Legislators / Ken Ivory
Ken Ivory
Republican · House District 39
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- Email: kivory@le.utah.gov
- Phone: 801-694-8380
- Office: 8393 S 2010 W, WEST JORDAN, UT, 84088
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Ken Ivory serves on:
- Transportation and Infrastructure Appropriations Subcommittee
- House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee
- House Transportation Committee
- Business and Labor Interim Committee
- Transportation Interim Committee
- Federalism Commission
What they've said
226 remarks on 55 billsH.J.R. 30 House Joint Resolution to Approve the Transfer of Land · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Rises in support while stating for the record that the state is not ceding jurisdiction to the federal government through this settlement, and calls the settlement a good one given the circumstances.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, I rise in support, but I also wanna put some things on the record and make clear that while we're selling lands to the federal government or settling a lawsuit, we've not ceded jurisdiction. There are only three ways that we could cede our jurisdiction to the federal government. One would be Article one, section eight, clause 17, where they buy it with our consent for specific purposes for its arsenals, dockyards, other needful buildings. The other is, if we seed it to, we agree to share our jurisdiction or give some small portion of our governing jurisdiction. So while we're settling the lawsuit, I want to make sure it's clear on the record we've …
S.B. 286 Interior Designer Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Presents S.B. 286 as conforming Utah law to international codes for commercial interior designers and offers to answer questions.
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Representative Ivory. Thank you Mr. Speaker. This just conforms what we've done with the International Building Code and the International Code Commission for Commercial Interior Designers. And, uh, with that I'd be happy to answer any questions. Mr. Piute?
S.B. 286 Interior Designer Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
In summation, says interior designers are certified and can be held accountable for misconduct, that the bill does not apply to structures, places them alongside other licensed professions, and urges support.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. That's exactly why these commercial designers take exams and get certified so that they can deal with these things and if they engage in unprofessional conduct or a conduct outside their scope, they can be, uh, dealt with on that. They're certified for those very reasons. And, uh, this doesn't pertain to any structure that just puts them in the same, uh, categories with landscape architects, surveyors, uh, the others that are part of the, uh, international organization, uh, of uh, Inter-Organization Council on Regulation. With that Mr. Speaker, encourage your body support.
S.B. 323 Criminal and Juvenile Justice Recodification · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Praises Director Ross's work and asks how the restructuring affects the Victim Services Commission funding study; Ross responds that finance staff will be consolidated.
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for further discussion And action Representative by Thank You, Mr. Chair. Just, uh, and I think the committee all knows this, but I've had the opportunity to work with, uh, director Ross, uh, very substantially with the Victim Services Commission. And despite having dozens and dozens of meetings and commissions and committees and things to sit on, you wouldn't know it because he seems to give undivided attention to all of them and, uh, heart and soul as he does it. And it's been a pleasure to work with you on all of these things. Um, my only question that I would have is how, how we were talking this morning about kind of the hodgepodge of funding and we're …
S.B. 235 Governor Compensation Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Asks whether a salary set at 95 percent of the governor's puts the Attorney General in line with the market for attorneys.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, Senator, do you think with kinda the specialization on attorneys and, and you know, the, the market salary for attorneys, I mean, even at 95%, does that put us in the market for,
S.B. 235 Governor Compensation Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Asks whether other states tie the Attorney General's salary to the governor's as a percentage or set it another way.
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I I, is this fairly similar for other states where the Attorney General and others are tied as a percentage of the governor, or are the Attorney General uh, paid in some other fashion in other states, if, you know,
S.B. 235 Governor Compensation Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Moves to adopt the first substitute for S.B. 235.
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Representative Ivory. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll make the motion. We adopt first substitute Senate bill 2 35.
S.B. 235 Governor Compensation Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Moves to pass the substitute S.B. 235 out with a favorable recommendation.
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I'll make a motion that we pass out with a favorable recommendation for substitute Senate bill 2 35.
S.B. 297 School Social Worker Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Proposes a substitute amendment to strike the intern language on line 44 so the bill covers only licensed personnel who collaborate.
▶ Watch at 1:32:04Read what they said
Thank you. I'd like to reserve the right to make a motion. Um, I'm looking at House Bill 2 81 and it says, the authorized person means an individual who holds a license and the license that it describes. And then it says, or whom an individual described above supervises to the extent the individual's actions fall within the scope of services. And I'm thinking, is that not an intern? If it's saying an individual whom that person supervises, I'm, I'm just curious who that's getting at if it's not an intern or an employee or, or something of that nature. I, I, I, I guess I'm not seeing the distinction, but if the sponsor is amenable and the, the …
S.B. 100 Federalism Revisions · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Explains that S.B. 100 asks agencies for more information on federal guidance letters and their impact on state jurisdiction, and includes provisions tied to the National Federalism Initiative work.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Last year we passed a bill to deal with federal guidance letters. These are kind of the dear colleague letters from the federal government and we've now been reviewing them from all of the various departments and, and then helping provide guidance as to any impact it has on state jurisdiction. Uh, this just asks for additional information from the agencies. Basically, what impact does it have on jurisdictional, uh, input and then, uh, also has some additional, uh, matters that pertain to the work, the National Federalism Initiative work. And that Mr. Speaker is, uh, is the bill.
S.B. 100 Federalism Revisions · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Thanks the presiding officer and asks the House to support the bill, noting it has been a significant issue nationally.
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Mr. Speaker, just thank you for your leadership on this and, uh, as you know, this has been a big deal nationally. And with that, uh, uh, commend this to the body support.
S.C.R. 5 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP Regarding Pain Medication · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Asks the sponsor to describe the specific non-opioid medications the resolution refers to.
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Thank you. Mr. Speaker. Will the sponsor yield to a question or perhaps to Representative Ward? Will you yield to a series of questions? Yes, yes. Representative? I'm curious if you could describe specifically what type of non-opioid medications you're referring to here.
S.C.R. 5 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP Regarding Pain Medication · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Says he did not catch part of the answer and asks where these medications are in the approval and deployment process.
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Sorry, Mr. Speaker. I think I heard something like blah, blah, blah, public LANs or gold, but, uh, it sounded really good. Uh, I'm wondering, uh, Mr. Speaker, if you could help me understand where these types of medications are in the approval process or, or use, uh, deployment process.
S.C.R. 5 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP Regarding Pain Medication · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Asks how a patient would know to request the medication and whether a doctor must prescribe it.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker, one last question. How would someone, would a patient have to know to ask for this? Would a doctor be required to prescribe it or how would a patient know to get this?
S.C.R. 5 Concurrent Resolution Directing PEHP Regarding Pain Medication · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Thanks the sponsor for his answers and states support for the resolution.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the, uh, floor sponsor's knowledge on this subject and, uh, stand in support.
S.B. 298 Programmable Money Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Rep. Ivory asked how the Fed Now system fits into the bill and where it has progressed.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the, the Fed now that was announced what year and a half, two years ago, does that fit into this? And, and how and where has that progressed? What's happening with that?
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presented HB 195 as a follow-on to HB 348, saying it lets vendors pay in precious metals, grows out of a 2024 study group, and ties to the constitutional gold and silver provision, and introduced State Treasurer Marlo Oaks.
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And, uh, we Included the, Is it on, uh, The license? Oh, there we go. Yeah, the light was on. Yeah, so, so HB 1 95 follows on house Bill 3 48. That was the bill that allowed us to invest, uh, a portion of the rainy day funds, uh, in precious metals. And, and through that we set up a, a, a study group that went all throughout 2024. And it was a world class study group. We had the vice chair of the Federal Reserve. We had the CFO of Citigroup and Amex, and a number of others, a bankers association, a variety of others. And from that came this bill that said, Utah's a leader in FinTech …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Summarized the bill's benefits, saying large payments in gold are cumbersome and that people can save small amounts in precious metals consistent with constitutional protection.
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You know, if you just imagine trying to make a payment of a couple of hundred thousand, 200,000, $327 and 12 cents in, in, in gold and how you might divide that up, it would take forever to do that. Or if someone wanted to save and preserve the purchasing power and save $5 a month or $50 a month, they can do that under this type of format. And it follows our constitutional responsibility to, to protect people in that format and would encourage committee support. Thank you.
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Explained that HB 405 was not funded, that a former purchasing director said the approach would save money, and that the bill will be studied with an audit and possibly brought back next year.
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Yes, I would. Um, it didn't get funded. And, and so, uh, in the purchasing department, we had the former purchasing director that said this kind of an approach should save money and wouldn't increase costs. And in fact, when they Uintah that kind of a fee base, it didn't increase costs. And yet the agency put a pretty hefty fiscal note on it. And so I think we're gonna study that and look into having an audit done, and then we can come back next year because the practice locally and nationally had been in, in doing this, it actually saves vendors money. So it would allow us to, to take that approach and save money for particularly rainy …
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presents HB 362 and says the sponsors worked with Representative Peterson to balance local flexibility with statewide policy aimed at getting more water to Great Salt Lake. Asks the witness to state her name and organization.
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Good morning, Mr. Chair. Members of the Committee. You pulled that microphone a little closer to Candace. That, is that a little better? That's much better. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the committee great to be with you today. Just wanted to comment that we have been working with Representative Peterson on this bill to try to find the balance, as was mentioned in previous comments and discussion. It is a tricky thing, so giving the flexibility to locals to do what they need to do while giving the overall state policy direction on trying to get more water to Great Salt Lake is, was kind of the balance we were working on. Candace, you, we, I, I know …
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Supports the bill, saying investors whose assets are held by an intermediary should be told when they are not the actual owner.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also rise in support of this. Um, I think it's important for us to consider what this bill does. The very, very small step this bill does, it simply asks for sunlight. If a financial intermediary is holding your life, savings, your retirement, and you're not in first position, you aren't the actual owner, they just have to tell you. And if there's pushback for that heaven, help us. We should have gone much farther. Encourage your body support.
S.B. 227 Punitive Damages Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Moves to pass Senate Bill 227, second substitute, with a favorable recommendation.
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Alright. Yeah. Let's, I'll be happy to make the motion that we pass out Senate bill 2 77, second substitute with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Presents HB 534, saying it extends the existing private property owner immunity for firearm discharges to the state and its subdivisions, and says he will take questions.
▶ Watch at 1:41:35Read what they said
Mr. Chairman, may I have my intern pass out some Flyers? Certainly, go ahead. I'm Hoping this is gonna be one of the fastest bills you've done, uh, all year. This is very simple. Okay. Uh, under 53 5 1 0 3, private property owners and tenants are not liable for someone that has a firearm on the press premises and discharges it unless they request it or assist in it. It just extends that same immunity to the state and to the subdivisions. And that's the bill. Okay. I brief, let me come to committee for any questions, then I have one from Senator Blouin.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Says the code defines the term as an individual who can carry a firearm, so a corporation would not be covered, and that this differs from what LRGC communicated.
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No, I don't believe so. In the code, it defines that as a, as an individual person and someone to carry and hold a firearm, a corporation could not carry a firearm. That's not, uh, that's not what LRGC communicated to us.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Says line 76 uses the term individual and he does not know of any code that refers to a corporation as an individual.
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Well, it does say an individual on line 76, right? An individual who, uh, may lawfully possess a firearm, I don't know, anywhere in the code that we refer to a corporation as an individual.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Says the change to person was a cleanup not requested in the bill and that line 76 still uses individual who lawfully possesses, so it would not apply to a company or entity.
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Yeah, I'm not, I, I think to my knowledge, that's just a cleanup that wasn't something that we requested in the bill, but, but again, down in 76, it, it takes that same term individual who lawfully possesses. So that wouldn't apply to a company or an entity.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Says the drafting attorneys did not raise that concern and that the bill clearly uses individual, which he cannot see extending to an entity.
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Yeah, I think it's an interesting concern. I, um, in, in dealing with the drafting attorneys on this, that that never came up. It wasn't contemplated and I, I've never, maybe there was some other discussion that I'm not aware of, but, uh, here that, you know, it clearly states to individual a couple of different times and you know, I don't, uh, I'm just trying to think of how you would get from individual to an entity and I, I don't, you know, I can't really contemplate that, but it's interesting.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Says the only part requested was lines 75 to 82, that drafters conform language throughout bills, and that he will continue the discussion with the senator.
