions? Is that more expensive? Is that, uh, better for management? Uh, maintenance of all the roads? The, uh, …
S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Thanks the committee for its attention and says there will be further discussion over the interim.
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You. Appreciate your attention to this, and stay tuned. We'll have lots of discussion over the interim.
S.B. 65 Minimum Basic Tax Rate Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Asks the sponsor whether there is an updated fiscal note for the bill.
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Thank you. I've got a Couple questions. Okay. Senator Fillmore, you don't have an updated fiscal note on this bill, correct?
S.B. 65 Minimum Basic Tax Rate Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Follows up on the fiscal note and on public comment about education funding.
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Uh, I just kind of further to that question and to a public comment that we heard earlier,
S.B. 65 Minimum Basic Tax Rate Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Says the gas tax was his next question and that he has no further questions.
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That was my next question, so, alright. I'm done with questions. Thank you. Okay, thank you.
S.B. 116 Income Tax Rate Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Asks why the transportation fund was added to the state revenue measure, since other listed items are general fund.
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Senator Harper. Thank you. Uh, Senator Fillmore on line 97 of the substitute bill. Um, you've added in transportation fund. All the other items that are listed there, um, for state revenue are all general fund transportation fund is separate. Why did you add that in? Uh,
S.B. 116 Income Tax Rate Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Asks whether the bill's focus is on spending of tax revenue rather than on tax rates.
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So your, your purpose of this bill is to go through and if I understand it correctly, is to go through and not really de deal with tax rates. Your focus is on Levi spending of the tax revenues. Is that correct?
S.B. 116 Income Tax Rate Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Says he is still considering the transportation fund because it is constitutionally restricted to road purposes.
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Okay. And I, I appreciate that ex explanation. Um, I'm still chewing on the transportation fund because that's constitutionally restricted for road purposes, and
S.B. 116 Income Tax Rate Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Asks whether the target effectively changes the box the legislature works within for appropriations.
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And then on your target that goes through, and it basically reframes the, the box in which the legislature works on, on appropriations, saying that if some, you know, if we had a 5% in increase or 10% increase in revenue, we would automatically reduce that and have Less money to go through and potentially allocate.
S.B. 78 Property Tax Relief Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Said the bill addresses constituent calls about rising property taxes and that he likes the element that freezes taxes and defers growth.
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Thank you. Appreciate these comments. I think one of the benefits of this bill is addressing the calls that I get receive on a weekly basis. And sometimes when the notices come out multiple times during the day saying, can you stop, prevent me from paying more property taxes. Can you lock me in right now? Can you find a way this does, it goes and freezes the, the property tax that you're paying and defers the growth to a, you know, to a future payment that helps an enormous amount of people. And I, I like that element of the bill.
S.C.R. 8 Resolution Honoring the Utah Parent Teacher Association · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presented the resolution honoring the Utah PTA for its century of work supporting parents, children, and the educational community, citing his own past service in PTAs.
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Thank you, Senator. This bill is, is a resolution honoring the Utah Parent Teacher Association. The, uh, Utah Parent Teacher Association has now been going for a century. And this, uh, so this rec, this resolution goes through, recognizes the good work that, uh, that association does does in support of parents, children, and the educational community. I've had the honor over the years of, uh, working in, uh, elementary and middle school, um, PTAs and also serving on the council level in, in, uh, the grand, uh, district, PTA organization. It's my honor to go through and support them and recognize the good work that they do, and just to encourage parents, teachers, students, and the community to work …
S.C.R. 8 Resolution Honoring the Utah Parent Teacher Association · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Gave closing remarks thanking the organization and said he appreciated its support, and waived further comment.
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Nope, just good organization and I appreciate the support of them. Senator Kwan, I'll waive. All right.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presents S.B. 172 as a cleanup bill covering airplane registration rules and a new process for finding owners of property left at airports and disposing of it if owners do not respond.
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Thank you again. Um, Senator Winterton, um, this is, um, actually a cleanup bill. We've run a couple things in the past dealing with registration of, of airplanes. Uh, so one part of this bill is that it goes through and, uh, clarifies the registration is, is based on 90 days. With that the airplane is, is situated and, and operating with the state within one consecutive year, uh, clarifies, um, part 1, 35 planes. They must be registered in the state updates, statutory definition of airport and, uh, other technical things. The other main part of the bill, which was the thrust of this is Salt Lake City. Uh, international folks came to me and said, we've got property …
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Explains Amendment #1, which reinstates a removed definition and clarifies that the lost-property section applies to non-federally funded airports.
