Legislators / David Shallenberger
David Shallenberger
Republican · House District 58
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- Email: dshallenberger@le.utah.gov
- Phone: 801-214-5989
- Office: 350 N State Street, Suite 350, Salt Lake City, UT, 84114
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David Shallenberger serves on:
- Transportation and Infrastructure Appropriations Subcommittee
- House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee
- House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee
- Business and Labor Interim Committee
- Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee
What they've said
235 remarks on 45 billsS.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Says the conference process succeeded, that both sides are satisfied, and that funding concerns raised by the unit basin group will be watched over.
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Yeah. Uh, it was a success. Everyone came together, uh, and we worked together to make sure that everyone landed in a good spot. Both sides feel good about it. And I wanted to reassure the, uh, concerns yesterday with the our friends from the unit basin that, uh, as I mentioned yesterday, we were gonna make sure that that funding stayed and that that would, uh, be watched over and in Good in good care.
S.B. 236 Property Tax Exemption Process Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Presents the bill, saying it would give counties and property owners a transparent process for property tax exemptions, with a required March application date, a written response from the county if it denies an exemption, and an appeals process.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This comes outta the counties. It's trying to help them create a, a transparent process for property owners and the counties alike. Where, uh, if the property owner wants to apply for a property tax exemption, there's a required date in March each year where they can apply. And then on the flip side, if the county does not issue it, they have to wr uh, provide a written response as well as an appeals process, just providing, providing transparency, uh, across the counties with different property owners so they know what to expect on each side of the, the transaction. That's it would be welcome. Uh, would welcome any questions or comments. Thank
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Presents the resolution as a study of a part-time, evening and weekend law school at Utah Valley University, paid for by UVU with no state or taxpayer funds.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is a resolution to look at, uh, the viability of rolling out a new law school here in Utah. This is only a study that will, uh, roll out, but it's looking at a different target market. We currently only have two law schools in Utah, BYU and the University of Utah. And this target market is looking at what type of, uh, of demographic is out there, what type of demographic is out there for part-time, weekend or evening classes. So targeting a totally different market segment than a full-time law school would. Um, and this study is not, it's started out specifically for UVU at Thanksgiving point, but it's been expanded working with …
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Says the Wasatch Front runs from Tremont to the Payson area and that the Northern Wasatch Front means Salt Lake North.
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The Wasatch Front would expand from Tremont down to Payson area. So the Northern Wasatch front, if you like, could Mr. Speaker, Uh, Salt Lake North.
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Describes an amendment that expands the study to other institutions and parts of the state, citing projected growth in Utah County.
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Uh, yes, there was an amendment and I would like to add, so it came from two Points. Utah County over the next 10 years, or by 2050, will be the largest county in the state. Uh, the population in Utah County will be larger than Salt Lake. And so it's looking at density and, uh, specific need from there. But the, the amendment did expand the scope of the study to include, uh, other parts of the state. So currently the Cougars and the Utes are the only ones at the law schools. The Wolverines started out looking at it, but if the Aggies want to get in the discussion and be part of that discussion, then that's what …
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Responds that the study will examine accreditation requirements, enrollment sources, and existing campuses across the state.
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Thank you, Madam Speaker ProAm, uh, yes. The, that is the intent of the study is to look at, well, what is gonna be required for accreditation for part-time or full-time, uh, instructors as well as really where are, where's the enrollment going to come from? And so it was looking at existing campuses that might be Weber State or the non Wasatch front campus up in Cash Valley, um, or maybe Thanksgiving point where there are some existing commercial buildings that could be used, uh, during evening hours or used for dual purpose, uh, use. So the, the intent of this study is really to look at just the viability across the entire state of where this might go, …
S.J.R. 8 Joint Resolution to Initiate a Law School at Utah Valley University · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Gives closing summation, calling the study a crucial part of state infrastructure and asking for support.
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Thank you. Um, it said that the worst thing that can happen is have the government knock on your door and say, we're from the government, we're here to help you. I might, uh, add that the second worst thing would be we need more lawyers. Uh, but with the growing population and the siphoning off of existing talent, it is a crucial part of our infrastructure and, uh, an important part of our thing. And this study is an important, and it'll be a, a productive study. Thank you for your vote. Yes. Yes, vote.
S.B. 176 Landscaping Procurement Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Moves the previous question to end debate.
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uh, call to question, previous question has been called, which has the effect of any debate?
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Speaks to the motion to concur with the Senate amendments to the bill.
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Motion to Concur. Thank you Representative. That motion is in other words I speak to it.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House floor debate (day 45) · Mar 6, 2026
Explains that the Senate removed the road naming provision from the bill, and says the House is fine with that change.
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Yes. The change was made three days ago back in Senate committee. So no changes in the Senate and all it changes is this is the road naming bill that actually, uh, uh, where a committee makes, uh, they decide all the road bills and chooses one, one, uh, name to change the state highways. And we thought it would be appropriate to have the road naming committee that names roads have a name and apparently the Senate does not have a sense of humor and didn't want it to have a name, so they pulled it out. We're fine with that. We're fine with that.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Explains the substitute: it makes funding ongoing for a new committee, changes the severance tax for critical and other minerals, shortens the period from 20 to five years, and removes the ability to transfer tax credits.