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Yeah, no, it's a great point. Uh, that was not something that was requested. You know, often our drafters, when they're doing bills, they try to conform language throughout. And so I mean that the only part that we requested was the part that's down from 75 to 82. And, uh, and so I would assume that, you know, person was something that is part of the drafting convention of our drafting attorneys. But I'm happy to chat with them and continue the discussion with you.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asks how the bill addresses first and last mile connections to transit.
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Is this for Carlos representative? Yes, go ahead. There we go. Thank you. So what, uh, does this do for first and Last Mile? How do we, how do we deal with that issue? Is that treated anywhere in this? Because if we're increasing capacity point to point, but you can't get there and you can't get from the termination point to where you need to go. What? Help me understand that. Yeah, Mr. Chairman, please do.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Raises concerns about federal debt and how the state should weigh federal funding.
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Okay. And then, you know, I hate to bring it up, but you probably can, can know where I'm going with this, that, you know, we're, we're gonna hit it 1.2 trillion in interest at the federal level this year, and within three years, projected to be $2 trillion in interest and Social Security Trust fund going to zero in five years. And, you know, all of that. And, and no single snowflake ever would admit that it caused the avalanche. How do we, how do we reconcile that, Mr. Chairman, please? That,
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Comments on federal spending and thanks the witness. · speaker not certain
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Yeah. Yeah. And everybody else in America does the same thing, and then we'll be at 50 trillion is the dilemma. Right? Yep. Okay. All right. No, I Appreciate it. Thank you.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asks how much future sales tax growth would be committed to future legislatures under the bill.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I'm curious if we pass this and go down this road, how much of future growth will we have already, uh, committed to future legislatures? Are you talking about the funding in this bill? Correct. So if, if we're committing future growth, It's 0.05% of the FU state sales tax future growth, And, and, and then we've done that on future growth for other things.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asks for a clear picture of how much future growth is already committed.
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Yeah. I'm just, I'm just curious. Transportation. There's, uh, some other programs. I don't know what the percentage is. Okay. Yeah, I'd just be curious to know, you know, with this, how much future growth have we already, you know, committed to future legislatures that, you know, essentially we would tie the hands of future legislatures on future growth? I just would, would like to know what that looks like.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Says that existing transit commitments could make redirecting future funds difficult.
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Go ahead, please. It's just that I understand that. But if we have projects that, forgive the analogy, if it, if we're already pregnant in certain transit projects, it would be hard to redirect that going forward. And I just think it would be responsible to know how much we might be, uh, committing going forward to, to, uh, to look at that. But I, I appreciate the, the insight on that.
S.B. 197 Transportation Funding and Governance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Expresses concern about federal debt and future generations and says he may vote no.
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Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. Um, I, I think the project is, is great. I, I, I wish we had a magic wand to, to make it happen. Um, Representative Defay comments particularly struck me that, um, I, I, I hope that future generations would thank and be thrilled and pleased with this. But I, I remain very concerned that we're doing this project on the checkbook of future generations. And, you know, we had a, a federalism commission meeting in November that we listened to three hours of federal budget experts telling us that we're three to five years away from, you know, some kind of dollar implosion federal finance reset because it's, you know, G-A-O-C-B-O, all of them …
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asks how people would learn of the issue and what the consequences would be if they did not know.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. In my light, started working again. Thanks. Um, so how, how would people know there was any kind of a problem otherwise? And what would the consequences potentially be if they didn't know?
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asks whether banks have previously been placed in first position over retirement investments.
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Mr. Chair, one more question. So we had like the 2008 meltdown, other financial upheavals. Uh, has this ever played out where banks have been put in first position over people's retirement, their investments, what? That they think they're in first position?
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Moves to adopt the first substitute to H.B. 543.
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Yeah. I'll make a motion that we adopt, uh, house Bill 5 43 first substitute.
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Moves to pass the first substitute of H.B. 543 out with a favorable recommendation.
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Representative Ivory. Thank You, Mr. Chair. I'd like to make a motion that we pass out house Bill 5 43. First substitute with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 543 Uniform Commercial Code Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Calls the issue stunning and urges the sponsor and committee to keep examining it and the implications for retirement assets.
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Yeah, this is kind of stunning. I mean, to think of what this is, I tend to agree with, with Representative Thurston, that, uh, I would encourage the sponsor and this committee to keep, um, digging into this, looking into this, that, um, you know, the implications of people not being in first position on their retirement assets, that they've been, you know, working on all their lives and thinking that that's their nest egg. And they may not be in first position. It's just, it's, it's almost hard to imagine the implications. So, applaud the sponsor and, uh, as a committee, I think we should need, we need to keep looking into this and maybe, you know, go further. …
S.B. 149 Licensing Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 26, 2026
Asked how much of the code is new versus moved from BCI to Commerce.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just curious, how much of this code is new code versus being moved from BCI to commerce? Is that, is it, is much of this just kind of cut and paste?
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Presents H.B. 546, which would map and monitor public lands to measure their access, health, and productivity, and cites a history of federal jurisdiction over lands within states.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. I have here on my desk, uh, a study that we found. It was the, uh, most comprehensive study ever done on the subject of jurisdiction over federal areas within the states. Mr. Speaker, there was a VA compound in Pennsylvania that the children lived on the VA compound with their parents. But Uintah the local school, they didn't pay tax 'cause they lived on the VA compound. And one night the city council said you can't come to our schools 'cause they didn't pay tax. Got all the way up to President Eisenhower. He ordered the study of jurisdiction over federal areas within the states. There was a policy manual, the other volume was a …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House floor debate (day 37) · Feb 26, 2026
Accepts the verbal amendment as friendly and says the sponsor intended to include it originally.
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Representative Ivory on that verbal amendment. That's A friendly amendment. Mr. Speaker, we intended to have that in the bill originally and appreciate the good sponsor, uh, making the amendment.
H.B. 59 Identification Verification Amendments · House floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Supports the bill and praises the sponsor's work, citing a constituent's 13-year-old son who was killed by a driver with five DUI convictions.
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Thank Mr. Speaker. I also wanna rise in support of this bill and applaud the good sponsor. His work has been tireless in this area, and my constituents have benefited tremendously. It was, uh, my constituent, uh, goodness four years ago this year, that 13-year-old young man walking his bike across a crosswalk home was run over by a five time DUI driver and, and killed, left for dead. And, uh, good sponsor has worked tirelessly with my constituents, with others and on these bills and, uh, can't thank him enough for the effort that he has made and encourage a body support.
H.B. 59 Identification Verification Amendments · House floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Supports the bill, praising the sponsor's work and describing a constituent's child who was killed by a repeat DUI driver.
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Thank Mr. Speaker. I also wanna rise in support of this bill and applaud the good sponsor. His work has been tireless in this area, and my constituents have benefited tremendously. It was, uh, my constituent, uh, goodness four years ago this year, that 13-year-old young man walking his bike across a crosswalk home was run over by a five time DUI driver and, and killed, left for dead. And, uh, good sponsor has worked tirelessly with my constituents, with others and on these bills and, uh, can't thank him enough for the effort that he has made and encourage a body support.
H.B. 442 Feminine Hygiene Products Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Questioned the wording of the covered substance definition and whether intentional applies to chemicals as well as added ingredients.
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Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair, uh, on line 1 41. I'm, I'm a little curious about the wording. It says, covered substance means a chemical or an intentionally added ingredient. So intentionally doesn't seem to modify chemical. It only modifies intentionally added ingredient. So covered the substances that are covered under the statute are both the intentionally added and the chemicals listed in the, in the bill. So all of those substances are covered under the bill. That's what the meaning is of covered substances. I'm, I'm just looking at the way that's worded though. If, if we were gonna cover chemical and added ingredient, it, it, it would say a covered substance means an intentionally added chemical or ingredient. …
H.B. 442 Feminine Hygiene Products Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said the wording means chemicals do not carry an intentional requirement, while only added ingredients do.
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Well, on line, on line 41 41, it says, covered substance means, and then it has two things. Right? And I, I'm familiar with it. And one is a chemical uhhuh, and the other one is an intentionally added ingredient. So intentional doesn't modify chemical, it only modifies Added ingredients. No, they're two separate things, intentionally added ingredients. And the chemicals listed in the bill are two separate categories, both covered under the bill. I don't know. In my brain it makes sense. I'm not sure. I'm not understanding where the disconnect is. Okay. Well, le legally, the way that is written chemical does not have an intentional requirement to it. The way this is written, only added ingredient has …
H.B. 442 Feminine Hygiene Products Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked whether unintentionally present chemicals fall under the bill as written.
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So, so The chemicals are not intentionally added. Okay. That's what I, That's my question. We hope they're not, that's, that's, That's what I'm trying to, to, to get to. Yeah. So I understood you speaking to the chair that Okay. That it was only if it was intentional. But the way this is written, chemicals don't have to be intentional.
H.B. 442 Feminine Hygiene Products Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked how the $5,000 penalty amount was determined.
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Whatever I said to the chair didn't make sense to you. O okay. Well then, all right. So then if someone unintentionally has a chemical in one of these products, where does the amount, how, how did you come up with the amount of $5,000 for, uh, a violation? It's 2,500, correct?
H.B. 442 Feminine Hygiene Products Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Supports the intent of the bill but is concerned that as written, even unintentional trace amounts of chemicals could trigger fines, and that it could lead to litigation.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I completely support the intent and the purpose of the legislation. I'm just concerned as written, this is gonna set up a lot of, uh, litigation potentially. Uh, we have a And your concern is that one line, If I'm in Mr. Chair, if I could, Yeah. Uh, it's Representative Iris's chair. Okay. I just need to know what the concern is. I'll just, Just let him, you, you'll, you'll be able to sum. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I'm concerned that any chemical, and there's no weight, there's no limit. The 1% is only to listing. But if even a trace of the chemicals unintentionally are in a product, then there are fines and …
H.B. 478 Residential Rental Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked whether a lease that already sets scheduled rent increases is allowed under the bill.
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Thank you. So if the agreement already specifies that the rent would be increased at certain intervals, is that okay?
H.B. 478 Residential Rental Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked whether a lease with a yearly set increase satisfies the 60-day requirement.
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But, but my question is, so there's a lease agreement mm-hmm. That says the rent will be increased by a certain amount every year. Does that satisfy the 60 day requirement?
H.B. 478 Residential Rental Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Read from the bill's subsection on cost, fee, and assessment increases in rental agreements.
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So on line 1 38, nothing in the subsection nine prevents an owner from increasing the amount the renter pays for any cost fee assessment or final allowed under the rental agreement, including an automatic increase to a cost fee assessment or a fine provided in the rental agreement.
H.B. 478 Residential Rental Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked whether landlords who add automatic increases to their leases would make the bill affect only those unaware of such provisions.
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But, but if I may, Mr. Chair, last question. So if the landlords all just change their rental agreements to have an automatic increase, then this bill would only affect those that weren't aware of having that provision in their lease agreement. Is that the way this would play out?
H.B. 478 Residential Rental Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said his understanding is that the bill directs landlords to change their agreements and sets a standard for future agreements.
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Okay. So, as I understand it, this is just telling all the landlords to go out and change their agreements. It's establishing a, a floor for, for an understanding in agreements going forward.
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Moved to pass the third substitute of S.B. 45 with a favorable recommendation.
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Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I'll make a motion that we pass out, uh, Senate Bill 45 third substitute with a favorable recommendation.
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Cited federal health agency findings on kratom risks and said it should not be dispensed from gas stations or smoke shops, calling the bill a good step.
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Yeah, I would just briefly, um, you know, looking up some of these things and the bills that we've had in front of us, FDA says there's no no evidence of safe medical use. Safety concerns remain National Institutes of Health research ongoing pharmacologically complex, possibly promising national institutes of drug abuse, potential therapeutic compounds exist, but the risks are real. And, and they put it in the category of pharmacologically active compounds with cannabis psychedelics and herbal opioid substances. I just don't think that should be dispensed from a gas station or even a smoke shop. I think dosing and control, if I've gotta go to a pharmacist and show my IAD to get Sudafed to keep my nose …
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Said the bill makes kratom marginally safer, not safe, and urged support for the motion.
