Calvin Roberts

• H.B. 507 State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Explains the conference committee changes, including pit protections so cities are not liable for bad pit debt, a coordination clause, and removal of a duplicative energy zone and tax increment process so the Energy Council keeps its role.

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  Yeah, just in, uh, the changes from the last sub, we added some additional pit protections to make sure that cities aren't liable for bad pit debt. And we added a coordination clause with some legislation from the representative from Ogden. Um, and then most importantly, I'd say we removed a duplicative process around energy zones and tax increment to make sure that the Energy Council maintains its position, um, in energy development and incentives. And with that, I'm open to questions.

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves that the House refuse to concur with the Senate amendments to H.B. 492 and ask the Senate to recede from its amendments.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker Motion to refuse to concur with the Senate amendments and we ask the Senate to recede Not the Cow Bell.

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Moves to adopt the conference committee report on H.B. 492.

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  Thank you Mr. Speaker. Motion to concur. Thank you. Sorry. That's adopt the conference Committee report. Motion to adopt the conference Committee report.

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026

  Says the bill gives the legislature more control over Salt Lake County road money and reduces the amount spent on Third West under a private company agreement.

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  Yes. The two major changes here, colleagues are number one, this puts the legislature more in control of how Salt Lake County Road money gets spent. It puts us in the driver's seat, which is important. And then number two is it reduces the amount of money being spent on Third West as part of a larger agreement with, uh, a, a private company to pitch in to the overall development. So with that, I'm open for questions.

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• H.B. 68 Housing and Community Development Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Explains that the Senate amendments move the bill's effective date from July 1 to May 6.

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  Will. The changes the effective date was July 1st. We're moving it to May 6th.

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• H.B. 507 State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Says the bill was about protecting the property tax base and constraining increment tools, and that some work remains.

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  I would. This bill was about protecting our property tax base, constraining increment tools and we have some work to still do.

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• H.B. 507 State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Explains the motion is to refuse to concur with the Senate amendments and ask the Senate to recede from them. · speaker not certain

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  To refuse to concur with the Senate amendments and ask that they recede from their amendments.

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• H.B. 475 Development Planning and Coordination Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026

  Explains a Senate amendment that exempts certain purchases of print materials and furniture supplies from the Division of Corrections, so those office materials can be obtained more quickly.

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  Yeah. There's a change that exempts goo from purchasing print materials, furniture supplies from the division of Corrections, which is our prison system. It just will allow them to get office materials quicker. We added that into the bill.

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• H.B. 575 Fuel Tax and Supply Amendments · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 4, 2026

  Presented the bill as addressing gas supply by easing permitting for private fuel infrastructure, citing a 12.5% production increase agreed with five North Salt Lake refineries, and a 6-cent gas tax cut starting July 1 as short-term relief.

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  I will give you a very brief presentation. Well, first thank you Mr. Chair, uh, for allowing me to come back to hear this. So the major issue with gas prices in our state and the region, it's a supply issue. And what this bill is trying to do is to cut red tape around private infrastructure investment into our state that will bring more supply. That's the primary thing it's doing. The second thing about the bill is that we've got an agreement with private industry, our five refineries here in North Salt Lake area to increase production by 12.5%. And over the next five years, that's about 23,000 barrels per day into our market that will help bring …

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• S.B. 230 Consumer Credit Amendments · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026

  Explains that S.B. 230 removes certain prepayment penalties on consumer finance products, requires upfront disclosure of financing fees, and provides transparency and certainty to borrowers and lenders, and urges support.

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  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues. The, uh, the prepayment of debt statute was passed in the seventies. It's a confusing statute. What this bill does is it removes prepayment penalties in certain conditions, uh, for consumer product, consumer finance products. And then what it also does is it requires financing fees. So these are fees that you charge upfront to be disclosed upfront to the consumer. Uh, and it also provides some transparency and certainty to borrowers and lenders in our state. We are a leading state for finance and banking. This is good for the consumer and finance is supported by all the industry trade groups and I'd encourage your support.

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• H.B. 249 Federal Funds Modifications · Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026

  Said the bill will help the community and thanked the committee.

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  We think we'll do great things for, for, uh, the, the, the community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 27, 2026

  Introduces H.B. 492 as a bill the committee should not miss.

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  Now this is a bill we cannot miss. That is bright. You also can't miss it 'cause it's just really good policy. Oh wow. I opened up the door for that, didn't I? Ooh, Uh oh. Uh oh. I invited the, yeah. Hey,

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 27, 2026

  Presents H.B. 492, which creates a county highway fund from local option sales tax money and a revolving loan facility for regional infrastructure that supports planned housing.

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  Questions? Yeah, I'm in trouble. I should have been more humble. Um, let me just set the stage briefly. So we've been trying to tackle housing for years. Increasingly there's a chasm between where median wages are today and where median home prices are. The traditional fight up here, as many of you know, as we fight over land use and what the state role is in land use and what the local government role is in land use, we've tried to think differently about the housing policy, this go this time around. And if you listen to the league and to a private industry, they'll tell you we have 190,000 entitled units throughout the state. And those are probably …

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 27, 2026

  Explains that the funding comes from the TIFF and UDOT sources and that a board will decide city-driven applications.

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  It, the, the funding piece comes from the public float from the UD or udot. On the tiff. The administration of it happens through a board that's created. There'll be a senate pick a house, pick goo udot, there'll be a board that will receive the applications, but they're city driven. So the city has to come and say, we want this infrastructure. Here's our application for the loan, here's how we plan to pay it back. And then the funding comes through the udot source. Um, the decision making happens within that board at goo. Does that answer your question? Yes.

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• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 27, 2026

  Says the funding is flexible and is expected to be repaid through developer-paid impact fees over several years.

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  It's tried to keep it purpose, uh, purposefully flexible because if we, the money has to have a payback mechanism. So usually what what we anticipate will happen is it will be paid back via impact fees. So those are developer paid impact fees. Alright. Um, to pay the loans back, let's say over the course of seven years or 10 years. Um,

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How they voted

Their full voting record, attendance, and party-line score are still being compiled from the official roll calls. Each bill page shows their vote on that bill.

Bills they sponsored

• H.B. 68 Housing and Community Development Amendments · Governor Signed
• H.B. 249 Federal Funds Modifications · Governor Signed
• H.B. 475 Development Planning and Coordination Amendments · Governor Signed
• H.B. 492 Transportation, Infrastructure, and Housing Amendments · Governor Signed
• H.B. 507 State Coordination of Regional and Local Economic Development Projects Amendments · Governor Signed
• H.B. 575 Fuel Tax and Supply Amendments · Governor Signed
• H.B. 586 Transportation Funding Amendments · Did not pass
• H.J.R. 2 Joint Rules Resolution - Resolution Amendments · House/ to Lieutenant Governor

Carried in the House as floor sponsor

• S.B. 230 Consumer Credit Amendments · Governor Signed
• S.B. 231 Energy User Amendments · Did not pass

About

In office since

January 1, 2025

Counties

Salt Lake

Profession

Private Equity

Education

B.A. Brigham Young University

Honors and awards

None listed in their official profile.

Committees

• Transportation and Infrastructure Appropriations Subcommittee
• House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee
• House Rules Committee
• House Transportation Committee
• Government Operations Interim Committee
• Transportation Interim Committee
• Federalism Commission

Profile details come from the Utah Legislature's official legislator data.