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Uh, yeah, this is what this does. It does a couple things. It helps, uh, line up the funding to, uh, be ongoing so that, uh, they can have some consistency in this fund, in this new committee. And then it also changes, uh, the severance tax in across the state to from $50 million per mine to, for critical minerals to $10 million per mine for all other minerals. Reduces it from 20 years to five years and it eliminates the ability to sign tax credit, cerate certi certificates to another entity. Um, and so it just focuses it, uh, in line with the rest of the bill.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Explains that the substitute aligns ongoing funding for a new committee, changes the severance tax for critical and other minerals, shortens the period from 20 to five years, and removes the tax credit transfer provision.
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Uh, yeah, this is what this does. It does a couple things. It helps, uh, line up the funding to, uh, be ongoing so that, uh, they can have some consistency in this fund, in this new committee. And then it also changes, uh, the severance tax in across the state to from $50 million per mine to, for critical minerals to $10 million per mine for all other minerals. Reduces it from 20 years to five years and it eliminates the ability to sign tax credit, cerate certi certificates to another entity. Um, and so it just focuses it, uh, in line with the rest of the bill.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Responds that the substitute is not intended to affect the air quality program and that such language is not included in it.
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So yes, I was curious if she had a line item she can reference. I, uh, that's not the intent of the substitute and not included in the substitute language that, that, uh, we put in. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says the air quality program funding change is not the intent of the substitute and is not included in its language.
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I, uh, that's not the intent of the substitute and not included in the substitute language that, that, uh, we put in. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Opposes the motion to circle, saying Uintah County air quality is important and that the bill is designed not to harm it.
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Uh, I would reject that motion. We are in good space. Uh, unit County is near and dear to my heart. I go out there frequently. We are working closely to make sure this bill is in line with, uh, keeping good air quality out there. And, uh, we'll make sure that, uh, any issues are, uh, they're not included in this substitute, but we'll make sure that it is not negatively impacting the air quality in you county.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Opposes the motion to circle, saying the bill is in line with keeping good air quality in the Uintah Basin and that issues will be addressed.
▶ Watch at 25:33Read what they said
Uh, I would reject that motion. We are in good space. Uh, unit County is near and dear to my heart. I go out there frequently. We are working closely to make sure this bill is in line with, uh, keeping good air quality out there. And, uh, we'll make sure that, uh, any issues are, uh, they're not included in this substitute, but we'll make sure that it is not negatively impacting the air quality in you county.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says he will work to ensure the bill has no negative air quality impact on the Basin and its county.
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Thank you. I appreciate the concern. We will work hard to make sure there is no negative air impact and you in a basin, you in a county. Um, that is it. Thank you.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says the sponsor will work to ensure no negative air quality impact in the basin and county.
▶ Watch at 28:53Read what they said
Thank you. I appreciate the concern. We will work hard to make sure there is no negative air impact and you in a basin, you in a county. Um, that is it. Thank you.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says the amendment makes code clarifications and date changes to line up with the substitute.
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Uh, this is just making a couple code, clarifications and date changes to come in line with that substitute, making sure everything lines up.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Explains that the amendment makes code clarifications and date changes to match the substitute.
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Uh, this is just making a couple code, clarifications and date changes to come in line with that substitute, making sure everything lines up.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Presents S.B. 254 as creating a critical minerals committee to coordinate mining, processing, and manufacturing, involving the University of Utah, and sets goals for Utah's share of national production.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. SB 2 24 is, uh, critical minerals, uh, deals with critical minerals. The federal government recognizes 60 critical minerals as essential to our supply chain in the United States. Our national defense and our national economy. 50 of those 60 critical minerals are found here in Utah. So this has been a months long effort, uh, going back six months at least, to bring, uh, key stakeholders from along across the state, as well as our federal counterparts in DC to coordinate efforts with the federal government and make sure that Utah is leading out on this effort across the country. It helps align, uh, our legislative, uh, laws. And this, that's what this bill does, …
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Presents the bill on critical minerals, saying it creates a committee and coordinates mining, processing, and manufacturing of the 60 federally designated critical minerals, with 50 found in Utah, and involves the University of Utah.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. SB 2 24 is, uh, critical minerals, uh, deals with critical minerals. The federal government recognizes 60 critical minerals as essential to our supply chain in the United States. Our national defense and our national economy. 50 of those 60 critical minerals are found here in Utah. So this has been a months long effort, uh, going back six months at least, to bring, uh, key stakeholders from along across the state, as well as our federal counterparts in DC to coordinate efforts with the federal government and make sure that Utah is leading out on this effort across the country. It helps align, uh, our legislative, uh, laws. And this, that's what this bill does, …
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Summarizes that the bill supports the critical minerals industry, cites federal partners and community and state agency involvement, and asks for a yes vote.
