Legislators / Hoang Nguyen
Hoang Nguyen
Democrat · House District 23
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- Email: hnguyen@le.utah.gov
- Phone: 801-538-1029
- Office: 350 N State Street, Suite 350, Salt Lake City, UT, 84114
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Hoang Nguyen serves on:
- Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee
- House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee
- House Revenue and Taxation Committee
- Business and Labor Interim Committee
- Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee
- Legislative Water Development Commission
What they've said
55 remarks on 17 billsS.B. 244 Cardiac Emergency Response Plans in Schools · House Health and Human Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Asks whether local education agencies must also develop emergency response plans for respiratory, diabetic, and injury emergencies.
▶ Watch at 1:35:59Read what they said
I, um, representative Nu Yep. Um, thank you. Just curious to know, do we also require LEAs, uh, to develop any other emergency response plans for, for respiratory emergencies, for diabetic emergencies, for, you know, traumatic falls or playground injuries?
S.B. 276 Veteran Organization Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Moved to pass SB 276 out of committee with a favorable recommendation.
▶ Watch at 23:10Read what they said
Uh, I would like to go ahead and move that we pass out SB 2 76 with a favorable, favorable recommendation.
H.B. 597 Alcohol Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Moved to adopt Amendment 3 to H.B. 597.
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I'm sorry. We did, we have, I just lost my screen. Uh, just a reminder, we need to adopt a, a substitute or amendment. I mo make a motion to adopt the first Amendment. Third. Third amendment. Third amendment. Sorry, I lost my screen here. Motion to adopt the fir third amendment.
H.B. 386 Immigration Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Asks the sponsor of the substitute to yield.
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Thank you, Mrs. Speaker. We'll, the, uh, sponsor of the sub yield Representative, Lee, will you yield?
H.B. 386 Immigration Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Asks the sponsor to yield to a question. · speaker not certain
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Thank you, Mrs. Speaker. We'll, the, uh, sponsor of the sub yield Representative, Lee, will you yield?
H.B. 386 Immigration Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Shares his family's refugee story and the programs that helped them, and urges opposition to the substitute.
▶ Watch at 1:24:21Read what they said
You, Mrs. Speaker. I'm gonna take a moment here 'cause this is, this is important. As many of you know, or some of you may not miss the speaker. I, I've gotten to know some of the folks in this body well and some others not as well. I don't like to really share my story as much unless I'm asked to share it. And I think it's really germane to what's happening in the sub right now. Many of you might not know that. When I was elected to represent in to serve this term of 2025 to 2026, I made history in Utah. When I did that, I made history by becoming the first Vietnamese American ever elected …
H.B. 386 Immigration Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Shares his family's immigration and refugee history and urges members not to support the substitute. · speaker not certain
▶ Watch at 1:24:21Read what they said
You, Mrs. Speaker. I'm gonna take a moment here 'cause this is, this is important. As many of you know, or some of you may not miss the speaker. I, I've gotten to know some of the folks in this body well and some others not as well. I don't like to really share my story as much unless I'm asked to share it. And I think it's really germane to what's happening in the sub right now. Many of you might not know that. When I was elected to represent in to serve this term of 2025 to 2026, I made history in Utah. When I did that, I made history by becoming the first Vietnamese American ever elected …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presented HB 240 as a public safety bill for large carbon dioxide tanks that would let third parties be certified through a program run by the state fire marshal.
▶ Watch at 1:19:30Read what they said
Good afternoon, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon committee. Thank you for taking the time to, uh, hear this bill. So, HB two 40 carbon dioxide amendment was brought to me by our Fire Marshal Association. We are with this carbon dioxide. We are talking about the big tanks, the ones that are over a hundred pounds. We're not talking about the smaller ones in restaurants that are less than that. I just wanna make that very clear right now. Um, this bill is about public safety, employee safety, and making it more expedient for businesses who do have these large carbon dioxide tanks to get, um, certified. So, so they can move on with their business. So what this addresses is …
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked where kratom should be sold if not in age-restricted, regulated smoke shops.