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Just briefly. I think this bill makes it marginally safer. I want to be very clear. I don't think this makes it safe. I think it makes it marginally safer. And for that it's a, it's a step incurred for the motion.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Presents H.B. 534, which extends to government buildings the same firearm immunity private property owners have for people carrying firearms in their buildings.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker Pro tem. This bill simply, uh, conforms the same immunity that private property owners have for someone carrying a firearm in their building. It conforms that to government building, owning owners and that's the whole bill.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the substitute should be moved first and describes a very slight amendment requested by UHP.
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Oh yes, I'm sorry. There was a very, very slight amendment that, uh, UHP requested. Okay.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the first substitute is a friendly amendment with a couple of word changes requested by UHP, which he was happy to make.
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to adopt first substitute house bill 5 34. This Is a friendly amendment. Uh, UHP had just a couple word changes. We were happy to do that.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the substitute is a friendly amendment that makes a couple of word changes requested by the Utah Highway Patrol.
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to adopt first substitute house bill 5 34. This Is a friendly amendment. Uh, UHP had just a couple word changes. We were happy to do that.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the substance was already discussed and waives further discussion on the bill.
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Uh, yeah, I think we already discussed the substance of it. I'll waive any further discussion.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Says the substance was already discussed and waives further discussion on the bill.
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Uh, yeah, I think we already discussed the substance of it. I'll waive any further discussion.
H.B. 411 Human Trafficking Hotline Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Thanks the presenters and says protecting children is one of the most important duties of government.
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Yeah, if I may just quickly, I mean, I Didn't speak during the, the opening of this, but Kim, thank you and all of you. Very important area and one of the most important things government does is protect the innocence. So thank you all for bringing this.
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Introduces the bill, which would map federal lands by jurisdiction category and monitor access, health, and productivity, and describes a federal study on state jurisdiction over federal areas.
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We, we do, yes. Mr. Chair got, uh, John Howard online. And, uh, Go Ahead. I wanna thank, I wanna thank the committee. I want to, I want I want us to take a minute and just appreciate the irony here. We have Representative Ward had a resolution to transfer public lands, and I've got a bill that doesn't have anything to do with transfer of public lands. It just has to do with better management and access, health and productivity of the land. I just need to let that soak in for just a minute. I'm appreciating. I think it's great. Um, to, to one of the comments that was made earlier. We have done so much work in …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Continues describing the federal jurisdiction study, its 2025 update, and the federalism commission's review of it, and asks to bring in John Howard to explain the update.
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We discovered a few years ago that there is a federal study, uh, on jurisdiction over federal areas within the states. Two volumes. It comes from the early 1950s that there was a large VA compound, I believe it was in Pennsylvania. And the VA compound, most of the people in the town lived on the VA compound. So they didn't pay tax to the city, but the city was providing police and fire and sewer and, and, and schools. But most of the people there didn't pay tax. And one night the city council decided, well, you're not paying tax, so your kids can't come to the school anymore and we're not gonna provide services 'cause you're not helping …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Summarizes the bill's three steps of mapping lands by jurisdiction, monitoring them for public nuisance such as overgrown forests, and reporting back to the committee, and offers a possible amendment.
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Uh, just a couple more. I just want to go to the bill quickly. Go ahead. If, if you would go to lines 2 83 in the bill, this is a very, very simple bill, and it does three simple things. Map the lands according to the jurisdictional categories, monitor those lands and, and measure the access, the health and the productivity of the lands. And the mapping is to be done by January of 2028. So we have a great deal of time to work on the mapping, but that's all the bill does, is we wanna map the lands and then measure the access, health and productivity. We want to map out the high value critical minerals because …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Explains that landscape-scale lands are large areas where poorly maintained forests cause wildfire and watershed damage, and that the mapping would cover them.
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Right. And so in defining that, we're looking at those big broad areas of land mm-hmm. That if the forests aren't well maintained, we see devastating consequences. Like the Brian Head fire that, in fact the, the gentleman, I think his last name is Owen, that owns the general store at Panguitch Lake, you know, one of the nation's top blue ribbon fisheries. He went out and bought an 8,000 gallon water tanker personally because they knew the conditions were so bad that the fire was coming. Sadly, the water tanker didn't show up until three days after the fire hit. But, but we're looking at those big areas that if we don't, rather, if we allow them to maintain …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Says the bill mainly documents the federal study's jurisdiction categories and first identifies land conditions and mineral interests, with no further steps.
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Not necessarily. Uh, what that section does is really reiterate what the federal study has said about the state jurisdiction versus the federal jurisdiction. And so we're documenting that in our code. And then our first step is to identify what the condition of those lands are, where those mineral interests and things may be. We don't take any steps beyond that, but we identify what the federal study has indicated, and then we do the inventory based on the federal study. Is
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Says the federal jurisdiction categories have been recognized in federal law and manuals from 1957 to 2020, and that the state should document its own jurisdiction.
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Yeah, as a matter of fact, it's, it's been recognized and codified, if you will, from 1957 all the way up to 2020. Uh, 1970 was a massive study called a Third of the Nation's Land. And that was the study that led to flipma, the Federal Land Policy Management Act in the Forest Act recognizes these jurisdictional categories, uh, further documents in 19 73, 74, all the way up to 2020 Army field service manuals, uh, DOI manuals where they recognize these jurisdictional categories. What's interesting is it's in the federal studies, but we haven't recognized our own jurisdiction as a state. They've done the studies, they've done the inventory, and we've been acting like we're not the government, …
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Thanks Ulbrich and says the commission focuses on the structure of government and the roles of federal and state partners.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I may just go ahead. The Summit that we had really was impressive. And the whole point of what we're doing is focusing on structure of our government over politics. We can keep fighting over Blue King versus Red King, and we swing from one extreme to the other every four years. These are efforts to get down to the jurisdiction, to the roles and responsibilities of our federal partner in the States where we govern as a partnership. And, and that's the critical aspect of what we do by drilling down on the jurisdiction, we're identifying our roles versus theirs. So we do governings. Pardon? Thank you, Mr. Chair, for very
H.B. 546 Public Lands Duty of Care Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 23, 2026
Responds to the motion by citing a 2015 letter and the bill's multiple-use, sustained-yield, and wildlife language, and asks the committee for support.
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You. You having your back at a letter from Representative Chait and Bishop. This is from 2015. They sent a letter to the GSA and said, do you have any update on that GSA inventory? They said, no. That's our latest inventory. That is the inventory of jurisdiction. This is about working as partners, understanding our jurisdiction. If you look in the other language of the bill, talks about multiple use, sustained yield, forage for wildlife, working with sportsmen, working with all of those various recreational interests, cultural, uh, uh, resources. That's all in the bill. That's the kind of management we have committed to. With that, I encourage the committee support.
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Presents H.B. 362, which would let mining companies pay state tax in refined gold held in a separate vault, and extends a similar incentive to critical and rare earth miners in Utah.
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Representative Ivory, Mr. Speaker pro tem, I have a very important announcement to make. This is my last gold bill of the 2020 succession. This is actually an incentive for our largest well incentive. It's an ability for one of our largest industries in the state mining industry to instead of mining gold and then losing the spread by converting it to dollars and then paying the tax, it allows 'em to pay the tax directly in gold, refined to a pure standard deposited with the Brink's vault completely separate from our rainy day account, but it allows them to transact in gold and then between the miners in the state, we get to capture that spread by capturing the …
H.B. 249 Federal Funds Modifications · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Supports the bill as Federalism Commission-approved legislation and raises concern about the projected depletion of Social Security and Medicare trust funds.
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Thank Mr. Speaker ProAm. I rise in support of this. This is, uh, federalism commission, uh, approved legislation. And I won't belabor the point, but just so that we know, uh, the Social Security Trust fund and the Medicare trust funds are scheduled to be completely depleted in five and a half years. And when we ask our members of Congress, what are they doing about it? They say they can't even talk about it in DC and their only plan is to continue to monetize until this hits the states, we need to be planning for these types of contingencies and encourage a body support.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Ivory says the bill's originators ran a social health program that helped at Harriman High School after a 2017 suicide crisis, and that he wants the definition right, so he is moving the bill back to rules and then to the Administrative Rules Committee to work with the state school board.
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I would. I would. Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker. Uh, the originators of this bill have been doing excellent work, including at Harriman High School, following a suicide epidemic crisis that they had in 2017. And they introduced a program of social health and it worked wonders there. And in many other schools, we know that as beings, we physical, mental, social is critical. And Mr. Speaker, I thought, how hard could it be to do a bill to just define social health? And turns out I got emails that I'm the Satan of SEL and that, uh, somebody even said my wife works for the bill originator and they haven't even met until two weeks ago. And turns …
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Ivory says he will step back from the role of social-emotional learning advocate and will return to his conservative position while working with others to get the definition right.
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Much as you know, I thought I was 15 years hiding to come out to be, you know, the king of SEL. I think I'll retire from that and return to my conservative line and, and work with these good people to get this definition right.
H.B. 433 Professional Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Asks what a substantive inquiry looks like and says the office's work has been helpful.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just quickly, I mean, I agree with Representative Wilcox. I think the output's been very helpful and tremendous in what you've been doing. I'm curious, you said you had one substantive inquiry. What, what does a substantive inquiry look like from your standpoint?
H.B. 433 Professional Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Moves to pass out HB 433 with a favorable recommendation, using the first substitute.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. I'd like to make a motion we pass out, uh, house Bill 4 33. First sub with a favor. Recommendation. We need to adopt the
H.B. 433 Professional Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Revises the motion to adopt the first substitute for HB 433.
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Then I would change that motion to adopting, uh, house bill 4 30 33 for substitute The, the sub Right to adopt for a substitute house bill. 4 33.
H.B. 433 Professional Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Moves to pass out the first substitute for HB 433 with a favorable recommendation.
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The sub is adopted. Representative Ivory. Yes. So I'll make the motion now to that we pass out for substitute house bill 4 33 with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Presents H.B. 405, which would set aside a portion of state purchasing contract fees in a restricted fund invested in gold to hedge against inflation and emergencies.
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Thank Mr. Speaker in Utah, we know better than anyone in the nation. The proverb that is on the handout that we passed out. The prudent See the danger and prepare this bill is about preparing for the dangers that we see coming in inflation and in the nature that we have with, uh, with the dollar and the de de debasement of the dollar that we've seen lately. The bill's very simple. It takes a small percentage of the, uh, contracts that are awarded for purchases. The, the state puts out RFPs, uh, service providers, vendors bid on those contracts. Three tenths of a percent is what's used to pay the purchasing department. Typical vendor fees range from 2% …
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Responds that the fee is meant to defray the cost of purchasing goods as inflation rises, since more units of gold can be bought per dollar.
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Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Uh, one of the purposes of a fee is to defray the cost of regulating an activity. And, and we know that we're experiencing inflation five to 10% and more annually. What this does is allow us to defray the cost of purchasing goods year over year because we're getting substantially more units per ounce of gold than we are for dollars.
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Says the money would be managed with the state treasurer and that gold is a hedge against inflation used by central banks.
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Yeah. Uh, thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this actually would be turned over to the treasurer and working with the treasurer. This is the best way to, to hedge against the inflation that we're seeing, it's how national central banks and, and, uh, those around the world are hedging against inflation is in this very manner.
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Gives closing remarks citing gold's historical growth rate, the 2008 recession as the reason for the fund, and support from a former purchasing director.
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You, Mr. Speaker. Great points, great discussion. Compounded annual growth rate of gold going back to 1971 is 8.9%, uh, almost three times anything we have in the rainy day fund. We did work with investors, investment managers on this, this very process. And, and as far as being a tax, the money is set aside so that we can continue to buy the goods and services that services that we need. Should we run into another 2008 type meltdown? And now that's what this is meant for. So the money is, is set aside so we can keep buying motor fuel. We can keep buying the goods and services that we need. In 2008, we were rummaging through the …
H.B. 464 Parent Taught Driver Education Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Asked how many newly licensed drivers take an official class from a driving school.