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Thank you. I appreciate the representative's concerns from Richfield and from the Basin. Uh, this is the future of this entire critical mineral industry in Utah and the country. This is urgent, and, uh, there is a sense of urgency with this because we are working with federal partners to get significant federal funds and get this start rolling out the door. Uh, several of our community partners here from the Inland Port, university of Utah, the Mining Association, the Manufacturing Association, uh, goo Goed, nucleus 47 G. We've all been part of this, including our state agencies, including the Division of Natural Resources, division of Environmental Quality, uh, office of Energy Development. We've all been part of these discussions …
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Gives summation, saying the bill is urgent for Utah's critical mineral industry and federal funding, that community and state agencies were involved, and asks for members' votes.
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Thank you. I appreciate the representative's concerns from Richfield and from the Basin. Uh, this is the future of this entire critical mineral industry in Utah and the country. This is urgent, and, uh, there is a sense of urgency with this because we are working with federal partners to get significant federal funds and get this start rolling out the door. Uh, several of our community partners here from the Inland Port, university of Utah, the Mining Association, the Manufacturing Association, uh, goo Goed, nucleus 47 G. We've all been part of this, including our state agencies, including the Division of Natural Resources, division of Environmental Quality, uh, office of Energy Development. We've all been part of these discussions …
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Reserves the right to make a motion.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker ProAm, I'd like to reserve the right to make a motion.
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks to reserve the right to make a motion.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker ProAm, I'd like to reserve the right to make a motion.
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks the floor sponsor to yield to questions and asks whether the bill is the proper role of government.
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Uh, is the floor sponsor open to a series of questions? Representative Walter, will you yield to a series of questions? I will. Go ahead. Thank you. These are pretty, uh, simple questions, but important questions. Um, I'm wondering if with this SB 54 bill, is this the proper role of government?
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks whether the bill is the proper role of government.
▶ Watch at 1:22:12Read what they said
Thank you. These are pretty, uh, simple questions, but important questions. Um, I'm wondering if with this SB 54 bill, is this the proper role of government?
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks whether the bill contains any rulemaking authority.
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Thank you. One more. Is, uh, does this have any, uh, rulemaking authority in it?
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Asks whether the bill has any rulemaking authority.
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Thank you. One more. Is, uh, does this have any, uh, rulemaking authority in it?
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Moves to table S.B. 54.
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Thank you. To my motion. I'd like to make a motion to table SB 54.
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Moves to table SB 54.
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Thank you. To my motion. I'd like to make a motion to table SB 54.
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says he will withdraw his motion and comment.
▶ Watch at 1:24:03Read what they said
Okay. I could just make, okay, I'll, I'll just take it back and comment if I,
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Says he will withdraw the motion and comment instead.
▶ Watch at 1:24:03Read what they said
Okay. I could just make, okay, I'll, I'll just take it back and comment if I,
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
States that he cannot support the bill and will not vote for it.
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I'll go ahead. Motion. Um, I pledge to all my constituents if given the opportunity to kill SB 54, I would take the opportunity to kill SB 54. And I can't take this, uh, opportunity lightly. I take it seriously. And, uh, I cannot support this bill for that reason.
S.B. 54 Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
States that he cannot support the bill and will vote against it.
▶ Watch at 1:24:09Read what they said
I'll go ahead. Motion. Um, I pledge to all my constituents if given the opportunity to kill SB 54, I would take the opportunity to kill SB 54. And I can't take this, uh, opportunity lightly. I take it seriously. And, uh, I cannot support this bill for that reason.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 44) · Mar 5, 2026
Explains that the Senate amendments add language redacting the address and personal contact information of campaign donors who give five, ten, or twenty dollars or less.
▶ Watch at 2:20:28Read what they said
Yep. So this is the date of privacy bill. They added a tiny bit of language in there for, uh, small donors on campaigns five, 10, $20 or less. Uh, if a grandma, grandma Bill is requested trying to get donors of all things, uh, the address and personal contact information for those donors is redacted.
S.B. 193 State Legal Holiday Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Says he usually opposes state holidays but supports this bill for its emphasis on civility and because it does not require schools to give time off.
▶ Watch at 1:27:06Read what they said
Thank you. Chair. I'd like to reserve the right to make a motion. Okay. Um, with that said, I normally make against state holidays. In fact, I've been part of the efforts to kill state holidays when they come in front of this committee. Um, I'm looking at this not through a specific, um, uh, domination or even the Christianity spectrum. I think as we come to the end of the session, and we've talked about a lot of bills, a lot of policy, a lot of the process here. I think something's sort of coming for full circle for me, not just at this moment, just in the last couple days, but it's the importance of civility in our …
S.B. 193 State Legal Holiday Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Moves a positive recommendation of the bill to the full House.
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Yeah. I'd like to make a motion, a positive motion positive recommendation for this bill to the full house.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee · Mar 4, 2026
Presented HB 450, the annual data privacy bill, and introduced the Chief Data Privacy Officer, who was present to answer questions.
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Thank you. Committee. This is the annual, uh, data privacy bill. This is a relatively new office, three years old from the Office of Data Privacy. Uh, I have up here with me, uh, the Chief Data Privacy Officer. He's just to answer questions. Right? Yeah. Okay.