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Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. If a smoke shop where it's regulated to make sure that, uh, uh, only 21 and over can have access to it, if that's not the right place to sell it, where would the correct place be? Excuse me. You, you just made the comment that you said you do not want to go to a smoke shop to have to buy this. So if a smoke shop where it's regulated, where it requires you to have a proper id, a valid ID to be 21 and over to purchase it at the smoke shop,
S.B. 45 Kratom Adjustments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked whether a regulated online option would work for her.
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Got, I got it. Okay. Thank you. Is it, is it possible to reg to do a regulation, but make it available online? Sure.
H.B. 484 Property Tax Changes · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said truth-in-taxation is being made more transparent and that capping property tax would hinder local elected officials' ability to fund city operations.
▶ Watch at 1:16:59Read what they said
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, I have a couple of comments, really. So, we recently in the house passed a bill by representative Corinne Peterson that made it so that the, um, truth and taxation process is more transparent in the passed 72 0, now it's in the Senate for consideration. And that was an important legislation to make sure that that, uh, constituents, that people who live in the communities know when, when, and why taxes are being raised and get to give their public comment when it comes to property tax. That is the only taxing control that cities, uh, have to be able to really control, you know, have for their budget, generate funds to pay for …
H.B. 294 Employer Verification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said protecting identities is important and that the bill, which lowers the threshold from 150 to 100, is one of several identity theft bills.
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Thank you. Thank you, representative Wynn. Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. And I thank you for bringing this bill forward. I know that, you know, our children's identity absolutely is paramount. There are a lot of bills out there right now that do tackle identity theft, and I think those are warranted. Those are needed to make sure that not just our children, but any, any citizens, any Utahans identities are protected with this bill lowering the amount from one 50 to a hundred.
H.B. 294 Employer Verification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said trade associations would not speak against the 150 threshold, that 150 is working to address identity fraud, and that the bill is an unfunded mandate without enforcement teeth.
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Yes, I would. Thank you. In the conversations I've had with a lot of different trade associations and business commerce chambers, a lot of them said they, you know, out of respect, they would not come speak against it. They do not want to see the numbers change from one 50. They believe that at one 50 it is doing the job it needs to do to really, um, to clamp down on, on, uh, fraudulent uses of, of identity. So, and at one 50, it wouldn't hinder some of these small businesses. And I, if we are looking to really fix identity theft, I would more than welcome more, more policies looking into how we can strengthen that in …
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · Senate Education Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Presented the bill, which requires schools to notify parents within 30 days of a failed vision screening and lets nonprofit screening partners send a same-day letter about financial help for follow-up care.
▶ Watch at 1:18:21Read what they said
Thank you, Mr. Chair and Thinking committee. Hopefully this one will move a lot faster for you guys here. Um, HB 33 51, a school vision screening amendment. It's a simple bill. It does two things. Well, let me give a little context. Right now. As many of you know, in schools, we require children to get a tier one vision screening, which is a great thing. That's where we're able to, for a lot of families. Some of these kids is their first vision screening ever, and we're able to catch kids early on to see and diagnose if there is a potential issue, uh, where we mandate our schools to do this. School nurses are not able to …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents the bill, which would let the state fire marshal create a program for third parties to certify installations of large carbon dioxide systems, citing public safety for businesses.
▶ Watch at 1:07:55Read what they said
Thank you. HB two 40 Carbon Dioxide Amendment is a bill that will allow state fire marshals to be able to create and, uh, create a program where third parties can come in to certify the bulk, uh, big systems that, uh, have the carbon dioxide dispensers. So a lot of us know we love our fizz and sewage companies, those companies that do high volume carbon dioxides. They have these huge tanks that have to be installed and certified by, by a license, uh, group right now, currently Utah is one of the last states that requires fire marshals to come in and do these installations and certifications. This bill will make it so that fire marshals can create …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Says manufacturers do not inspect these tanks, and businesses must hire another company to install and certify them.