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Thank, thank you Mr. Chair. Yeah. I want to kind of build on what, uh, Representative Romero was asking. Uh, and, and thank you for the work you do. Obviously you're very conscientious about what you do. Do you know how many newly licensed drivers take, uh, an official class from a company like yours?
H.B. 464 Parent Taught Driver Education Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Asked how many people get licensed without taking an official course and how that data could be found.
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But there, there could be. I mean, I mean that's kind of what I was getting at. Newly licensed drivers that, you know, under 19, over 19 that may or may not have taken the class. I mean, we get newly licensed drivers from, you know, immigrants, people that come from other states that I understand now that, that I can't understand it, but kids are not getting their driver's license the day they turned 16. I couldn't have imagined that when, you know, when I was young, we'd like raced down and be there as soon as it opened. But, but that, I'm kind of wondering that how many people don't take an official course and yet they pass …
H.B. 176 Trust Business Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Asked whether limits such as advertising restrictions and client-based practice address concerns about building a business, and whether smaller trusts need a workable option because bank fees can be high.
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Thank you Mr. Rice Chair. So Mr. Headley, I'm, I'm sympathetic to, to what you're saying, the need for bonding and insurance on, on, you know, larger substantial trusts that, you know, you've got securities, you've got business interests, you have all those sorts of things. But, but then there's also the, you know, the family business, the, the smaller trusts where they, they don't know where to turn. And, and you know, I've, I've done enough estate planning work that for the smaller situation, when you get a bank or a trust company, the fees just can, can eat up the principle of the trust very quickly. So, so I I'm just curious that I think the way this …
H.B. 176 Trust Business Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Asked whether the bill's limits keep attorneys and CPAs from building a business out of trusteeships.
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But if, if I could I, and kind of the heart of the question then is, is there, are there not in here limits that they really can't go out and build a business. They can't go advertise and, and, and, you know, put up a billboard and whatever, it really comes from their own clientele. Is that help? Help me? Doesn't that kind of limit it for that?
H.B. 176 Trust Business Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Asked whether a limit could be suggested for smaller trusts.
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I i, if I may just one, one last question that very quickly please. That, that, um, is there some limit that you would suggest? I mean, smaller trust, uh, you know, some type of a limit for the types of situations that we're talking about where there is that need and, and there is a limit that the attorney loses their license.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory presents HB 534, saying it extends the existing private-property immunity for firearms to state and local government property unless the government directs a discharge, and introduces former Representative Curtis Oda.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I didn't realize I needed to sing and dance my way in to be more conspicuous, but, uh, I'll work On that. Well, now you, now that you offer that, I think that's a, I think you've set the bar I'd, uh, I'd defer to my wife on that one. This is a super simple bill. Um, under, uh, Utah Cove 53 5 A 1 0 3, we, uh, we allowed private property owners that allowed people to have their firearms on private property to be a, to have immunity if there was any kind of a discharge of the firearm unless they directed it. And so, private property owners have, have immunity. Mr. Chair, I …
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory says the bill is an incentive to keep government immunity in place and that it does not punish anyone, and offers to answer questions.
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It's on. Yeah, just get closer. It's on. Okay. Alright. Uh, thank you, uh, Mr. Chair. Uh, this bill it, for many years we've always looked at, uh, penalizing people that, that break the law. Well, what we're trying to do here is to incentivize them to not break the law, get ahead of it, so that way, uh, if we give them immunity, they're gonna look at that and say, well, if we, if we, uh, start banning or restricting, we our, uh, you know, lawsuit, immunities may go away. So this is this, I'm looking at an incentive rather than a punishment. So it's just a simple clarification that, uh, you carry a firearm, you're not liable unless …
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory says there have been real examples and defers to Curtis Oda to explain.
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You bet. There's been some real examples. Uh, I think Mr. Oda can speak to that.
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory confirms that the immunity protects the government entity, not the person who discharged the firearm, and cites constitutional provisions on the right to bear arms.
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Yeah, that's correct. And what we've seen, we've seen across the country, we've seen people sue the, the firearm manufacturer. We, we've seen them sue, you know, everybody that might have any connection with an incident. And this just protects the government that says, look, you know, our constitution protects our right to defend ourselves. Article one, section one, people have inherent right to enjoy and defend their lives and liberties. Article one, section six, right, of the people to keep in bear arms for security, defense of self, family, others, property or the state or other lawful purposes shall not be infringed. And I mean, that's in our constitution. So it just simply says, you know, the fact that …
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory responds that the person responsible for an item, not the government, should be liable for careless handling.
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Sure. Right. It shouldn't be the government. No, that's right. And the same would go for a firearm. I think people just care more about firearms because they're so politically charged. But at the, at the end of the day, we could be talking about anything. We could be talking about a razor blade. We could be talking about a pill, we could be talking about anything. The principle that I think you're bringing up here is the government should not be held accountable for other people's decisions. That's Right. That's right. But Lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuits, hits everyone that in, in that per, uh, parameter. So, you know, the, the, the property owner, uh, tenants, uh, uh, even somebody that, …
H.B. 534 Firearm Immunity Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Ivory says the bill defines the lawful use of firearms and protects government from liability for others' use of firearms on government property.
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to say on this bill. Yeah, Just article one, section six of the Constitution says, the legislature defines the lawful use of firearms, and that's what we're doing here, making sure that people have the lawful use and there aren't, they aren't infringed in that, and government's not liable for the use of, you know, that people do on government property.
S.B. 44 Statewide Resource Management Plan Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Explains that S.B. 44 changes the date from 25 to 26 so the state's resource management plan can be authorized for 2026, noting the plan is updated every year and covers how state lands and resources are managed.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This may be one of the most difficult bills. We'll do all session. It just changes the date from 25 to 26. We update our, our, uh, resource management plan every year. We have a resource management plan that deals with how we we manage all the lands and resources in the state. We're the only state that does that. This just authorizes the plan for 2026. So Mr. Speaker with that? That's the, uh, that's the bill.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Spoke in support, saying there is currently little regulation of kratom sold in gas stations and specialty stores and the bill is a good step forward.
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Thank Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of this bill. I struggled in committee and, and had a lot of questions for the good sponsor, but when you look at where we are right now, we have very little control, very little regulation, very few penalties for those that are selling Raum as a, a, a health product from gasoline stores, from from specialty stores, and we have very little control. This is a, a good bill that moves us in that direction. Again, if there's a ban, if there's more stringent regulation, this bill doesn't go into effect. I think it's a great step for us to take this step now and, and keep moving forward. Applaud the good …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Presents HB 195, saying it lets state vendors choose to be paid in gold or silver through a competitive procurement process and noting the state's earlier gold investment.
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Alright. I had this really nice Changing. We've got, uh, the central banks are now moving into gold at rapid rates. The foreign central banks, their number one reserve asset is gold. We've got all kinds of entities that are now switching to alternate payment systems. The bricks, the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, plus about 40 other nations. In December, they announced their own settlement currency called the unit that is 40% gold back. All HB 1 95 does, is very, very simple. The Constitution says States shall make nothing but gold and silver legal tender in payment of debt. It simply has an RFP mechanism where we choose a payment vendor so that vendors and service providers …
H.B. 377 Real Estate Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks why certain funds would not be kept in a real estate trust account and under what circumstances.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, just looking at, uh, lines 9 88 to 9 94 in the sub on the trust account issue. Yes. I, I'm curious, why, why would we not want those funds to be kept in a trust account? What are the circumstances when you wouldn't want those kinds of funds kept in a trust account?
H.B. 377 Real Estate Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks whether the bill removes the security bond requirement for property managers holding funds.
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Thank you. If I may, just a, a follow up on line 9 86, it seems to take away the provision of a security bond. So have, have, are we taking away the security bond requirement that if someone's holding funds as a property manager, that there's not any kind of a security or help me understand that part of that?
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House floor debate (day 28) · Feb 17, 2026
Says the bill is being clarified and addresses confusion about what the bill does not do.
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We're just working on some clarifications. Uh, some confusion on what the bill is not making sure we clarify that.
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Presents the bill, which would give a 5% severance tax credit to qualifying mining operations that pay their tax in gold, for five years for existing mines and 15 years for new mines.
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Uh, Representative Ivory, the time is yours. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Representative Peterson said he would do that in three minutes, and, uh, we'll, we'll make up for the lost time and, and get this through quickly. This is, uh, the bill that you saw last year that didn't get through the Senate. I've got with me our good treasurer, Marlowe Oaks, and then also Brian Summers, the Utah Mining Association. This bill's very simple, and I'll be speaking to the first substitute, uh, first substitute at lines 7 44 describes who a qualified taxpayer is. And when a qualified taxpayer, uh, operates a mine in Utah, that mines gold and rare earth or critical minerals that are defined in …
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says he has not been able to explain how the fiscal note reaches its figure and notes the credit begins in 2028.
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Yeah, I have tried all my life to figure out the magic of fiscal notes fair and, um, haven't quite come there, but I think the fact that this is starting out into 2028, that, that it's out beyond that. And then, you know, what you were talking about the, you've got the offset.
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says he cannot explain the ongoing fiscal note and will get back to the committee after speaking with fiscal analysts.
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Yeah, honestly, Mr. Chair, I, I would be at a loss to, to do that. Um, I'd be happy to get with the fiscal analysts and get back to you though.
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Says the bill would apply only to taxpayers with operations in Utah. · speaker not certain
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We, we could, um, this really would only pay pertain to those that are paying taxes in Utah. So they would have operations in Utah.
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Clarifies that the 5% credit lasts five years for existing mines and 15 years for new mines, and cites national security concerns about rare earth supply.
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Yeah, let get seven. If you look at lines 7 1 2, 7 50 to 7 58. So if you're an existing mining operation, the tax credit is good for five years. The 5% tax credit is good for five years. If you're a new mining operation, you're coming in, you're establishing new mining operations, both gold and rare earth elements, paying your tax in gold, then that credit extends for 15 years. Okay, perfect. And that's where we really, you know, like Brian was talking about, we're one of the top mining, uh, jurisdictions in the world, in the mining industry. And to attract those kinds of jobs and be at the heart of what is very essential to …
H.B. 362 Tax Payments with Gold · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Thanks the member for the motion and cites recent developments in gold-backed currency and gold as a reserve asset as reasons for the pilot.
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Yeah. Thank you for the motion. What was mentioned on the Bricks Plus they announced the first week of December a a, a gold back currency for all of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, about 40 other nations that 40% gold-backed, and then the rest backed by their own currencies. This is moving very quickly. Ray Dalio, who was the head of Bridgewater largest hedge fund in the world, just last week speaking at the World Government Summit, said gold is the, uh, safest money in the world right now. And anyway, we're seeing a lot of change. Money is changing and this just takes a foot in the door to start developing that revenue stream. Appreciate the …
H.B. 119 Automotive Repair Business Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Asked whether lines 99-104 bar insurers from reducing coverage or raising rates when a household member or permissive user causes an accident.
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You. Tha Thank you Mr. Chair. I think I understand the OEM part issue, and I don't know if this relates to the OEM issue or not, but lines 99 to 1 0 4, uh, named where a named insured or person described in one A one. And that seems to address family members, people in the same household bring a claim. The available coverage of the policy may not be reduced or stepped down because permissive, uh, user driving a covered motor vehicle is at fault causing an accident or named insured of the person described, uh, as driving a covered mo motor vehicle is at fault causing an accident. Am I reading that right? If if someone in …
H.B. 119 Automotive Repair Business Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Said the provision appears in the liability coverage section and seems to apply to the entire policy, not just parts.
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Okay. I'm not, I'm not sure if I, if I understood, but, but this provision relates only to whether or not they use OEMP parts or not. 'cause the way I read it, it looks like it, it, it, it goes to the whole policy on whether they can raise rates or reduce coverage for the whole policy. I'm not seeing how it's related to just, oh, 'cause it's under the motor vehicle liability coverage section. Mm-hmm. It seems to relate to the entire policy charges and coverage. And
H.B. 119 Automotive Repair Business Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Noted that this provision seems broader than the OEM focus of the rest of the bill.
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May, may I ask one more question, Mr. Chair? I'm, I'm just curious how this, because it seems like most of the bill, what you're doing is related to the OEM issue, and this seems like a much broader issue that's different than the OEM issue.
