Ashlee Matthews

• H.B. 531 Scarification Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Said the Senate wanted the LER to review the profession to see whether it needs additional guardrails.

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  Sure. Um, the Senate felt more comfortable given the, uh, nature of the beast, so to speak, if, uh, LER would take a look at this profession and see if it's something that needed, um, additional guardrails.

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• S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves the previous question to end debate on the bill.

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  Thank you, Madam Speaker Pro Tim, uh, call the question, previous question has been called, which effectively ends debate.

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• S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves to call the previous question, which would end debate.

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  Thank you, Madam Speaker Pro Tim, uh, call the question, previous question has been called, which effectively ends debate.

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• S.B. 229 State Employee Benefits Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Asks how the bill would affect current employees who keep the current leave track if they are promoted or take another position.

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  Um, I'm, I'm wondering, uh, Mr. Speaker, when we, when we switched over to the at will, uh, track, I guess if you will, um, we, we did something similar to this where, um, employees that were, um, on one on one benefits package, I guess were, were grandfathered in unless they were promoted or moved to another position. And I'm wondering, um, how this bill would, um, would impact those that are current employees that have chosen to stay on the current, um, sick leave, annual leave track, but if they were to, um, get a promotion or take another position within the state.

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• S.B. 297 School Social Worker Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Restates the motion to pass the first substitute of S.B. 297 favorably.

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  I would stand by my original motion to pass out favorably the first substitute of SB 2 97. And I guess you spoke to that motion. I sure did. Okay.

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• S.B. 297 School Social Worker Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Comments that removing intern opportunities could hurt efforts to add workers needed to meet licensure hours and leaves the decision to the committee.

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  Um, I, I'll leave it up to the committee, but I, I, if we wanna keep billing the bench, so to speak, and, and making sure that, that, uh, the people that are going to school to, to fulfill these requirements if we're not giving them the opportunities to get the, the clinical hours and the, the studying hours that we require them to get in order to obtain their license. Uh, I don't know. I, whatever. Whatever you want.

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews explained that the bill, refiled from last year and narrowed after Rep. Cutler's e-bike legislation, treats mini or pocket motorcycles like regular motorcycles and gives law enforcement discretionary enforcement authority over minors.

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  Thank you. Chair and committee. I apologize. I was gonna wait to see if I could vote, but I think they're running too behind. Okay. Um, thank you for letting us be here today. This bill's very easy, I think, but usually whenever you say that, um, I was gonna say, don't One senator in particular, I think sitting over there has a really good way of, of making easy bills. I, I had, I had a se I had a Senator Cullimore one time show up to a house committee that I was chairing say, this is the perfect bill and there's nothing you could do to mess it up. Oh, that's a dare. I would never, it didn't, …

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said rural members worried that 14-year-olds riding mini motorcycles to school or work could be cited by officers.

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  The, uh, from the ones that I talked to, if you look at 'em, they're, they're mostly the, they're rural, they're rural folks. Um, they, they were worried that if, if, uh, an officer was having a cranky day and, uh, there were, there were 14 year olds that were driving their mini motorcycles to work or to school or to their friend's house, that, that they could be used against them. But, um,

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said the bill uses permissive language to give police a tool, describing groups of minors on mini bikes damaging parks and fleeing officers in Kearns despite citations and confiscations.

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  Um, well by, by putting things as a may and not a shall, we were hoping to give law enforcement a tool to be able to, to utilize it when necessary. Um, I know in my community and, and in a couple of our other communities, um, we have, this sounds ridiculous, I don't laugh, but like biker gangs of kid, like 14-year-old kids on these mini bikes, um, driving around in the parks and on streets, they're fleeing from officers. They are, um, destroying like the parks ripping up the grass. And, and, um, and so for, for law enforcement, you know, they're, they're trying not to, um, they're not going to pursue a a 14-year-old that's fleeing from …

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said the groups have social media accounts and offered to send information.

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  You know, I will send you, um, this Van, the Van Buren Boys, the Buren boys, The, uh, They call Billy clubs and do stuff. Yeah. I think I saw something about Brammer twins. I don't, I don't know if that was, but, um, but there are, there are social media accounts. They are, they are very proud of themselves.

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews agreed to send it.

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  I would be so happy to send that to you. Alright. As long as you promise not to laugh.

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews asked whether the question related to line 708.

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  I would say. Are you referring Senator? Oh, sorry, Mr. Chair. Um, is the question pertaining to like line 7 0 8?

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said motor assisted scooters are excluded and the goal is that mini bike riders be licensed and helmeted, noting people with DUI-revoked licenses had used them to get around.

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  Motor vehicle does not include a motor assisted scooter. No, I get that. So, So yeah, we're, we, we try not to, not to mess with that. We don't wanna, we don't want our jails to be full of 14-year-old kids, of course. You know, but, um, but yeah, we we're just trying to make sure, or maybe we are, I don't know. But we just wanted to make sure that when appropriate, the law enforcement has the ability to, to follow the same set of rules and to treat these minibikes the same way as they would a regular motorcycle. So that, um, so that we don't have 14 year olds on them. Um, so that they're people that …

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said the intent is not to include e-bikes, which Rep. Cutler's bill covers, but that gas or battery mini motorcycles would be included.

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  Right. Uh, I, that's not the intent, so I hope not. Um, from my recollection, the clarification that we put in there, um, was because as I mentioned earlier, the, the bill that came through before, um, that Representative Cutler did, that created a framework and structure and the different, um, classifications for these powered vehicle for e-bikes and for scooters and all these types of things, um, that those were all sucked into that framework, into that category. So we were just specifying that. Yeah. It the, for these many motorcycles and any motorcycles, if they are run by, by gas or, or battery or whatever other ways that you can power, power, such things that tho they would …

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• H.B. 561 Use of Motorized Vehicles by Minors Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Rep. Matthews said she did not have the number but it passed early in the session.

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  Yes, it was, um, gosh, I'm sorry. I feel so unprepared. I don't have that number, but, but it, it passed, I wanna say the first three or four weeks of session,

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