▶ Watch at 1:10:04Read what they said
No, the manufacturers who make these products are not allowed to inspect them. They just manufacture and they're a vendor that sells it to these companies. And the company has to use another company to come and do the installation and certify that's installed properly.
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Says manufacturing inspection occurs before delivery to businesses, to confirm units meet required code.
▶ Watch at 1:10:27Read what they said
That would be on the manufacturing before it gets delivered to these businesses to use them to make sure that their manufacturing processes are done correctly into whatever code is required for those units.
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Says Utah is one of the last states using fire marshals for these inspections, and the bill would let other certifiers take over that work.
▶ Watch at 1:11:07Read what they said
So we're one of the last field states, Mr. Speaker, that currently still uses our fire marshals to come and do these inspections. By putting this in statute to make it so these fire marshals can create the program to certify other units, other parties, other vendors who come and certify it, it is essentially taking it out of the requirement by our fire marshals to have to do these, these inspections.
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Says OSHA does not inspect these bulk tanks and that the bill concerns installation and certification rather than workplace safety.
▶ Watch at 1:11:31Read what they said
This is osha do any type of inspections on these tanks. OSHA is for this type of tank that we're talking about where it's the bulk CO2, it comes delivered as a liquid and it, when it's dispensed, it's dispensed as a gas. This doesn't necessarily have to do with workplace safety of it, it has to do more with just the installation and certification of the actual units itself.
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Summarizes that the bill is supported by the Utah Fire Chiefs and the Fire Marshals Association of Utah, and that it will free up fire marshals' reach.
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Thank you Mrs. Speaker. This bill is supported by Utah Fire Chiefs Fire Marshals Association of Utah and the Joint Joint Council, Ophir Service Organization. This is a bill I think is needed and it really, like the other speakers have said it will free up the reach of our fire marshals. So thank you.
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 17, 2026
The sponsor said the bill goes beyond protecting lawful gun owners by expanding legal immunity for manufacturers and sellers, making it harder for victims to bring claims, and requiring early dismissal of cases, and urged the committee to reconsider and find a better balance.
▶ Watch at 32:57Read what they said
I respect the Second Amendment, and I also believe that rights come with responsibility. This bill goes beyond protecting lawful gun owners. It expands legal immunity for manufacturers and sellers, and makes it significantly harder for victims to even bring a claim. It requires courts to dismiss cases early unless they meet extremely narrow conditions. And if a family's case is dismissed, they could be forced to pay the defendant's attorney fees, the manufacturer's attorney fees. This should give us pause. No industry in America should receive special protection from accountability, especially when negligence contributes to the harm. We hold car manufacturers accountable. We hold pharmaceutical companies accountable, cigarette companies accountable. The firearms industry should not be uniquely shielded from …
H.B. 470 Building Inspection Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Nguyen asked whether Utah has historically had delays in getting permits reviewed and approved.
▶ Watch at 59:06Read what they said
Thank you. Mr. Chair here in the state of Utah, historically, is there issues or delay with being able to get these, uh, permits revealed and approved?
H.B. 313 Landscaper Certification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Moved to favorably pass out the first substitute to H.B. 313 as amended.
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I move that we favorably pass out first sub HB three 13 as amended. Okay.
H.B. 313 Landscaper Certification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said this was the second hearing on the bill, the sponsor addressed earlier concerns, and there appears to be consensus on the bill.
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Uh, I would briefly. I really, this is the second time we've heard this bill, and it sounds like the good sponsor spent a lot of time addressing the issues with that were brought up the first time. Um, and it sounds like there's a pretty good consensus of where the bill currently sits.
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Explains that H.B. 351 clarifies when and how schools notify guardians of students who fail vision screenings.