H.B. 119 Automotive Repair Business Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Said he hoped to get more clarification during public comment.
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Alright. Okay. I guess we'll see if we get more clarification on the, as we get comment, but thank you.
S.B. 144 Relocation Assistance Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 13, 2026
Moved to adjourn the meeting.
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Uh, yeah, we probably ought to have one more motion. Thank you. Adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Okay.
H.B. 385 Specialized Product Sales Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Moves to pass the first substitute to H.B. 385 out favorably and praises the sponsor's work to protect kids.
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Sure. I'll make the motion that we pass out house bill first substitute house bill 3 85 with a favorable recommendation. Would you like to speak to that? Just appreciate the hard work of the sponsor and, uh, protect kids. Thank
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Rep. Ivory presents HB 405, which would place a one-half percent fee on state purchasing contracts into a restricted reserve account held in gold to preserve purchasing power against inflation, and introduces Kent Beers to explain purchasing.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I don't know if, if the, uh, uh, slide is projecting. Is that, is that on? Uh, it's, it's coming up. There you go. Oh, There we go. Good. When, uh, I, I don't know if, if, if anyone else was here, I mean, Mr. Chairman, you may have been in a different capacity. When Speaker Lockhart was here, as she was, as she was ending her service, and we were, uh, kind of having a farewell meeting with her and, and bringing the new leadership team in, we asked her what advice did she have for the incoming leadership team? And she said, uh, my mother always told me that someday you have to …
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Ivory says the reserve would help the state keep buying power during economic stress and offers to answer questions.
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With that Mr. Chair. I would just say that, um, we all know the benefit of preparation in Utah. We've all been blessed by those things. Maybe the only last question would be why Gold, na Central Banks are, are going into gold in record rates. It is now the number one, the number one foreign reserve asset beyond the dollar even. And, and we've shown that it, it, it holds value over long periods of time that we could even substantially get more units per, per, per the amount that we set aside. And, you know, I, I spend my service up here thinking about what life is gonna be for my grandchildren and and to have those kinds …
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Ivory responds that purchasing centralizes buying for all agencies, that inflation is pressing agency budgets, and that the fee is paid by vendors and is not expected to raise prices.
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It's a great question. Appreciate the question. Um, the nature of our purchasing department is we do centralize purchasing for all of the other agencies. And, and what we're hearing through all the agencies is inflation is starting to rip through their budgets that they're getting less and less and less for the dollars that we give them. We know we're seeing the wage gaps and we're seeing the dollar spending less far and having to increase things. So this is the only agency that does centralize that purchasing where we would hedge inflation on purchases. We've got the rainy day fund for general government things, but in terms of the goods where we're seeing inflation at a rapid rate, …
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Ivory says the evidence shows the fee does not increase costs and that the fee is part of a competitive bid rather than a tax.
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You. May I respond just briefly to that please? Yes. Yeah, the evidence shows that it doesn't increase the cost, but the, to your direct point, it, it's not a tax because it's a competitive bid. No one has to come in and sell goods to the state. It's a completely open competitive bid because it's a competitive bid. They're still trying to compete to get the lowest price. And, and that makes a great distinguish, uh, makes a great distinction.
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Ivory confirms that the fee would be included in certain state contracts.
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Un under this, the, those certain state contracts, yes. It would roll in and, and that fee would be included.
H.B. 405 State Purchasing Reserve Funding · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Ivory says the fee would be a fixed 0.5 percent under the bill unless the legislature changes it.
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Always as we have, yeah, as we have in the bi in, in the bill it would be 0.5%. It's a policy question that we could, It wouldn't fluctuate. Alright. It, it, it would be, you know, the 5% unless the legislature decides to change that. Okay.
H.C.R. 7 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Scenic Byway Designations · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Asks whether there was any record of opposition or dissent during the local approval process.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, curious, is there a record of any dissent opposition as this goes through the process at the local level? Do we know about that at all? I mean, I'm assuming there were public hearings and, and do we know of any opposition, any dissent to any of this?
H.C.R. 7 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Scenic Byway Designations · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Asks whether individual citizens at public hearings voiced opposition.
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Could there have been individual citizens that came to those public hearings that said, Hey, I don't like this. I, I would assume there was probably some of that.
H.C.R. 7 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Scenic Byway Designations · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Asks about the public input process and how opponents could voice objections.
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Thank, thank you, mayor. Just curious, what, what is the process for Citizens on Public Input, and if anyone were opposed to the plan, how do they voice that? How does that work in this process?
H.B. 481 Transportation Modifications · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Moves to adopt the first substitute of HB 481.
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Oh, there we go. Representative Ivory, I make a motion. We adopt first substitute house bill 4 81. Okay. The motion is to adopt the first substitute of house bill four, uh, excuse me, 4 81. Transportation modifications.
H.B. 481 Transportation Modifications · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Moves to pass HB 481 first substitute out with a favorable recommendation.
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And I will make a motion that we pass out with a favorable recommendation. First substitute house bill. 4 81. Okay. The motion is to favorably pass out house bill 4 81. Transportation modifications. First sub.
S.B. 129 Commemorative Day Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 11, 2026
Praises the students and agrees with the motion to hold, encouraging them to take the commemoration request to the governor.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanna applaud the students in what they've done. It's great to see people stepping up and engaging in the people's government and, and certainly to the Senate sponsor for bringing this forward. I think it's a very meaningful, worthwhile, um, undertaking and, and very important, but I, but I have to agree with the maker of the motion that we, we've put in law a process and, and this is the good thing about the process that we have. It's hard to pass a bill because it has to go through so many eyes and both substantively and procedurally. And we did put in a place, in place of process for this. So I, I …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Describes the bill as letting state vendors choose payment in gold and silver electronically or in dollars, and gives his reasoning about the Constitution and the value of money.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, very simple question, what is money may seem to be very simplistic at first glance, but the founders, the framers, took it very, very seriously. Article one, section 10 of the Constitution says, no state shall make anything but gold and silver legal tender in the payment of debt. We did that all the way until 1971 when we got caught with our hand in the cookie jar printing money. And France sent a battleship of doll, uh, loaded with pallets of dollars and said they want the gold. And President Nixon closed the gold window for the United States. From that time forward, the dollar has lost more than 85% of its value. What …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Says the bill is separate from the rainy day fund gold investment, describes the bill as allowing an RFP for a vendor to transact payments in gold and silver, and cites silver coins and minimum wage as an example of money's changing value.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This has nothing to do with the gold that we set aside in the rainy day fund. Excuse me. Under house Bill 3 48. We did that bill and that's up over 80%. We're up over $90 million in less than a year on that investment. This has nothing to do with that. Completely separate. This simply allows an RFP where the treasurer would choose a vendor that would transact payments in gold and silver. Mr. Speaker, just as an example of, of how this democratizes money. Uh, I, I have five quarters that are all pre 1965 quarters. They're 90% silver. And in, uh, 1965, the minimum Representative
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Responds that he is not using a prop, describes silver coins he no longer has, and urges support for the bill to preserve purchasing power.
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I I had in my hand Mr. Speaker. Five silver coins. There were pre 1965, there were 90% silver that I no longer have in my hands in 1965, Mr. Speaker, the minimum wage was a dollar and a quarter. Five of those quarters that I no longer have in my hands, minimum wage was five of those quarters. Those five 90% silver quarters today, Mr. Speaker, more than $75 if we just had this, the money that the Constitution directs, we can save the purchasing power of our earnings and savings. And that's what this bill really gets to. It allows people to have the choice to preserve their earnings and earnings of their, the purchasing power of their …
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked whether prohibiting any product containing kratom extract amounts to a ban.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me see if I can get back to the bill. There we go. Uh, line 79, uh, starting from 69 down CRE process or CRE retailer may not prepare, possess, distribute, sell, offer CRE product that includes any CRE extract. Isn't that ineffective a ban?
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked to confirm that only leaf powder would be allowed.
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Okay. So an extract by definition is something other than just the Pure Leaf powder, is that by saying this, it goes right to just the leaf powder? Is that correct? Okay.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked how to reconcile large increases in poison center calls with a bill that authorizes kratom sales.
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And then how do we, how do we reconcile the, I mean, I'm just, I've looked up a little bit of this in the past. We had hearings over the interim, I mean, dramatic increase in, you know, poison center, CDC calls, uh, I mean like tenfold increase in, in things like that. How do we reconcile that with this bill to tacitly allow and approve or impli not even implicitly, right. That we directly tacit, authorize and, and approve.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked how regulators can tell pure leaf from extracts and how violations would be enforced.
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If I may, one last question. So then how, I guess it, maybe a compound question, but how can we tell the difference between they're using just the Pure Leaf versus an extract? How difficult is that and how do we enforce under this bill, uh, violations, uh, selling adulterating, you know, any of those sorts of things? So
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked how hard it is to tell whether a product is leaf, extract, or a combination.
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And, and for the question, how difficult is it for you to then tell if it's just the leaf or if it's an extract or combination? I mean, how hard is that to,
H.B. 255 Health Care Sharing Ministry Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Said people are often surprised by insurance bills, shared his daughter's experience, and said health sharing ministries and cooperatives help many people.
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I have a comment and then I'll make act, uh, take action. Okay. Okay. I just wanted to say that we are also frequently surprised by bills from insurance companies. When we have insurance, we often don't know what we're going to end up paying. And my daughter's had some closeup and personal experience with that in the last year. And that health shares and cooperatives are very helpful to a lot of people.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked whether kratom should be sold as an over-the-counter pharmacy product to address dosing and contamination concerns.
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Oh, thank you, Mr. Chair. So Senator, it, it seems, in looking at some of the things on this, a couple of the major concerns are dosing and cross-contamination. Would it make sense to have this be like an over the counter product at a pharmacy? I mean, whatever we're doing with dosing, if we're not gonna ban it, it, it seems like having it be at seven 11 next to the five hour energy is probably not the best way to treat trigeminal neuralgia, perhaps, but, but having it, you know, where we can see how it's being dosed and, and verify, you know, other things that are on board with that. 'cause as I'm reading, that seems to …
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Compared it to showing a driver's license to buy pseudoephedrine.
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I mean, I've gotta show what driver's license to get pseudo fed, you know? I mean, it's like, this seems to be yes, you do, you know, as problematic as you know. Yeah.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Said he will support the bill because it regulates sellers in the meantime and becomes void if kratom is banned.
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Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'd like to speak briefly. Um, I'm really confused with, we may be putting the cart before the horse and really understanding danger even of pure leaf kratom. But the fact that the sponsor has, uh, basically the expiration clause in the bill, that if we do have a ban or if it's ever put as illegal, then the bill is of no force. So in the meantime, we would have regulation of sellers with penalties. If it's banned, then it's banned and this goes away. So I think, uh, on that basis, I'll support the bill.
H.B. 245 Construction Wage Standard Act · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked how the bill differs from the federal Davis-Bacon Act, raising concerns about litigation and administrative costs, and asked why a local bid preference would not suffice.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm having a hard time seeing how this isn't just, uh, uh, Davis Bacon by a different name and, and the challenges that we have, you know, Utah County, we did an entire road project and said, we'll just do it with state dollars and did it. I mean, speaker Lockhart used to, used to use that as a great example. We did it like in, I can't remember the number half the time for, you know, three-fourths, the cost, something like that. But why, why wouldn't we just do a local bid preference if we're concerned about out of state companies and, and with this, the, you know, the, all of the different levers that …
H.B. 245 Construction Wage Standard Act · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked again why a local bid preference would not solve the problem.
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So then, if I may, why, why wouldn't a simple local bid preference solve the problem?
H.B. 96 Ivermectin Amendments · House Health and Human Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Said some doctors had trouble getting pharmacies to fill ivermectin prescriptions during COVID-19, and said he thinks over-the-counter sales from a pharmacy are a good idea.
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I just wanted to say that during COVID, I was aware of a handful of doctors who had tried to prescribe Ivermectin for patients with COVI and the pharmacies refuse to fill the, the prescriptions. So there are a lot of problems going on with, for some reason with Ivermectin, I don't know what it is, but, uh, with all the states that are putting it over the counter and all the other countries that are doing it, I'd rather have people buying it from a pharmacy than, than buying it from the, um, from Cal Ranch. So I think it's probably a good idea.