S.C.R. 9 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Critical Minerals Development and Funding · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Presents the resolution asking Utah's federal delegation in Washington to work with the state to align federal efforts with state efforts on critical minerals, focusing on the 50 of 60 critical minerals found in Utah for manufacturing, processing, and mining to strengthen the state and federal economy and defense.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is a resolution and request for our federal representatives and counterparts in Washington DC to work with us and help align federal efforts with our state efforts to focus on the 50 of the 60 critical minerals that are found here in Utah as we work on manufacturing processing and, uh, mining these minerals, uh, to strengthen the Utah and federal economy and defense. That is it.
S.B. 82 Securities Investor Education, Training, and Enforcement Fund Amendments · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger explains that the bill raises the Securities Investor Education, Training, and Enforcement Fund cap from $500,000 to $1 million so the Division of Securities can budget for education, training, and enforcement against securities fraud for the full year.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is coming from the Department of Commerce, specifically the division of securities or the state, SEC. And this division, uh, focuses on, uh, dealing with security, fraud, scams, uh, those types of things that you're getting in your texts, your emails, uh, your calls or any of the bank fraud that's going on. And it's a problem rampant or state and country. Uh, this division is funded, specifically has a fund to deal with education, with training, and then prosecuting and trying to go after enforcement of these areas. Uh, it's funded through fines and, but it's capped at $500,000 for their budget. That is about six months of the year for their enforcement, their …
S.B. 281 Senior Nutrition Private Donation Incentives · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Presents S.B. 281, which lets Meals on Wheels programs receive matching funds and seed money to attract private donors and rely less on state funding.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this is a pretty simple bill. It deals with mill on wheels in different counties and it's, it sort of comes from a little bit of a background where during those, the Christmas giving boxes, uh, they did a Meals on Wheels card in some of those and they raised $60,000 over the holiday season. So it created, uh, an incentive for them to reach out during the year and try to really make an effort to, uh, get donors and private donors from the outside community rather than rely on state funding. So, uh, this is putting into code that they can get matching funds and get a little bit of seed money to …
S.B. 204 Physical Therapy Payment Amendments · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Moves to adopt the first amendment to the bill.
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Thank you. Motion to adopt First Amendment to House bill 2 0 4, Senate bill 2 0 4.
S.B. 204 Physical Therapy Payment Amendments · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Says the amendment sets a timeline giving insurance companies that renew or create policies in 2027 time to adjust to the change.
▶ Watch at 2:35:55Read what they said
Uh, yes. This is, uh, setting up a timeline that will give any insurance companies, uh, that will be renewing or creating new insurance policies in 2027. Time to come in line with, uh, this change.
S.B. 204 Physical Therapy Payment Amendments · House floor debate (day 43) · Mar 4, 2026
Says the amendment treats physical therapy offices as primary care providers rather than specialty providers, which would lower copays or deductibles for musculoskeletal care.
▶ Watch at 2:36:53Read what they said
Thank you. Uh, this is a physical therapy amendment. This is dealing primarily with just physical therapy offices, and it's instead of treating them as specialty providers, this is then treating them as a primary care provider, which would bring their copay or deductible in line with a primary care provider, which is significantly less than a specialty provider, which would be x-rays, MRIs, specialty treatments, things like that. This would be dealing with musculoskeletal issues and, uh, help create an overall healthier person with lower out-of-pocket costs. That is it.
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presented H.B. 439, which requires the State Water Engineer's Office to create a program and plan to help counties, special districts, and municipalities prepare 40-year water plans, with a simple template for small communities and a January 2028 effective date.
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Okay. Thank you. Committee. I'm joined by with Blake Beam from the State Water Engineer's Office. And this comes from, uh, a water audit that was performed this last year where, uh, they looked at cities, counties, municipalities, uh, water districts across the state and looked at deficiencies or planning, especially dealing with exactions that as developments are being built out or housing is being built out across the state, um, making sure we have enough water for our planning in these communities, uh, into the future. And they found that only a small percentage of counties and small percentage of cities across the state have actually done what's called a 40 year water plan, which is looking at, uh, …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explains a one-word technical change to the bill, replacing 'bidder' with 'vendor' in the procurement code section.
▶ Watch at 1:20:56Read what they said
Thank you. And, uh, there is an amendment on line now with a one word change. There is an amendment on line. Uh, would you like to explain the amendment? Yeah, it, uh, just as a technical change on line 2 41, that changes the word bidder to vendor, uh, in the technical system and the procurement. The, what is, what this would apply to is, uh, vendors is what this section of the procurement code it would actually describe and not bidders, so legal term. Okay. Alright.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presents the bill, which would have procurement officers give evaluation points to Utah-registered, Utah-headquartered companies in good standing, a 10% scoring advantage when bids are otherwise close.