▶ Watch at 1:19:58Read what they said
Thank you Mrs. Speaker. Currently in statute we require public schools to conduct tier one vision screenings for students each year with over 600,000 students currently enrolled in public schools. Department of Health and Human Services are in charge of conducting these vision screenings. They contract with different organizations such as nonprofits to co to complete these vision screenings. HB 33 51 does two things. This bill clarifies the requirement on when and how LEAs would notify guardians if their students failed their vision screening representative
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Says the bill lets schools clarify family notification and lets contracted nonprofits send letters offering follow-up care at no cost to families who need it.
▶ Watch at 1:20:51Read what they said
So HB 3 51 does two things. First, it allows, it clarifies when and how LEAs will notify families when there are students fail the vision screening. And second, it will allow nonprofits that are current currently contracted with LEAs to send home a letter to students who felt their vision screening to give them more information on how to follow up on care, um, and follow up on the care at no cost if needed by the family. This bill will ensure that families and students who have the need to have that follow up care that families who have financial hardship will be able to get the care that they need for their students. That is how the …
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Says amendment two is a friendly amendment that improves the bill and thanks Representative Miller.
▶ Watch at 1:22:41Read what they said
This is a friendly amendment and I appreciate the representative looking at it and making it better.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asked to speak to the motion.
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Can I speak to why I'm making this motion? Probably turn my mic back on. All right. Thank you.
H.B. 387 Kratom Modifications · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Said the bill does not ban kratom but ensures regulatory oversight if kratom stays legal, calling it a responsible approach given testimony on both sides.
▶ Watch at 1:47:45Read what they said
Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. The reason why I would like to see this bill move through committee is this bill does not ban Kratom. It is a proactive way to make sure that sure, that in the event that our body decides to move and ban Kratom, uh, or, or rather not ban crem, we are proactively making sure we have regulatory oversight. If Krem still exists in the States, I think this is a responsible approach. I think this is needed given the testimonies that we have heard on both sides. People who have benefited from Kre, people who have not. This is the way that we should be looking at Kratom if we decide to keep it. …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Introduces HB 240 as a business-friendly public safety bill that the fire marshal asked him to run, and hands the presentation to Tony Allred.
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Well, I, I apologize to our fire marshal friends and they said they're used to working all hours, so they didn't mind sitting for the extra hour and a half to do this. So Trust me, if he was, if there was an emergency, he would've been gone. They Would've taken off. I seen it many times in my restaurant. Uh, thank you Mr. Chair and committee for hearing our bill today. This is HB two 40 carbon dioxide system amendments. Fire Marshal came to me to ask me to run this bill and in discussing what this bill does, and I'll, I'll hand that over to my friend here to do it. Um, but it is a business friendly …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Clarifies that the bill concerns carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide, and that it would let certified third parties install and certify CO2 systems to reduce waiting times for businesses.
▶ Watch at 2:09:38Read what they said
So let me just reiterate a couple things here 'cause there was some questions. This is carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide. Uh, the alarm system that, uh, that the fire marshal is speaking of, that's already in Bill. This is not included in here. When you have a CO2 tank that in gas stations, in, uh, commercial uses that have the hundred pounds or more bigger units, we already in other statute require them to have that CO2 monitoring monitoring system. This does not apply to residential by creating a, a certification through the state fire marshal to allow a third party to come in and do the installation and certification the proper way of doing it. Uh, not only …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Explains that the company would receive a license and the individuals working on the systems would be certified. · speaker not certain
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Right now? This bill will expand it so that the state fire marshal will create the program that creates the licensing and certification Of it. Yeah. So what's the difference between a license and a certification? It will make it so that third party coming in to be able to do those inspections, get licensed to be able to go and do those inspections. So the workers will require a license, not a certification. I'm like, we're, I've heard these terms thrown back and forth. They're very different in law. Yeah. And I wanna make sure I know what we're talking about here. Yeah. Well, um, it's generally it's, it is written that way in the law. It's imagined that …