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There is a, an amendment to this bill and, uh, I'd like to move that it rein, it does two things. It reinstates a definition that should not have been removed, and it clarified a reference section, um, that this only applies to, uh, fed to non-federal funded airports in that section of the code. So that would be amendment number one.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Explains that the bill defines lost property terms and sets a shorter timeframe with more direction for airports to actively pursue owners.
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I am looking for that within the code. Yeah. If you look at, uh, starting on line four 13, it goes from, and defines, uh, not claimed misleaded money, all those type of things, lots of def definitions. And it says if an operator doesn't go through and able to find it, it puts in a, a shorter timeframe and also gives them more direction that they need to actively pursue that. And then we don't want stuff hanging around the airports for a year or two. It, it creates a much shorter process.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says airports must actively try to find owners for 30 days and must publish a public notice, similar to the state unclaimed property process.
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Okay. Well, they have to actively go through for 30 days and try to find the person after that. They have to, to put publicly, uh, they have to put a public notice out there, you know, kind of like our, uh, what is that? Our unclaimed property. Okay. So they go through a similar process to that, trying to reach out to everybody in order to get it to 'em. And then after all efforts fails, then they, then, then they have the other process.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Responds that the notice period is shorter than 30 days and offers to have the airport representative explain the timeframe.
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It's supposed, um, Uh, I, I'm just kind of like, um, I mean, some people go on vacation for longer than a month. I wish I was one of them. No, it's, it's, it's a shorter thing. Okay. It's like nine, nine days and then eight days if we, you know, that's what the airport requested. So that's the way I put it in. Okay. I do have Brady from the airport here. Who might You Wanna phone a friend up here? Yeah. Let's, let's phone a friend and have him walk through the timeframe to make sure that we're all clear on those. Thanks.
S.B. 172 Airport and Air Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says the attorney will explain the disposal process and that the answer is in the bill.
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Yeah, go on. I'll, I'll get our attorney up here to, to give you the, the low down on the process. Is there? Yeah, it's in there. It's in there. Oh, That's the wrong section.
S.B. 151 Public Safety Funding Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Moved to replace S.B. 151 with the first substitute, which adds an effective date, and described the bill's plan to fund about 19 to 20 additional troopers using about $5 million from insurance premium tax and transportation fund sources.
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Senate Bill 1 51 Public Safety Funding Amendments. Thank you. I'd move to late and title and Body Senate bill 1 51 and replaced with first substitute Senate Bill 1 51. All it does speak up first. All it does is add an effective date. Okay. Um, I had entertain a motion then to, uh, okay. Got a, a motion, uh, to delete title and body on first sub or on Senate bill 1 51 and replace it with first substitute 1 51. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. That is unanimous. So the first sub is in front of us. And now do you wanna speak to the whole Bill? Yes. To the, the …
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presented SB 71, which creates a formal process before police return or destroy evidence, clarifies retention of misdemeanor and biological evidence, and requires court approval before felony evidence is destroyed if prosecutors deny the request.
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Thank you. I I had to conclude my committee meeting quickly to come over to You're, You're faster than I am, so Thank you, Mr. Chair. Evidence retention amendments. Two years ago we had, uh, bill, Senate Bill 76 that passed. It was a result of a two year, uh, study of evidence retention disposition that was conducted by law enforcement, defense and prosecution attorneys and other stakeholders as to in what format and what should be retained and for how long. Um, after year and a half of running this, there were a couple tweaks and clarifications that were determined need to be made. Um, it really goes through and does a couple things. And I got chief, uh, …
S.B. 71 Evidence Retention Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Responded to public comment, saying the bill lengthens some retention periods and allows digital documentation of certain bulky drug and biological evidence.