▶ Watch at 1:22:19Read what they said
So the concept behind this bill is, uh, looking at, uh, the procurement as companies, uh, uh, applied to different projects across the state. This is for, uh, projects where you'd, uh, applied to an RFPA request for proposal, an RFA request for, um, application, I think, or, and A RFI request for information. And you would apply. And for these projects, and typically they base these awards, uh, to a vendor off of a scoring matrix. What is your bidding, uh, application? Your ba your background, what is your proposed method of accomplishing this project? What is your price? What is your, uh, expertise in this field? And you get a score on a line item for each of …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explains that the Utah preference is defined in the bill, is meant not to stifle competition, and is similar to existing preferences for small or disadvantaged businesses.
▶ Watch at 1:26:47Read what they said
Uh, it's, so it's defined on line 2 25 where preference for Utah suppliers, and the intent is not to stifle competition or anything like that. If so, if multiple in-state bidders are applying, everyone is treated equal, and if multiple out-of-state bidders are applying, everyone is treated equal. Uh, I've, so I've, I've helped write proposals over the last 20 and 30 years and it, it's fairly common practice depending on what type of area you're in. Sometimes, uh, people have designated maybe a certified small business that they want to help help certified small businesses. So they might give a bonus to that group or, uh, disadvantaged businesses that might be women owned or minority owned or veteran …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Explains the bill's registration and principal-place-of-business requirements and says the state would monitor the impact over the coming year and adjust if needed.
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Well, It's not about, it's not about their access, right? It's no, it, everybody's welcome to, to provide, I mean, to compete, everyone's willing to bid on it. And so it tries to outline it and it's trying to pe to trying to stop people from game gaming the system or create a shell company. Um, so they wanna be registered in Utah, have a principal place of business here in Utah, and be in business for at least one year. And all of that is listed on the certificate of, um, of good standing that is issued by the Department of Corporations. So it's, it's this balance of trying to prevent, prevent people from gaming the system, but also …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says similar preferences already exist in different communities and bids.
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Those are possible. Those are, those all exist right now in different communities and different bids out all over. So the, the all those are real things.
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · Senate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Summarized the bill, saying the House Natural Resources Committee worked to avoid adding burdens for rural partners.
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And I appreciate that. And, uh, same thing when we had this in our house. Natural Resources committee is making sure that we are working with our rural partners to, uh, not add an additional burden on top of 'em and make sure that we can all get to a good place in the end.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says price is a factor in scoring and that its weight depends on the agency and the project. · speaker not certain
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Well, and, and sometimes depending on what the project is, um, the cost might is definitely gonna be a portion of the scoring criteria. It might be 20%, it might be 80% and that they would get a score in the scoring criteria. But the state, or depending on what the project is, they might say the price is important, but expertise is significantly more important for this one, for a nuclear project or something for instance, or a mining project or something. You would want someone that actually knows what they're doing, not somebody that can just be the lowest bidder and it might vary. Or, Or if that's a Utah company, 'cause they might not. Or if it's …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · Senate Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Asks for a positive recommendation, saying the bill could help Utah's economy and that the 10% figure could be adjusted next year.
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Thank you. I would encourage a, a positive recommendation if possible. I mean, I think this is a way to help the people of Utah, especially anytime that we're struggling, help give them the skills, the experience, and, and boost the economy in areas that we're looking for ways to help help the economy and help people out there. So it's a way to work forward. And if we come back next year and say 10% is maybe too high or too low, I, I don't know. It might, we might come back and adjust it, but I think it's worth trying out and let's see what the, what the positive effect is gonna be.
S.B. 287 Targeted Advertising Tax · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger asked how the sponsor would respond to claims that the tax is punitive toward social media companies and would be passed on to small businesses that rely on online ads.
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Thank you. Uh, so just a quick question. Yeah. Some of the feedback, some of the negative comments we're getting that are this, are that it's just a punitive attack on the social media companies, uh, just trying to continue this Yeah. Is how would you respond to that? And then as a small business owner, how would you respond to that? The fees are just gonna get straight, passed through and injure me as a small business owner that makes most of my revenue off online ads.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presents HB 491, which would create an off-season committee to select one state road name per session, limit memorial signs per road section, and set a five-year waiting period before names are considered.
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Thank you. So this bill came after, uh, speaking with, uh, leadership from both houses, uh, the House and the Senate. We have an increasing number of road designation name bills every year. This year we had 12 bills filed to rename, uh, sections of the freeway and, uh, talking. So the purpose behind this is to help create a process for that so it doesn't just keep escalating so that we can review this and come up with a methodical, streamlined way to deal with these. Uh, and it solves a number of problems. Uh, the, the intent is to create an off season, uh, committee. A road naming committee where if people want to name sections of road …
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says Martin Luther King Jr. would have a national impact and that this would be the pitch to the committee.
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I I, I think he would have an, a significant impact on, uh, every community, every state, uh, in the entire country. So that would probably be the pitch to the committee.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says the intent does not require residence in Utah, only some impact or relevance to Utah, and that Martin Luther King Jr. could qualify.
