Clinton Okerlund

• H.B. 308 Homeless Services Amendments · Became law
• H.B. 328 Water Usage Modifications · 2nd Reading Calendar to Rules
• H.B. 341 Animal Fighting Penalties · Did not pass
• H.B. 409 Legislator Leave Amendments · Did not pass
• H.J.R. 19 Joint Rules Resolution - Requests for Legislation · Did not pass

• H.B. 308 Homeless Services Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Sponsor says the Senate amendments, developed with input from a Sandy representative and others, allow municipalities to temporarily expand congregate shelter bed capacity and change how local tax revenues are distributed, and recommends concurrence.

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  Yes. The Senate amendments are actually house amendments that we got the Senate to do for us once it was over there. So, uh, we should like these, uh, Representative Eliason, uh, from the representative from Sandy, the representative from Provo and who will soon be the homeless services coordinator and I, and, uh, various other organizations, were able to take some of the best parts of representative from Sandy's bill and put it into my bill to make it an extra great bill. Um, it permits municipality at their own discretion to allow a temporary expansion of a congregate shelter's bed capacity, and it changes, um, some provisions relating to a local government's tax revenue distributions. And, uh, recommend …

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• H.B. 409 Legislator Leave Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Presents HB 409, which would let a teacher or state employee who serves in the Legislature choose between their regular employment and retirement plan or legislative leave pay and retirement, but not both, and says a second substitute would allow people already paid for both to keep that arrangement.

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  Thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you. Committee. I was traveling with a fellow legislator over the interim and, uh, talked to him about his job as a school teacher and found that while we're in session, not only is he doing a great job legislating, but he's also correcting papers at night, preparing lesson plans, uh, giving instructions to substitute teachers. And, uh, and then I learned that he, his retirement is put on hold while he does this as a teacher. Uh, he'll have to work probably several years longer in his career because of his legislative service. And it occurred to me that there ought to be a way to, uh, not have his, uh, teacher retirement put …

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• H.B. 409 Legislator Leave Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 3, 2026

  Clarifies that the bill does not allow teachers to be paid twice for legislative service except for people who already have arrangements with their employers to do both, and says the bill aims to avoid penalizing state employees for their service.

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  Uh, thank you very much. I I appreciate the public input on this. Um, I, I I do want to clarify that this does not allow for, uh, somebody who is, is a teacher to also be paid for their legislative service or, or there's no double-dipping in that sense allowed other than, than what's specified in the substitute for those people that are already, uh, have an arrangement with their employer to do both. But, um, it is a service and, and I think probably most of us know how much it's, uh, been a sacrifice to our careers and our families and other people. But this is to try to make it a little less of a pain …

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About

In office since

January 1, 2025

Counties

Salt Lake

Profession

Chief Financial Officer

Education

B.A., Business Management, Brigham Young University; M.B.A,, University of Notre Dame

Honors and awards

None listed in their official profile.

Email

cokerlund@le.utah.gov

Money and conflicts of interest

• Campaign finance reports (who donated to their campaign, from the Lt. Governor's disclosure site)
• No conflict-of-interest disclosure is linked in their official profile.

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