H.B. 240 Carbon Dioxide System Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Says municipalities currently certify systems differently and have backlogs, and that the bill would create uniformity through third-party certification. · speaker not certain
▶ Watch at 2:17:48Read what they said
We, we could do that. We could continue to do it by municipality. I think one of the advantages of business friendly elements of this bill is that there is some difference between municipality and municipality to exactly the extent to which they're certifying all these systems within their municipality. And this would give the ideas that we would, after this process, we'd have some uniformity across municipalities so that a maverick here could under anticipate what a maverick there Do. But let's say the bill doesn't pass today, you'd still continue doing it in that way. Right? Each municipality would be doing it their own way. So my my point is if the bill passes, there's a, an effective …
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Presents H.B. 347 and says it would require local education agencies to notify neighbors within 200 feet before installing artificial turf, without banning the turf or requiring an environmental study.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair and thank you committee for, um, having this item today on the agenda. Uh, I would like to, oh, first I am speaking to the first sub of House Bill 3 47. This bill, I know some of you have been, uh, reached out to, uh, with, with opposition to this bill. Let me start. We do have a handout here. I don't know if, uh, Kyle's gonna be handing out this intern to this, uh, bill to make it a little bit more clear. Let me start with the genesis of this bill. This bill, the discussion for it came about this summer when a community in my district, um, artificial turf was installed in …
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Responds that the bill applies only to education agency installations of at least 5,000 square feet and notes that Salt Lake City has a local ban on artificial turf.
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And also, I, I should note that it also with, in working with LEAs, um, it only pertains to when they are installing artificial turf of at least 5,000 square feet or more, which generally qualifies for lacrosse, soccer, uh, football. This does not, this code does not apply to any other outside of LEAs uh, installing artificial turf. I will note that Salt Lake City, in particular has, uh, local, um, code does already ban artificial turf. So that, that's a direction that some local municipalities are taking. Okay. Thank you. Does that answer your question? Thank you,
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Says the bill does not require a standalone hearing and that public comment would be taken at a regular board meeting, but the board could still approve the turf.
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It would not, and let me just say this again, this does not require an LEA to conduct a Independence standalone public hearing notice on the installation of artificial turf when they decide to do so. This bill makes it very clear they can have it in their regular, regularly scheduled board meetings, monthly board meetings, or whenever the LEAs hold their, uh, standing governing body meeting and have it as in a line agenda to be able to take public comment.
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Confirms that the requirements must be met before installation or approval.
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That is, or could it even be approved? That's correct. That's, that's the process here. That is correct. Okay.
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Says the substitute reflects negotiations with several education agencies and supports its adoption.
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Thank you for making that motion. The first original bill that was published was, you know, kind of throwing a lot out there. This substitute is a lot of negotiations and back and forth with a couple of different LEAs. So I think I would support the adoption of first sub.
H.B. 347 Artificial Turf Placement Modifications · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 6, 2026
Gives closing summation, saying the bill is a first step that provides notice and public comment while broader study and stakeholder work continues.
▶ Watch at 1:28:53Read what they said
Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I really do appreciate the thoughtful conversation that we've had today and the points that have been brought up. While initially the onset of this bill, we wanted to do a lot more, and, and Representative Teuscher is absolutely correct that, that there does need more to be looked at. When I presented this to the water tests, um, committee, it, it was brought up to wanna do a study in interim study about the effects of artificial turf in our water in our shed with the, uh, uh, nuisance of the smells and everything. That's gonna be a really big lift, and it's gonna take quite a while. Right now, the trend of, of …
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · House floor debate (day 18) · Feb 6, 2026
Describes HB 296 as letting the Central Utah, Jordan Valley, Weber, and Salt Lake conservancy water districts consider and allocate available dedicated water to the Great Salt Lake in their five-year water conservation plans, without mandating any allocation, and says the bill has no fiscal note.