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We, we maybe Yeah. Couldn't prove that they even visited Utah? No. 'cause I don't think the intent was not to say they had to live in Utah, it's just did they have an impact or are they, are they relevant to Utah in some way, or, or fashion? And you could make a tie for Martin Luther King Jr. Easily.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says a cooling-off period after emotional deaths, such as the Charlie Kirk death and a proposed Harvey Milk road name, would reduce divisiveness and allow later, calmer consideration.
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I mean, oftentimes when there is a death, for instance, Charlie Kirk, the death of Charlie Kirk created a lot of emotion on both sides last year. And then the, the bill that was proposed this year created even more divisiveness when it was proposed to replace a city road for, uh, Harvey Milk, which then created more chaos. 'cause it's taking up, uh, media time and, and getting in the way of business of the legislature. Uh, so at at least some time having some type of mandatory period, whether it's, uh, like the Charlie Kirk instance or the death of, uh, on the unfortunate death of a law enforcement officer or something like that. It maybe gives a …
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Says five years was a number picked during brainstorming and that he is open to changing it.
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Yeah, I'm open to, to this. I mean, five years was just a number that, you know, they're sort of brainstorming and picking out things. So five years was the number picked out. It's, it is just there
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Opposes the amendment, saying the committee naming was intended as a deliberate choice.
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Naturally the thing to do. Yes. Representative. Naturally, I'd be opposed to this. The, I mean, this begs the question that like, or the statement that missed opportunity for a naming and committee to not actually be named itself. So it's like being laid out on a platter in front of us. So I'll let you guys, uh, do whatever you want.
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Mar 3, 2026
Presented H.B. 549, which would require Rocky Mountain Power and Enbridge to submit annual energy efficiency program reports to the Office of Energy Development, for transparency and state energy planning.
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Thank you, uh, committee. This, this comes from an interesting time. You, you may be familiar with, uh, on the Rocky Mount Power side, they serve roughly 80% of our state providing electric power and formerly Quest Star. Now Enbridge, uh, provides gas for even more than that. Uh, so they also provide energy efficiency programs, and it's going on 20 years. And so this is the type of program where if you get a new air conditioner, a new furnace, a new nest thermostats, a new insulation, uh, different things like that, uh, you can qual pay to get a rebate and it helps, uh, offset the cost of that measure. Uh, on the other side, we have the …
S.B. 236 Property Tax Exemption Process Amendments · House Revenue and Taxation Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Presented the bill on behalf of Senator Grover, saying it sets uniform statewide guidelines for property tax exemption applications, including a March 1 application deadline and appeal rights for counties and cities.
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You. Yeah, I'm speaking for Senator Grover. I'm the floor sponsor for Senate Bill 2 36. This comes from Salt Lake County and it, uh, helps, uh, deal with property tax exemptions. And so that's why we're here. And it's just trying to create a little bit of a uniform standard so that both the taxpayers and the different counties or the administrators, uh, are all lined up on the same guidelines across the state. There's some uniformity settings. So if somebody is applying for a property tax exemption, they have until March 1st of each year to apply for that exemption. And then, uh, on the county side or whoever's on the municipal city side that they have, uh, …
H.B. 563 Radon Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Introduces HB 563 on radon amendments, saying it adds certification guidelines for radon professionals, and turns the presentation over to Jacob Anderegg.
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Thank you, chair. Um, I'm here with Jake Andrew today. He's gonna do the majority of the speaking. Uh, this is a, a, a radon bill talking to the radon industry. There's some background in this industry where, uh, the sales guys typically shows up at the house and says, this is a very dangerous substance, and, uh, Jake will be able to speak to this. Mr. Ander will be able to speak to this more, but they then also have the solution. So, uh, this bill is sort of looking at this saying, we wanna add some guidelines and some structure to this so that when they do show up to your house, they actually are certified. They've done …
H.B. 563 Radon Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Says the testimony came from industry stakeholders who want a solution and that further discussion on standards and implementation is warranted.
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Um, uh, appreciate Representative Koford, uh, motion. We've heard a lot of testimony today. Both, I mean, all of it coming from within the industry and everyone wanting to work towards a solution. Um, so, uh, I don't know if, uh, Jake agrees, but I think, uh, it warrants further discussion and bringing, making sure everybody's there on the table and what those standards would look like and how it would be implemented. So If I may, sure.
S.B. 254 Extracted Natural Resources Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Spoke in favor of the bill, saying Utah is well positioned to lead on critical minerals with its mining, processing, academic, and manufacturing capabilities.
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Thank you. Uh, I agree with Representative Koford. The federal government has made it a priority, uh, made it well known that this is a priority for the country, and Utah is one of the rare, rare position states to jump on this opportunity where we have the mining capabilities, the processing capabilities, the, the scholastic academic institutions to back this up, as well as the technology and manufacturing capabilities here in Utah to make this, uh, hub moving forward for this, uh, for critical minerals and the technology in these areas. So, uh, very excited about this opportunity.
S.C.R. 9 Concurrent Resolution Regarding Critical Minerals Development and Funding · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Mar 2, 2026
Explained that the resolution urges the federal government and Utah's congressional delegation to help advance the critical minerals work, then asked the Senate sponsor if she had anything to add.