H.B. 245 Construction Wage Standard Act · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Agreed with Rep. Thurston and said the bill's civil and criminal penalties would generate employment litigation and added costs, so he cannot support it.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I Agree with, uh, what Representative Thurston has said that. And then beyond that, I think this is a lawyer retirement program. The civil penalties, the criminal penalties, and the definitions that are there. This is gonna create an entire industry of employment law, I'm afraid in the state that, uh, would just add more cost to it. So I, I can't support this.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Makes a motion to adopt a third substitute for the bill.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. I'd like to make a motion to adopt, uh, third substitute house bill. 1 63 or 1 36
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Moves to adopt a third substitute for the bill.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. I'd like to make a motion to adopt, uh, third substitute house bill. 1 63 or 1 36
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says he has a first substitute online and that the third substitute needs to be drafted and posted.
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I don't have a third substitute. I have a first substitute. Yeah, it should have just gone online. First substitute was there and when the sponsor, uh, changed it to the second sub, they had to draft it as third sub. It should be on the system now.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says he has a first substitute, that the third substitute was drafted after the sponsor's change, and that it should be on the system.
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I don't have a third substitute. I have a first substitute. Yeah, it should have just gone online. First substitute was there and when the sponsor, uh, changed it to the second sub, they had to draft it as third sub. It should be on the system now.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the physical copy is needed before the motion can be adopted.
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So it is online, but I need the physical copy here, um, before we can adopt that.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Supports the third substitute, which would let people denied privilege cards over minor infractions obtain one so the state can identify them and confirm insurance.
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Yeah, just basically, uh, I, I, I applaud and support what this, what the sponsor's trying to do. I had a substitute online when he had the second substitute. We needed to quickly get a third substitute to make a minor change that, uh, simply gets to what the sponsor's, uh, getting to that it allows people to get the driving privilege cards, uh, that have been denied the ability to do that. And if I'm gonna ask you to withdraw that motion, I would Happily withdraw that motion, Mr. Speaker and I would return to the motion to introduce and adopt third substitute House Bill 1 36. Thank you representative. That motion is now in order. I have a …
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Supports the bill and proposes a change allowing people denied driver privilege cards to obtain them, then withdraws the circle motion and returns to adopting the third substitute.
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Yeah, just basically, uh, I, I, I applaud and support what this, what the sponsor's trying to do. I had a substitute online when he had the second substitute. We needed to quickly get a third substitute to make a minor change that, uh, simply gets to what the sponsor's, uh, getting to that it allows people to get the driving privilege cards, uh, that have been denied the ability to do that. And if I'm gonna ask you to withdraw that motion, I would Happily withdraw that motion, Mr. Speaker and I would return to the motion to introduce and adopt third substitute House Bill 1 36.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Explains that the third substitute would let people with certain infractions or out-of-state privilege cards obtain a driver privilege card so the state can identify them and confirm insurance.
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Six? Yes. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, we have a glitch in the system and as the sponsor has introduced this, we've tried to help people that wanted to get driver privilege cards and sometimes they're not able to do that. Uh, well-meaning though, they may be if they had a parking ticket or a speeding ticket in another state, or if they had, uh, a driver privilege card in another state for a host of reasons, it denies them the ability to get the driver privilege card here. And so we want to get as many people to comply with what the sponsor's trying to do, that we know who they are. We know that they have insurance. We …
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says some applicants with infractions or out-of-state history cannot obtain a driver privilege card, and supports the motion so they can get one and be identified and insured.
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Six? Yes. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, we have a glitch in the system and as the sponsor has introduced this, we've tried to help people that wanted to get driver privilege cards and sometimes they're not able to do that. Uh, well-meaning though, they may be if they had a parking ticket or a speeding ticket in another state, or if they had, uh, a driver privilege card in another state for a host of reasons, it denies them the ability to get the driver privilege card here. And so we want to get as many people to comply with what the sponsor's trying to do, that we know who they are. We know that they have insurance. We …
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the third substitute lets people with infractions obtain privilege cards so the state knows who they are and that they have insurance, and urges support.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. The good sponsor. His intent was to get people that are driving without permission. We have a glitch in our driver privilege card that if they have any kind of an infraction, then it suspends and, and, and lengthens the time that they can get the driver privilege card so that we know who they are. We have their id, we have their insurance. This just makes it so they can actually get the driver privilege card to do what the good sponsor wants to do in his bill and would encourage the body support.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the change would let people denied driver privilege cards obtain them, and urges the body to support the motion.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. The good sponsor. His intent was to get people that are driving without permission. We have a glitch in our driver privilege card that if they have any kind of an infraction, then it suspends and, and, and lengthens the time that they can get the driver privilege card so that we know who they are. We have their id, we have their insurance. This just makes it so they can actually get the driver privilege card to do what the good sponsor wants to do in his bill and would encourage the body support.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House floor debate (day 21) · Feb 9, 2026
Says the intent is to identify people driving without permission and urges support for the motion so they can obtain a privilege card.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. The good sponsor. His intent was to get people that are driving without permission. We have a glitch in our driver privilege card that if they have any kind of an infraction, then it suspends and, and, and lengthens the time that they can get the driver privilege card so that we know who they are. We have their id, we have their insurance. This just makes it so they can actually get the driver privilege card to do what the good sponsor wants to do in his bill and would encourage the body support.
H.B. 260 Unauthorized Practice of Law Amendments · House floor debate (day 18) · Feb 6, 2026
Speaks in support of the bill, saying it targets people who hold themselves out as authorized to give legal advice and charge for it, and that it protects vulnerable people from exploitation.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker Proti. My rising support of this bill, uh, to our good friend from Sam, Pete, uh, where I was born. And, uh, love considerably. This does not prevent someone from doing their best to navigate the legal system. What it does do is when someone holds themself out as being able to and being authorized to give legal advice, they hold themselves out as if they were an attorney seeking to represent someone in court, intervening for someone as if they were an attorney. And holding someone self out as an attorney is a term of art that the courts have developed. And so if our good friend from Sam Petee is putting out his shingle …
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Explains the substitute, which pushes the implementation date out a year and has USBE and the Civic Thought and Leadership Institute bring an implementation plan to interim committee, and asks to distribute a handout.
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Thanks, Mr. Chairman. And I'll be speaking to, uh, the substitute, very simple on the substitute. We, uh, working with USBE, we, uh, added a little paragraph at the end to, uh, have, uh, Utah State Board and, uh, with the advice of the Civic Thought and Leadership Institute, bring back to interim education, a, a, a plan, just ideas on how best to implement this, how do we do this most effectively, and bring that back to, uh, to education interim. And then also push the effective date or the implementation date, rather out a year to start in the 28, 29 year. So that's the substitute. Uh, with that Mr. Chair, uh, I've got a handout, if you …
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Describes the spiraling civics approach used in Texas, cites a George Washington quote from the handout, and introduces David Barton to speak.
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Thank you. Uh, a number of legislators, including many that were here, were in a conference in Texas a couple months ago, and, and we learned about Texas is, is doing what they call spiraling civics education. They teach civics every year. And on the handout, you'll see, it's one of my favorite quotes or a favorite quote. I think I have a hundred or a thousand of them. It depends on the day. But George Washington said that, uh, primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government in a republic. What species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty, more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the …
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Says the substitute delays implementation and asks USBE and the Civic Thought and Leadership Institute to bring back a plan on how to implement the bill.
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Platform? Yeah, that's the, that's the, the reason for the substitute. We push back the implementation date and then if you'll look at lines 1 56 to one 60 that, uh, we have USB working with the Civic Thought and Leadership Institute and then come back to education interim and, and, and present, how do we most effectively implement this? But the idea with this bill is we just set out the standard that we believe in self-government. We believe we should study that every year and understand how we self-governed in the United States.
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Confirms the plan will come back to the Education Interim committee on timing, cost, and implementation.
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Sure. And so then that's why we ask them to come back and, and bring a plan to the Education Interim committee on timing and cost and, and how we implement. Exactly.
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Says the sponsor discussed the substitute with both groups, who would work together on a plan.
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Uh, we were discussing with both of them. And so, uh, we had a had a nice discussion that, uh, in doing this, that they would work together and bring back a plan and, and, uh, implementation. So.
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Speaks against the hold, saying the substitute removes time pressure, includes a USBE plan by September, and that the session timeline favors moving the bill now.
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Uh, yeah, I, I appreciate, but I would speak against that. Uh, the substitute pushes the implementation date out to 20 28, 20 29. So we're not racing against any kind of a clock. That's what we worked with USBE on. And then to the other point of implementation and standards, also in the substitute, we have USBE and Civic Thought and Leadership coming back to education interim by September with that implementation plan and allowing them to coordinate and work on what's, uh, what would be the most effective way of implementing that. Uh, and then just lastly, um, having been here for a couple of years, we're already kind of late in the session to get bills moving …
H.B. 312 School Curriculum and Standards Modifications · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Notes the Utah Constitution's language on fundamental principles, urges the committee to move the bill now, and commits to working with others on civics bills.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, not only is that a quote from George Mason, it's article one section 27 of the Utah Constitution. Frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential. Hold on. It says to this, Hold on just a second. We're having a microphone issue here. Let's try that. There we go. Alright, thank you. We good? Yep. We're Good. Thank you. Yeah, That's not just a George Mason quote, which it is, it's a great quote, but it's also Article one, section 27 of the Utah Constitution. Frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential to the security of individual rights and the perpetuity of free government. I don't know how many times we've talked to people and they, …
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Began presenting the first substitute, describing it as a simple bill.
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Okay. Thank you Mr. Chairman. Anyway, and if I can get the, I dunno that, get a slide, uh, projecting up if possible. There we go. Uh, thank you. I'll be speaking to the first substitute. Uh, this bill is very, very simple. And it's interesting the bills that you've already heard, uh, the bill from, uh, Representative Peterson and others where, uh, there was debate about, excuse me,
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Introduced his guests and explained the bill only defines the term social health, already used in state education standards, so it has an observable and objective meaning.
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Yes. Yes. I've got, uh, I've got Todd Kornberg is, uh, principal at Juab High School, right? Juab High School and Julie Sherzinger. And then Dax, uh, Cutler will be, will be speaking briefly to this. Um, it was interesting in that, that prior bill that even the definition of the word conscience was, was debated. And so all this bill does is define the term social health. This is already in use in USBE documents and standards. The term social health is used frequently, but it's not defined anywhere. And, uh, I would like to just, uh, show just a little clip of one of my favorite comedians of all time, Jonathan Winters. This was, this was, I'm Gloria, …
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Invited David Kozlowski for questions and stressed the bill creates nothing new but defines social health as tools to build healthy relationships so it cannot be hijacked.
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Mr. Chairman. Yeah. With that, uh, uh, for committee questions, I'll invite up David Kozlowski, who, uh, is the author of Youth of the Nation and, and, uh, expert, local expert on, uh, social health. I wanna be clear though, this isn't creating something new. There's great things happening and standards that are fantastic that have already been put in place. And so this bill isn't creating this, it's just simply defining that term. So like we heard before, what is conscience and what is not conscience and what is belief and what is not belief? We're just defining what social health is so that we know what it isn't and it can't be hijacked. And so I don't wanna …
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said no, the bill is only a definition.
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That's a great question. I'm glad you asked that. Absolutely. No, this is simply about a definition and see how many different gardens may bloom from it. But we've got those gardens blooming in objective, objective, observable ways.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said the goal is to define the term as tightly as possible and deferred to Mr. Kozlowski.
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Well, I guess what we heard from Representative Peterson's bill, people can spin all kinds of things, but the idea is we're gonna define it down as best we can. Lemme have Mr. Kozlowski take that one. So,
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Added that results at Herriman support the definition and it can be adjusted in future if needed.
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And, and I would just add representative that, that I think some of the proof is in the pudding where, you know, what happened at Herriman and the programs and the definition kind of developed from the kids. But then the other thing I would add is, the great thing about doing things at the state level is if we need to tweak it a little bit going forward, we tweak it going forward, but we lock it down as best we can now. And this has been proven through the, the things that they've been doing over the last decade. And
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said various programs already do this work and asked Mr. Kozlowski to respond.