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Hello, Mr. Hello, Mr. Speaker HB 2 96 is a very simple bill and an effort to leave no rocks unturned to save our wa bodies of water here. What HB 2 96 does is allow our Conservation Conservancy water districts in the Great Salt Lake Basin, which is the Central Utah Water District, the Jordan Valley Conserv Conserv. I cannot say that word. Cons. Help me here. Conservation Cons. I can't say it. Thank you. Conservancy District. Thank you. The Weber, uh, district and the Salt Lake District be able to take into, into account and allocate any available dedicated water to the Great Salt Lake. This does not mandate them to allocate water, but it helps them in …
H.B. 313 Landscaper Certification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Asked whether the sponsor spoke with stakeholders who provide continuing education for landscapers.
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Thank you, Mr. Vice Chair. To be clear, so with the new requirement of, um, making sure landscapers have this additional training, the water wise and fire safety mm-hmm. Have you spoken with the stakeholders who provide the continuing education for landscapers?
H.B. 313 Landscaper Certification Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Expressed support for the bill as not adding hours while updating training for climate and fire conditions.
▶ Watch at 1:11:00Read what they said
So I serve on the Natural Resources Appropriations Committee and the Water Commission, and I really do appreciate legislation like this where we're not being overly burdensome and adding more hours Yeah. Of continuing ed to people who are already doing this work and are really efficient in it. I do like that we are now evolving it as I'm, as I'm listening to these committees about what's happening in our climate and fires, how they're caused. I really do appreciate that we're, we're taking a really thoughtful approach here with this legislation to just make sure we are, make, making sure these landscapers who are providing these services are evolving themselves to what the climate, what's happening in their …
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Asked whether the bill would let private landlords deny housing applications based on birth sex, noting last year's campus housing law drew testimony about harm.
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Thank you Chair. You really don't want me to speak to you? I do actually. Okay. I think we're good. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I do have a few questions about this. Last year we heard a bill that made it so that on college campuses, a public universities, we can, we made it so that only, um, the gender that they were born at birth, that's the housing they had to stay with, right? Is is that what it was? Correct. Correct. And it, it went through and we had lots of testimony against how harmful that was going to be for folks, but we passed it anyways. This bill is making it so now in private residential …
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said committee questions were not fully answered and she wants to work with the sponsor on remaining ambiguities.
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I, I would like to see, speak to the motion. Mr. Chair. Thank you. There's been several committee members today who already brought up some questions that were not quite answered by the sponsor well enough. I'd like to work through some of those and make sure, I do appreciate the sponsor saying that he has worked to tailor to very narrowly tailor this bill, but it sounds like there are still some ambiguities in this bill that I would like to work on with the sponsor.
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House Education Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Presented HB 351, which would add a 30-day follow-up contact after failed vision screenings and let contracted nonprofits send a supplementary notice offering no-cost follow-up care to families with financial hardship; Jamie Justice of Friends for Sight was available for questions.
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Thank you for waiting. It's always difficult to be the last on the agenda. You never know when you're gonna actually get, uh, your turn. So thank you for being patient with us today. Thank, thank you Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the, to the committee for still staying after. I know we're over time so I can be fast. If you guys can be fast here. This is, this is a very simple bill. Um, right now in statute, we already require schools to do vision screening. I am actually a beneficiary of, of doing vision screening when the kids are young in elementary school. Uh, and it was for myself caught early when I was in kindergarten. Right …
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House Education Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said only the contracted nonprofit may send the one supplemental flyer, that it is not for solicitation, and that it is limited to that nonprofit providing no-cost help to families who need it.
▶ Watch at 3:28:20Read what they said
That, that's absolutely correct. That's why the language says a nonprofit entity had contracts with an LEA. We wanted it to make sure that it was very narrow in the language that the nonprofit already has to have that contract in place with the LEA to be able to send home just that one supplemental flyer once the child fails the vision screening. This is not intended for the nonprofit, anyone to go and spam the families afterwards to try solicit any kind of, um, any kind of patients for them. Thank you. And, and to be clear then too, if I can ask, uh, when it says instructions on how to obtain follow-up care that's coming from the nonprofit, …
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House Education Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said the follow-up is meant to be a second contact after the initial notice, and that approved electronic tools a school already uses, such as Parent Square, could satisfy it.