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Thank you. This is the counterpart to the previous bill. This is a resolution, uh, prodding our, uh, the federal government to, and our representatives in the, um, DC area to get behind our movements and help do everything they can to push on their end to make sure everything that we just talked about in the previous bill happened on the federal level. And that's it. Anything you'd like to add, Senator?
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Explains the differences between the fifth and second substitutes, noting work with the state auditor's office and Attorney General to fill gaps in the bill. · speaker not certain
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Uh, I'll waive You to explain the differences between the fifth substitute And second substitute. We've been, uh, yeah, we've been talking with the state auditor's office and the State Attorney General, working over some of the, uh, differences and the gaps where we were trying to fill in and make sure that we are all on the same page together as we move forward.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Says the sponsor has been working with the state auditor's office and the Attorney General on differences and gaps in the bill.
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We've been, uh, yeah, we've been talking with the state auditor's office and the State Attorney General, working over some of the, uh, differences and the gaps where we were trying to fill in and make sure that we are all on the same page together as we move forward.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Says the issue was addressed earlier in the third substitute.
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No. We dealt with that way back in third substitute where we put that out.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Says the law enforcement and public safety issue was addressed in the third substitute.
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No. We dealt with that way back in third substitute where we put that out.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Presents the annual data privacy amendments, including a change that routes complaints to the agency before the ombudsman, moving technology provisions to the interim, and removing the state data privacy auditor position while keeping audit duties in the state auditor's office.
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Thank you. This is the annual, uh, data privacy amendment as it comes out. This Office of Data Privacy is a relatively new offices as we look across the state. Uh, the Office of Data Privacy was created about three years ago, and Representative Jeff Moss rest in peace, uh, he would run this bill the last three years. And, uh, as this office matures, we continue to look at how we can, uh, use best practices across the state in all agencies, in our public education, in our cities, and go from using where there's piles of information of people's of sensitive records, uh, on desks or in our offices or in our computers, to how do we use …
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House floor debate (day 41) · Mar 2, 2026
Presents the annual data privacy amendments, including routing complaints to the agency before the ombudsman, moving certain technology provisions to interim study, and removing the state data privacy auditor position.
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Thank you. This is the annual, uh, data privacy amendment as it comes out. This Office of Data Privacy is a relatively new offices as we look across the state. Uh, the Office of Data Privacy was created about three years ago, and Representative Jeff Moss rest in peace, uh, he would run this bill the last three years. And, uh, as this office matures, we continue to look at how we can, uh, use best practices across the state in all agencies, in our public education, in our cities, and go from using where there's piles of information of people's of sensitive records, uh, on desks or in our offices or in our computers, to how do we use …
H.B. 437 Environmental Permitting Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 27, 2026
Presented HB 437, which would let applicants opt to have qualified, vetted third-party professionals prepare certain environmental permit applications before division review, with background and conflict-of-interest checks for those professionals.
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So I, this bill is about streamlining and making a couple agencies more efficient, so I will try to streamline and make my presentation more efficient. Thank you. Um, So this is, uh, at the request. We've been working with, uh, DEQ and Dogum to help streamline as part of the new director's efforts to make their, their division more efficient. And so is what it consists of is helping with the ups and downs as permits and applications come in. Uh, they can create a process for certain applications, certain permits that those can be done by vetted and qualified third party, uh, professional engineers, land surveyors, geologists, landscape architects, so people that are on a qualified list. It's …
H.B. 191 Airport Land Use Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Thanks the body for its help and support on the bill and says stakeholders are working on a possible solution, so he asks to circle the bill while that is explored.
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I would, I'd like to thank all the members of the body for their help and support in this bill and working with all the stakeholders. Uh, there are, uh, the stakeholders are working on a solution that might be a win-win for everyone. So would like to circle it while we see if that gets any legs.
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Explains that the bill requires utilities' energy efficiency rebate programs to submit an annual report to the State Office of Energy Development, funded through a surcharge on ratepayers' energy bills.
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Thank you. I'd, uh, I'd like to, I'd help to create this bill is working with, uh, representative from St. George and the Office of Energy Development on this bill. So I can speak to this bill and give some of the background on it. Uh, this comes as the state, uh, office of Energy Development is tasked with creating the state energy plan as they look at all the different types of energy and how much and where we need it and where it's going, uh, into our future. And this is looking at one little niche, one piece of that puzzle, which are energy efficiency rebates typically coming from the large utilities in the state, which is, uh, …
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House floor debate (day 38) · Feb 27, 2026
Explains that the bill would create an off-season committee to review state highway name designation bills, so that one name bill advances per session, and would limit designated signs to two per highway section, paid for by donations or the general fund.
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Thank you. I can speak to this bill. I helped put it together and was working with the different parties on the background of it, so just can help, uh, speak to it. Uh, each year we get named de designation bills, uh, and it keeps increasing every year. This year we had 12 different name designation bills. And so in the process of efficiency, both, uh, the Senate and the House we've been working together, we came up with a plan to create an off season, uh, committee with members from both, uh, legislative bodies that will come and any name bills will be submitted to the committee for review. They will hear 'em, they'll go through the process, …
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presents HB 549, which asks the Office of Energy Development to review annual reports from large utilities on their energy efficiency rebate programs, including customer classes, rebate amounts, energy saved, and rollout.