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Yeah. Appreciate that. I appreciate the comments on, on, uh, you know, uh, retaining disposing of, of evidence. Uh, we did a careful review of that. And in most cases, we went longer than what most court cases and what, uh, code had in place in 2024. We lengthened that and we clarified some of the things that we had to deal with. Biological and chemical things. You don't need to go and keep five pounds of, of cocaine. You can keep a sample of it and document it digitally, things like that. That's what we cleaned up. I don't think any constitutional rights had been abrogated, but this one is more of a process and a cleanup after lessons …
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presents SB 25 as an annual cleanup bill with technical changes, including definitions, terminology, council membership, and retirement election and appeal procedures.
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Thank you. Uh, Senate Bill 25 is the, um, annual, uh, cleanup bill that is, uh, brought to the retirement and independent entities, uh, committee over the, uh, center Last interim. Um, what it is, is basically a bunch of cleanup items based on either court cases or rulings or appeals or things like that. Most lot commonly that comes in from changes in law, both federal and state. Um, there is nothing really substantive in here. It goes through and, and clarifies and modifies the definition of bonafide termination of employment. Standardizes certain terminology, uh, expands the retirement membership council by three members at the request of the, of the, uh, stakeholders in URS, uh, clarifies the Attorney General's …
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Explains that the council expansion adds stakeholders such as school board members and superintendents' representatives in an advisory role, at their request.
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Yeah. Uh, there are people in statute right now that are stakeholders where their organizations participate in URS. And it came to it, it was asked, why don't we have a school board member or somebody from the district or the, the, uh, the Superintendent's Association, why or not they on, on that board and it's advisory only. Uh, but they asked to be on, we, uh, vent that with URS and some of the other, uh, uh, outside groups, and they said it makes more sense to have more eyes on the system and make sure that it's operating as it should.
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Explains that a member remains in the retirement system they started in, with separate systems for legislators, the governor, the judiciary, higher education, and public education.
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Yeah. What it means is you are vested in the, in the retirement program that you are, that you started in. Okay. We have, uh, we have a legislative retirement, we have a governor, we have a judiciary, we have a, uh, there's a different higher ed. There's a public ed. So it means where you start, that's where you are.
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Suggests bringing in a technical expert to answer the question. · speaker not certain
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I've got, oh, I'm, shall we phone a friend for more technical spec specifications on this? Thank
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Explains that other officials have their own retirement programs and defers to Kory Cox for more detail.
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Yeah, there's basically, we have retirement. The governor has a retirement, judges have a retirement. So there are different programs. They're eligible for those workers. But I'll let Mr. Cox fill in some more.
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Thanks the committee for its questions.
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I just wanna express my thanks to this committee. There's been some good questions here, so thank you. Keep up the good work.
S.B. 141 Child Welfare Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Explained the bill as an annual cleanup covering notice to parties in child welfare cases, foster parent case review requests, information sharing, placement and adoption contract provisions, and related technical changes.
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Lemme go through the bill. Um, this is kind of an annual cleanup bill that I work with on the stakeholders to make sure that things are going well with the child, uh, welfare services, DCFS, uh, parental defense advocates and, and other parties. Uh, this bill goes through and clarifies, uh, the main, the main change in the second sub, that it has an agreed to modification regarding the best interest of the child and how parents and caseworkers follow that and agreed to change on the clarification definition of relative. So that's the difference between those two items are the difference between the original bill and the sub, uh, goes through and, and authorizes certain information that should …
S.B. 141 Child Welfare Amendments · Senate Health and Human Services Committee · Jan 26, 2026
Thanked the committee and confirmed the motion being voted on. · speaker not certain
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Thank you very much. I think we're okay because that's the motion that I just wanna make sure.
S.B. 134 Court Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 7) · Jan 26, 2026
Supports the bill, saying added district and appellate judges create workload that flows upward, so Supreme Court justices are needed.
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Mr. President, as we take a look at the, uh, workload in the state, uh, we're adding three new district judges, which I support, and two more pal judges with I, which I support. The workload flows, flows upward. Therefore, I think we do need the Supreme Court judges under the scenario, therefore, I vote. Aye.
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Presented SB 39, which re-codifies existing investment zone laws into one statute, makes no new policy changes except a planned floor amendment on school facilities, and aims to increase transparency.