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Yes. So this particular section with the follow up for the 30 days, this was at the request of, um, the state school board because where we say we wanna close that loop right now in statute, there's nothing that says when or if they do close the loop. After that failed initial failed vision screening, I had actually discussed with the school board, 'cause my my kids' school uses Parent Square, can we use that as a communication tool to satisfy this part? And their, their concern with that was, not all schools use Parent Square. The intent of this is not to be punitive and make sure that schools are, were adding extra work to them. In, in …
H.B. 351 School Vision Screening Amendments · House Education Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said he is open to amending the language on confirming receipt and that the intent is not to add punitive requirements or extra work for schools.
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Yeah. And then I, I know that does for families with different situations, it does provide some a, you know, hardship to be able to even not have access to email. Uh, I, I'm open to amending that and working on that. You know, if we can move it through, I think that's a easy enough change, a friendly enough change to make sure, like I said, this is not meant to be punitive and make extra work for administrators and school nurses. It's just to make sure we try to one more time to make sure that the family receive, they receive the notice and if they need any additional resources.
H.B. 141 International Money Transmission Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Said they voted against the bill last year and still oppose it, citing concerns for families sending money abroad and the privacy of ID requirements.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do appreciate the sponsor bringing this bill forward. Um, we heard this bill last year, and I did vote against it last year, and I still stand in the same position of opposing this bill. I really, you know, as much as I am very much against any kind of illicit criminal activity, cartel activity, I worry that this does ensnare, you know, families especially, who are trying to support, uh, families back at their home in their own foreign home. Um, I think it's an equitable, it, it, it is also a privacy issue for folks as well, if they have to present id. So for those same reasons from last year, I still …
H.B. 229 Restricted Account Modifications · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Moved to recommend HB 229, second substitute, favorably.
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Thank you Mr. Chair. I move that we favorably recommend HB 2 29 restricted account modification. Second sub. Okay. Second sub. The second sub. Yes.
H.B. 229 Restricted Account Modifications · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Jan 29, 2026
Said the bill relates to an industry that needs more funding and supports dedicated money for regulation and diversion prevention in this market.
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You know, I, I appreciate the work that's being done here right now in our state. This is adjacent to another, um, another industry that needs more funding. And I, I really love that we have these money that's dedicated to proper regulations and diversion that's happening in this market. So I think this is a good deal.
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Nguyen presented HB 296, saying it would let water suppliers include commitments of water to Great Salt Lake in their conservation plans, and introduced Laura Briefer.
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Good afternoon everyone. Representative Hong Winn. Some of you may know I'm in kind of a unique position where I live in Salt Lake City, represent the east bunch of Salt Lake City, but I also go travel the state quite a bit, where I have a lot of agriculture business in several different counties. Um, that puts me in a really unique position to be able to speak with folks in rural Utah and kind of see what those issues that they have out there are. I was having a conversation with one of them recently, um, a rancher, uh, where he says, you know, we are doing our best out in rural Utah to conserve water and the …
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Nguyen said the bill was presented to the Water Task Force earlier, with Briefer presenting it.
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It was taken prior to my time. This exact bill was taken to the Water Task Force with, um, Laura presenting it to them.
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Nguyen said the bill had not been taken to the Water Development Commission in time.
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The wa No, at that time we did not have it at the Water Development Commission. I couldn't get it on there on time.
H.B. 296 Water Commitment Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Nguyen summarized the bill as a simple addition to the water conservation plan code with no fiscal impact.
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I think this is a simple modification or simple add to this build this water conservation plan code. Um, there's a, there's no fiscal impact on this. I think this is a bill that will, like I said, make it a little bit more easy for our conservation plans to start thinking about the Great Salt Lake, especially with the Governor's 2034 Great Salt Lake Initiative. This is one of the things that we'll start working towards that. So with that, I'll conclude.
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