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Onto. Yeah. I think representative, there are a number of different programs out there doing forms of this and, and they're all kind of coming to the same place. Maybe you can quickly touch on that.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said that language came from last year's H.B. 281 and the substitute returns it to that form.
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We Yeah, that was already there from last year. I think it was House Bill 2 81 and we had proposed to add high school to that, but we took that out. So this just takes it back to what it was from House Bill 2 81 last year.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Explained H.B. 281 called it situational awareness and this bill labels that instruction social health.
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It, it is. And then what it does is, so House Bill 2 81 called it situational awareness and they kind of describe some things in different ways. And so, but it, but it talked about teaching those things and so we're defining that as social health and putting that back in. But that came from House Bill 2 81. And so the definition we're just adding that into what House Bill 2 81 did last year.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said it is existing and the only addition is the social health definition.
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No, that's right. That's existing. And so if you look at section two and you follow it down, the only thing we're adding to section two is the definition of social health. And so then that ties back into what 2 81 last year already had for them to teach.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said that was done by H.B. 281 and this bill only places those items within the definition.
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That's, that's what House Bill 2 81. Yeah, that's what House Bill 2 81 did. And, and, and they didn't really have a definition. They were describing teaching social health and they described a number of things there, but it just takes those and puts that within the definition of social health. That was already, uh, uh, 2 81 to be taught in case
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Said the intent after talking with USBE was to return the language to where it was.
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And that was, that was the intention, right? Originally we thought let's, let's have that go through K 12 and talking with USB. We said, no, let's just put it back where it was. And that's, that's where that went.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Called the amendment friendly, saying it restores the original intent of only locking down the definition.
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No, that's fine. I think the original discussion was to have this as something K 12 and then we thought we put it back to the way it was. Obviously we didn't do that. And so I'm, I'm think it's a, a friendly motion and she's correct. The idea is to lock this definition down so that it can't be, uh, misinterpreted misapplied. So I, I welcome the motion.
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Opposed the motion to hold, saying because the instruction already happens the bill defines it to limit social health to mutually beneficial relationships.
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Tha Thank you Mr. Chair. Uh, yeah, that's exactly the point. It is already happening and because it's already happening, the, the idea of this bill is just to define what is happening so that other things don't happen. We want this to be about mutually beneficial relationships and not about things that we've seen come into schools under the guise of social health. And so there are great things happening. There are standards. This isn't about putting new things into the schools. It's about just like it was amusing to be here for that last bill on, on Representative Peterson's bill when there was this debate over what is conscience and belief. And this is just saying we already …
H.B. 317 Social Health in Public Education Curriculum · House Education Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Supported the motion, saying locking down the definition depoliticizes the topic and focuses on building healthy relationships.
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Appreciate the motion. As you know, this, this diagram is US B'S diagram that, you know, physical, mental, social, and it, it, exactly as the representative said, this is about locking a definition down so that it does depoliticize it. This is about building healthy relationships. It's not about politics, it's not about ideology. It's about helping kids understand how to get along in their community, their family, so they can grow up to self govern and understand how to take our places someday. I would encourage support for the motion. Thank you.
H.B. 217 Stolen Vehicle Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asked whether the bill affects how police prioritize stolen vehicle reports.
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Mr. Chair. And so this deals with people reporting and when they can report it does, does it do anything to the police on how they triage reports that, you know, they're gonna look at the evidence based on their caseload and, and prioritize it, however, they might, it doesn't put any conditions on them, does it? That's,
H.B. 217 Stolen Vehicle Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moved to adopt the first substitute of HB 217.
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I would like to make the motion that we pass out for substitute, oh, do we need to adopt the sub? I make the motion we adopt for substitute house bill two 17.
H.B. 217 Stolen Vehicle Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moved to pass the first substitute of HB 217 out favorably.
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And then if I may, Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion that we pass out for substitute house bill two 17 with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 381 Electric Mobility Device Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks whether the disclosure requirement for sellers of these devices applies only to retail sellers or to any seller.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I think you've done a great job and in cleaning this up and simplifying it a great deal. Um, I'm still just a little uneasy and curious about lines 10 34 to 10 43. It's the disclosure where anyone that sells, uh, a vehicle has to make the disclosure under, you know, some penalty of, I mean, it's infraction and whatnot, but, but to make, I guess maybe I should ask, is that a retail seller or is that any seller at all that sells a a, a vehicle like this?
H.B. 381 Electric Mobility Device Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Says he would be more comfortable if the disclosure applied only to commercial sellers, so individuals who resell a bike are not caught by it.
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Who sat their bike. I think that I'd be, I'd be a lot more comfortable. I just, you know, you have somebody that has no idea, we've done this and doesn't pay attention to our every move up here and, you know, sells a bike that they got and had no idea they have to disclose. I'd just be a little concerned about that. So, I mean, I, I think, uh, you know, if you're willing to look at that and work on that, I think other than that, I'm comfortable with it. Absolutely. And, and
H.B. 79 Governmental Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Asks to put a series of questions to the sponsor.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Will the sponsor yield to, uh, potentially a series of questions?
H.B. 79 Governmental Immunity Amendments · House floor debate (day 14) · Feb 2, 2026
Supports the policy but asks whether the retroactive date could affect lawsuits already filed, pending, or settled.
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Mr. Speaker, I understand the policy, the rationale and I support that. I, I'm curious with a retroactive date going back to 1985, could that potentially upend lawsuits that have already happened? Could it upend lawsuits that are in progress now and what do we do with that? I don't know that I've ever seen a retroactive date going back, you know, many decades and again, support the policy. I'm just curious, how does that work in litigation that may have already settled or may already be pending, uh, prior to the enactment of this?
S.B. 33 Office of Professional Licensure Review Sunrise Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Asked why the sunrise review application is still kept when the related language is struck, and whether a sunrise review would become voluntary.
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Well, it was earlier, but the conversation raises a question in one that is being stricken. It says before the sponsor submits an application for a sunrise review. They do it in the form applicable, but we've strucken all that out. So I'm, I'm, I'm wondering why we still retain an application for a sunrise review when they can just submit the legislation. I mean, is it just voluntary that they can submit a sunrise review if they wish, but, 'cause it's saying before they submit legislation they can do a sunrise review. But we struck that out. So now you don't have to do a sunrise review. You can just submit the legislation. So does that just make sunrise …
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Asked about lines 207-210, confirming the bill does not undo last year's law and asking whether federally guaranteed mortgages would trigger the federal-funding exception.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I want to ask you about lines 2 0 7 to two 10. Um, it says the exemption does not apply to housing that the state or political subdivision owns, operates unless otherwise expressly provided by law. So this doesn't undo what was done in the bill last year. Correct. Okay. And then the, the next sentence, uh, housing where the designation would violate federal law or a condition of federal funding. So most of the mortgages today are guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, have some kind of federal guarantee. Would would that apply to this? And how do we know that it doesn't apply to
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Expressed concern that federal loan guarantees could be used to undo the exemption.
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Okay. Yeah. I'm just concerned. 'cause some of the things we've seen in the past that, you know, sadly we've got federal government under either flavor or color takes the smallest opening and tries to move in. I'm just concerned that condition of federal funding, if Fannie, Freddie, if there are loan guarantees, they may try to apply and say, you know, you see what I'm saying? And then undo the
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Encouraged the sponsor to look into the issue since federal entities guarantee most residential loans.
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Okay. I I would just maybe encourage we look at that as it moves forward. Yeah. Um, because they do, they guarantee almost all loans for any type of residential small business housing.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Began returning to his earlier question.
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Yeah, I mean, I think back to the Question I had earlier. Just a second.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said federal nondiscrimination law covers most housing, so the bill may do little and create a false sense of security, and urged further study.
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Right. Thank you. Back to the question I had earlier, and I think, uh, uh, to, uh, representative Thurston's point, the federal non-discrimination laws a apply to most residential housing, unless it's like a shared owner situation or you've got shared, uh, like bathroom space, but it, it, it does apply HUD funding, government sponsored entity funding, Fannie, Freddie, that sort of thing. At least this is what crock and, and, uh, chat GPT are telling me on the fly. But it, but it kind of makes sense. So I think to Representative Thurston's point, I'm, I'm concerned that we may not really be doing that much if we're saying it only applies unless federal law applies and federal law …
H.B. 268 Towing Notice and Ownership Rights Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Moved to pass H.B. 268 out of committee with a favorable recommendation, with no substitute or amendment.
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Uh, no substitute, no amendment right. I'll make a motion that we pass out house bill 2 68 with a favorable recommendation.
H.B. 268 Towing Notice and Ownership Rights Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Spoke in support of the motion, citing a personal experience of being towed in South Carolina and saying towers should follow the law.
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Good policy. Representative Thompson and I were on a federalism trip to South Carolina and we parked where everyone was parking, and we were in there for about 10 minutes and we came out and they were just towing cars as fast as they could go. And they had a tiny little sign down on the ground behind where the cars park on the street that you could never see. And $300 later, that was a very expensive ice cream. So I think, I think we should have them follow the law. So support the motion.
H.B. 203 Non-Compete Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Ivory asked where the $155,000 threshold came from and raised concerns about the total ban on non-competes for independent contractors who receive trade secrets.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ms. Skolnik, uh, my go-to if I have employment law questions and, and happy to hand them off, and thank you for your help over the years. Uh, I'm, I, I understand the rationale for almost all of the bill. I'm, I don't understand the 155,000 where that came from, but more specifically, uh, number three, subsection three, a person may not enforce non-compete, uh, against an independent contractor, period. So, I mean, I can envision situations. I've been in situations where you, you employ a, an independent contractor to design a special piece of equipment and they work for years and you give them all of your secrets and you work for them. And then …
H.B. 203 Non-Compete Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Ivory asked whether the specific number was derived from something.
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Yeah. I'm just wondering if the number where that specific number came from, was that related to something derived from something
H.B. 203 Non-Compete Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Ivory asked whether there is a salary threshold the Chamber would find workable.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was gonna, Oh, sorry. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was gonna ask the prior witness, um, if No, go ahead. She felt like the $155,000 number should be altered and different. Um, you talked about applying it to 90% of the workforce. Is there a number on that salary, uh, component that you feel would be more workable?
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Presents HB 195 as allowing the state to pay vendors in precious metals through a competitive procurement, citing gold's rising value, state vaulting and audit standards, and tax treatment of gold.
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Thank. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let's, do I need to hit this Or No, just pull up, pull up closer to your face. All right. There we go. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, in honor of our former colleague, representative, now, Senator Stratton, I brought a can of peaches that, uh, has a little hideaway thing, and, uh, if you promise to not stick it in any bags, I'll pass some of these around and you can, you can just see. And then, uh, I also have a handout. Mr. Chairman, if I might know if you would take that, please. Oh, thank you. Yes, you can pass that out. So, um, what's being passed around will give you an …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Explains that HB 348 allowed up to 10% of the rainy day fund in gold and that this bill is separate, involving only transfers of dollars that vendors receive as gold.
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Thank you. House Bill 3 48 allowed the state to invest up to 10% of our rainy day fund in gold. The treasurer has done that and, and we've done well with that. That's completely separate. Yeah. That has nothing to do with this other than they're both gold. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, and this then is totally separate. Doesn't affect that the state has dollars in various accounts and a vendor that chooses to receive gold, the state simply takes some of those dollars, puts it in the account, or the app and hits send, and the vendor receives gold on the other end.
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Says the rainy day fund investment has grown from about 109 million to nearly 200 million in under a year, which helps Medicaid and other expenses.
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Thank you. And, and actually, if I may, those that are concerned about that should be delighted that we invested that amount in the rainy day fund, and we've turned 109 million into, probably close to 200 million in less than a year. And so, and that helps the Medicaid and all the other expenses that we have.
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Says gold rose from about 2200 on the effective date of HB 348 to around 5,300 to 5,600, more than doubling the investment.