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to you. Okay. Mike's, Mike's on. Yes, we're good. Well, thank you, uh, chair and committee for, uh, uh, reviewing this bill. This bill was an interim committee bill that, uh, received a 10 to one vote. The one vote said he just isn't like Bill going directly to the floor. That's why it didn't, it was not unanimous. The intent of this is to go through and conform to several changes that have been made. The governor's office of, uh, the governor's, the governor and his staff decided to go through and move incentive programs from various different state agencies into one under undergo. So we have several, um, housing incentive programs that are already currently in code. This …
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Explained the existing investment zone types, including transit-area density and first home investment zones, and said these are already in code.
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Yeah, there are, there are several zones. There's the convention center reinvestment zone, which is designed for Salt Lake City, which has already been adopted and is in place. You have the housing and transit reinvestment zone. Those are within either a third a mile, see, a third, a mile of a tracks or a a or a front runner station, or 40 units per acre in around a, within a quarter mile of A BRT station that's already in code. The intent of that is to go through and state, we've got a lot of public investment in mass transit. Let's have some density around that, and then not impact the rest of the community because you've got people …
S.B. 39 Investment Zones Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he believes the bill enhances transparency and makes it easier for people on either side to make their case.
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I believe this bill enhances transparency and if you like these investment zones or you don't like, it's gonna be easier for you to, to make your case.
S.B. 122 HOA Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Presented SB 122, which adds guidance on items the HOA Ombudsman's office must post and how it responds to complaints, to improve transparency.
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Thank you. Um, I'm not gonna apologize for the fact that I'm bringing a simple HOA bill this year. I don't have all the controversies. The last three years on these, um, we created, very fortunately, the, uh, office of Homeowners Association Ombudsman and our ombudsman in our office are, are present today. Um, there was so much confusion about what was going on. I had people contact me saying, Hey, where's the HOA association rules? Where the HOA Bill of Rights and all this type of stuff, they're in code already. Um, what this bill simply does is provides a little bit more guidance after this office has been up for almost a year, as to things that they …
S.B. 22 Minor Driving Hours Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Harper explains the bill adds foster parents to those who can supervise a minor driving with a learner's permit, and moves that the bill pass.
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Senator Harper, Thank you. When, uh, this bill was run last year, we left out, uh, who can supervise a, a younger person with a learner's permit while operating a vehicle. This applies to children in the custody of DCFS and a couple other places and we forgot to put Ian or missed that a foster parent can also supervise. So that's all this bill does is add Foster parent. Thank you for that presentation. Again, correcting some things we did last year. Say no discussion. Going to you for a motion I'd move under suspension of the rules that Senate Bill 22 pass.
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Presents S.B. 25 as the annual cleanup bill for the Utah Retirement Systems, clarifying several defined terms and procedures.
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Senator Harper. Thank you Mr. President. This is the annual cleanup bill for the Utah Retirement Systems. Uh, it was reviewed by the interim committee and other stakeholders. It, uh, based on operation di different things, we've, uh, clarified the definition of bonafide termination of employment, retirement membership counsel, attorney general's, retirement election, administrative appeals and rulings, and then relinquishment of benefits. It just clarifies those four better practice.
S.B. 35 Amendments to Interdisciplinary Parental Representation Pilot Program · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Says the bill extends the Interdisciplinary Parental Representation Pilot Program for five years and bars a DCFS employee from joining the program immediately after leaving DCFS, requiring a one-year wait.
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This bill extends for five years the program and also clarifies that a person from DCFS can't leave DCFS and immediately go to work for this program. They have to wait a year.
S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Explains that the bill's study items were left out and that a substitute bill adds a definitional phrase and clarifies the study items, then moves to replace the bill with the first substitute.
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discussion on regions, the executive director, the Transportation Commission, and was decided we didn't have enough time. So this bill creates a study program to require the department transportation and other, uh, relevant stakeholders to look at the composition of the transportation Commission, the regions, and the, uh, qualifications for the executive director. After, uh, interim was over, it was, uh, brought to my attention that we left out two items. Uh, staff had forgot to put in a, uh, definitional phrase and that's why uh, there's, there's a new thing in the substitute bill. Plus there was an i, uh, clarification on a couple of the study items and with that, Mr. President, I'd move that we delete and …
S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Says the substitute directs a study of the three items discussed during interim.
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So that this goes through And does the, uh, study for those three items as discussed in interim?
S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Moves that first substitute Senate Bill 36 pass under suspension of the rules.
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You. Under suspension of the rules, I move that first substitute Senate bill 36 pass.
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