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It's hard to say definitively because Gold's been going up very rapidly because of some of the things happening in the world. Like we said, foreign nations, they're, they're, they're abandoning treasuries very rapidly into gold. But we've gone from, so on the effective date of 3 48, May 1st price of gold was 2200. Today, it went as high as 5,600. I think it's around 5,300 maybe right now. So we've more than doubled from when the effective date of the bill.
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Argues the bill matters most for lower-income people, using the example of pre-1965 silver quarters and how their value has risen relative to the minimum wage.
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Just briefly, I wanna bring this back. Why it matters for everyone, and especially the, the lowest socioeconomic level. They get hit the hardest with the debasement of our money. And just a quick example, I've got three quarters that were minted before 1965. They're 90% silver, right? They quit, they quit making silver quarters in 19 65, 19 65. The minimum wage was a dollar and a quarter. So five of these, I need to get two more to make the example really work, but, but five of these was the minimum wage. Do you know what five of these are worth today? A hundred dollars. A hundred dollars. If we talk about minimum wage and housing affordability and …
H.B. 195 Precious Metals Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Thanks the chair and offers an update on gold and silver prices for the record.
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Mr. Chairman. And, and just for the record, um, well, my co-chair wants to an update. That gold closed it. Uh, I'll, I'll let him say it. 5,400 today. And by the way, silver is at one 15, so, oh my goodness. Those silver quarters are a lot more than what you just said.
H.B. 173 Disabled Parking Permit Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Jokes about a possible conflict of interest given future pregnancies in his family and says his wife would have used the permit when pregnant.
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Thanks, Mr. Chair. Representative, I need to know if this isn't a blatant conflict of interest for all the cute kids you're gonna continue having. So my wife's currently not pregnant, so she can't get the pass, but she would've loved to use this when she was pregnant. We're expecting more and we wanna hold them, you know, the grandpa duty. So you let us know.
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Asked how the bill's alternative curriculum pathway, with hours different from the national board, would be certified.
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Alright. Thank you, Mr. Vice chair. So I'm looking at the National Certification Board, the N-C-B-A-H-M, and their educational requirements show, uh, 705 hours, 870 hours, uh, on acupuncture. Um, and so I'm curious, you, you've got an OR in the bill, so you do the national certification board, acupuncture, herbal medicine, or so, so the board has, you know, the 800 hours, 700 hours, but then the, OR is submit evidence of completing a curriculum that is at least two years, 450 hours of instruction, 75 hours, you know, 500 hours of instruction. How does someone, I mean, they, they submit anything? I mean, is there any kind of certification? They just submit it on their own? 'cause if …
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Asked where the hour standards came from and who would certify competency if not the national board.
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I, yeah, just a couple things. I mean, the hours are different than the national board that's referenced, and so, you know where those standards came from, and then who would certify it. So if it's not the national board who actually certifies it, and how do we know that they're competent to certify this or path?
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Asked why the bill singles out East Asian medical theory when the national board site does not.
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Okay. And, and the other question I had was on the National board site, it doesn't say anything specific about East Asian Medical Theory. It just goes into acupuncture. And so I'm not sure why we would single out East Asian Medical Theory if it's acupuncture that's not East Asian. Is that not Okay? Uh,
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Noted a duplicate phrase on line 48 and said he remained concerned about the alternative pathway.
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Okay. Yeah, I, I think I'm looking at that site and I'm, I'm not seeing that, but that, uh, I guess we can sort that out. The other, the other thing is just, uh, grammatical on line 48, you've got meets any other requirements the division makes by rule, the division makes in accordance with that. Probably need to take out the division makes, you've got a duplicate there. So Line 48 something Yeah. On line 48. Okay. But we can do that later, but yeah. Okay. I'm just, yeah, I'm still concerned about the OR path, but that's
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Asked about the potential injuries and severity of harm from acupuncture.
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Yeah. Thanks. Just one, one last bite at the apple here. Um, c could you speak to, to injuries? What, what's the potential harm from acupuncture? I mean, that, that, obviously, you know, it doesn't happen all the time, but to know the severity of potential injury, to know what it is that we're authorizing. Could you speak to that?
H.B. 202 Acupuncturist Licensing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Asked whether single-use needles are required in code.
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Uh, are, are the single use needles? I mean, I don't see that in this code. Is that required somewhere that,
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he supports the goal but described people who want driver privilege cards and cannot obtain them, and was hesitant to punish people for something they cannot help.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah. Representative. We've, we've talked and, and I, I mean, I totally support what you're trying to get at. Um, I, I served in a Spanish speaking church congregation and, and we had people from all over Latin America. And, you know, people that love this country, many of them don't know any other country. And, and, you know, they've been here since before they knew anything before they could talk. And yet they don't have the IDs. And, and we've been talking through this whole process and we're like trying to get 'em our driver privilege card and we can't do it. And, and so, you know, I mean, I've got one example of, of …
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked whether the sponsor would consider an amendment, saying the privilege card criteria look simple on paper but do not work that way in practice.
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Yeah. I mean, I completely agree with you. We wanna make sure they know. But there are people that do know that they don't speak any language other than English. Right. And, and yet we still can't get them an id. Would you be open to an amendment possibly to see, you know, we give it the driver's license people and see what we can do. Because if you read, I've got the driver privilege criteria here, and it seems when you read it very simple when you apply for it, it doesn't work that way.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he did not want to slow the bill down and noted there is still time to open bills.
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'cause just, I mean, I agree with, but I don't wanna stop down the slow down the process. Yeah, sure, sure. Of this bill right now, and I know there's still time to open bills.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said the state wants to know who is driving but currently does not let those people identify themselves, and noted it is not too late to open a bill.
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But, but I do agree. We want to know who's driving on our streets. And right now we don't know that because we're not allowing them to let us know who they are, which just seems counterintuitive. But yeah. Anyway, I appreciate, thank you. Yeah, I was just gonna say thank you, Mr. Chair. It's not too late to open a bill.
H.B. 136 Unlicensed Driver Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he would vote no because the bill may capture people who are trying but cannot obtain credentials, and offered to work with the sponsor toward a yes vote on the floor.
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Yeah, I, uh, am afraid, I agree with my good colleague, uh, minority leader that, um, and we agree on a lot of things, but, but it is, uh, I just, I, I really like what you're doing. I'm afraid we're capturing people in and completely unintentionally not the people that you're trying to get, that we should get to, but there's a, a number that just, they can't do anything about it, even though they're trying and they hire a lawyer to try to help them to try, and they still can't get there. That just, I, I, I struggle with that. I think I'm a no vote. I want to work with you. See if we can work …
H.B. 120 Tail Light Obstruction Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked how the bill applies to bicycles and whether it covers vehicles generally.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm just trying to figure out how you herd sheep with a bicycle. I'm just trying to picture that in my Mind. So, you know, uh, these are some of the, the, the, what situations i, I run into up here when I explain something, I don't really, uh, understand how my audience is going to going to, uh, relate me and what I'm saying. So, uh, uh, I actually have never heard of the sheep on a bicycle, so I couldn't probably answer that question very well. He's probably got a picture. We'll see it here soon. I'm curious, so you're, you're speaking to bicycles, but this looks like it applies to any vehicle. What
H.B. 120 Tail Light Obstruction Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked why the bill uses a 500-foot distance.
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Okay. And then I'm just curious, 500 feet, why, why that Distance? Well, you know, that's what our reflectors are required on, like our semi trailers and stuff like that, so. Okay. Um, that's, that's a practical distance. We already got the standard there. I just wondered if that was how far a metal arc flies or,
H.B. 120 Tail Light Obstruction Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Suggested reflective triangles for livestock being transported on open range. · speaker not certain
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So representative, I understand, I was just told that the license plate part of your question was already in law, so, and my recommendation is that you get little reflective triangles for your sheep.
H.B. 120 Tail Light Obstruction Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked whether the photos were ready and suggested moving to public comment.
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Okay. Thank you. Uh, you still working on the pictures, right? How about if we go to public comment and tell those come up?
H.B. 178 School Zone Speeding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked the sergeant how courts coordinate with schools and law enforcement under the bill's language.
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Yeah, I'd just like to ask the, the sergeant a question, if I may. Um, I, I'm curious on lines 45 to 54 H, how, how does that mechanically work? A court may impose, uh, order an individual subject to a fine to perform service if the court is coordinated with a local school and an applicable law enforcement agency. And the offense, you know, goes on with the, is this already happening where courts are coordinating with schools and with law enforcement? How, how, how does that mechanically work? Who does that? How does that get coordinated?
H.B. 178 School Zone Speeding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked how a court would coordinate with a school and with law enforcement.
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Okay. Yeah, I'm just trying to, so, so a judge orders it, but then it's gotta go through the process and it says if the court is coordinated with a local school. And so I'm just, I'm trying to figure out how does the court then go coordinate with the school and then go coordinate with law enforcement to, to do this? I'm not,
H.B. 178 School Zone Speeding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked who at the court or school would make the coordination contact and how a judge would arrange it.
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Right. No, I, I mean, I understand that, but you know, how, so do they call the principal? Do they call the superintendent? Do I mean, if it's not in there, then I'm just curious how a judge then, does the judge put their caseload aside and go to try to coordinate to find someone at the school, but we may not know who that is and someone with law enforcement. Mm-hmm. If there's not a kind of a procedure already mm-hmm. Then I'm not sure who calls whom to coordinate.
H.B. 178 School Zone Speeding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Asked whether the sponsor had talked with the courts about how the coordination would work.
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Okay. Representative, have, have you talked to, to Michael d Dressel from the courts to kind of see how they would process this coordination?
H.B. 178 School Zone Speeding Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he is glad the courts have a process and thanked the sponsor.
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No, that helps you. I mean, if the court knows how they're gonna do it, then that's, that's great. It just seems like, you know, I'm just picturing a judge putting their caseload aside to go figure out who to find and what to do. But sounds like they have it set up. So that's great. Thank you. Excellent question.
H.B. 85 State Sovereignty Amendments · House floor debate (day 4) · Jan 23, 2026
Says the bill clarifies that Utah is a sovereign state responsible for the health and safety of its people, and urges support.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker Pro Tim, uh, our, our new friend. The comments of our new colleague, uh, might have missed a lot of the things that transpired in our state over the last four or five years and, and we can certainly give him a pass for that. We experienced a, a number of issues where we had international bodies instructing our state on how to care for the health, the welfare, the safety of our people, and, and the pressure on our state was tremendous in a very serious situation. And sadly, uh, a good colleague sponsor used the word federalism and we're sadly seeing this wild swing from one administration to another, that that, uh, as an …
H.B. 13 Municipal Services Fees and Political Subdivision Lien Amendments · House floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Asks the sponsor to yield to a series of questions.
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Thank Mr. Speaker. Will the sponsor yield to potentially a series of questions? Representative Cutler, will you continue to yield to a series of questions? I,
H.B. 13 Municipal Services Fees and Political Subdivision Lien Amendments · House floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Asks whether legal, recording, and enforcement costs are covered by the 8 percent cap and who bears them.
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Sponsors is indeed a good sport. We got red meat on the first day of the session. Uh, couple questions that I have. Mr. Speaker, uh, potentially in filing a lien, there can be legal costs and filing a lien. You have to then record the lien with the recorder, and those are additional costs, potentially attorney's fees to prepare the lien, uh, attorney's fees or other costs and costs to release the lien. Is that added into this with the 8% cap? My understanding is that is not, that, that is the purpose of that 8%. Uh, and my understanding is that service districts and municipalities have the ability to do this. They typically do this in batches. Uh, …
H.B. 13 Municipal Services Fees and Political Subdivision Lien Amendments · House floor debate (day 1) · Jan 20, 2026
Says a lien must be enforced to be useful and asks how wrongful liens and their effect on property sales would be handled.
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I, I understand the, the nature of the answer, Mr. Speaker, but the nature of putting a lien on real property is so that you've got an interest in that bundle of sticks, and the way you get your interest out of that lien is to execute. Otherwise, there's, you know, if it's just a matter of, you know, you pay off debts, and debts get paid off, then why have the lien? Because you have the lien, because you're ostensibly gonna execute on the lien. And, and then I, I guess my, the last question I have is, um, what if the lien is wrongfully put on the property? Because that happens. And when you've got a wrongful lie, …
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