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Uh, thank you. I'll be speaking to sub one, and there should be an amendment also that was recently published. Perfect. Um, this is a pretty straightforward, simple bill. Uh, the Office of Energy Development has been tasked by the governor and by the state to sort of help develop an energy plan, a state energy policy moving forward that accounts for all sources, all resources, uh, needs, future developments, everything. And this is just adding in one little section into that that asks them to also, uh, look at if a large scale energy supplier or utility supplier, which would basically mean Rocky Mountain Power for Electric, or Enbridge used to be Quest Star, uh, Enbridge, uh, the gas …
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Says the substitute was crafted with help from Representative Jack and includes several tweaks and removals.
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Oh, yeah. So it started out, um, mostly I'd like to thank Representative Jack who is a heavyweight in this industry. He's been around, he knows a lot about, um, energy, and so he helped me craft this and narrow it down to get to a good spot. So, uh, we put, put some, a couple tweaks in, pulled some stuff out, and that's it.
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Explains that the reports provide transparency on how ratepayer money is spent and help the Office of Energy Development plan Utah's energy future.
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So the office of the first is transparency, just to see how the rate payers, the users', um, money is being spent in these areas. But, so there's transparency, but also with the Office of Energy Development, they've been tasked to help plan the future of Utah and the energy use. And so, uh, this helps. It's a piece of that puzzle as they look at where the power's coming from, how is it generated, where's it gonna be used in what markets and what segments, whether residential or commercial or data centers, or irrigation or across, excuse me, or across the board. This is one of the pieces of the puzzle of how the energy is used.
H.B. 549 Energy Efficiency Rebate Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Explains that the fiscal note dropped from $500,000 to $50,000 because the Office of Energy Development study was replaced with utility reporting to the office, which it can handle with current staff.
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Yeah, the, the original bill was, uh, we reversed it. It was saying OED was gonna do the study and that's why it came out at $500,000. And that was supposed to be backwards. That Rocky Mountain Power and Enbridge are reporting to OED, not OED, doing a study going the other direction. So the new fiscal note is 90% lower. So there's, there's a new fiscal note on sub one, is that correct? Yeah, It's 50,000 instead of 500,000. So 50,000 not 500. And, uh, OED has already said they can handle that internally with their current staff.
S.B. 72 Obscene Animal Abuse Material Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Asks whether AI-created and computer-generated pornography is covered by the bill.
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Thanks. Uh, sort of an interesting subject. Um, but I've been in other committee meetings where they've talked about AI created porn and computer generated porn, and, uh, that type of stuff. Has that been thought about or included in this area as well?
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Presented HB 491, which sets a committee review process and criteria for road designation requests, and explained an amendment on minority-party membership.
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Thank you, chair. Thank you. Committee. Um, so this is a pretty straightforward bill. It's sort of a shift in our policy, and it's a collaboration between, uh, both members, uh, both parties of the legislature. So the Senate side and the house side. This comes from road naming bills. We've had a record number of bills, uh, proposed this year to rename roads 12. So 12 Roads. This is a record. And so, uh, leadership is on both sides of tried to come up with a way to, uh, sort of filter this process and come up with a methodical approach to this, to, uh, still recognize, uh, important people that are, uh, important to our state and that …
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said the bill was drafted mainly around individuals and that the wording could be changed to include groups.
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Um, yeah, that's actually a good question. So, online 1 51, it talks about honors an individual. Maybe we could, uh, tweak that. So it says honors an individual or group. 'cause we were just mostly thinking about individuals since those were all 12 requests this Year. Okay. If, if you can move slowly, I'll go talk to Rachel and figure something out.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said a highway designation name would typically be the one displayed for that road under the bill.
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Well, so this, the, my rating of this is that Anos Highway would probably be that designation, then that would be the name designation.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said a route number would not change under the bill.
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No, that would just be the number of the road, but not the name associated, associated with
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Said the committee process is methodical and transparent and leads to a single choice.
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I think this is the spot. I think this is the, I think this is a good process that is methodical and helps funnel a lot of different choices down to a methodical process where, uh, they can be heard and it's transparent and gets to one choice. Yeah.
H.B. 491 State Highway Designation Amendments · House Transportation Committee · Feb 25, 2026
Summarized that the bill creates a formal designation process and does not prevent members from filing individual road bills.
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Thank you. And I would, I appreciate the comments, the questions I would throw out that I didn't hear the question today, but if there was a concern that we're trying to, um, silence somebody's voice from bringing this, they can still run a bill for a road designation on their own. You can do that still. But this creates a formal process where everything should funnel through for this process.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House floor debate (day 36) · Feb 25, 2026
Presents H.B. 511, which would give in-state bidders an edge in procurement scoring when final scores are close, to keep money and skills in Utah.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker Pro Tem. Uh, this bill comes from the question we were asking of, are there what looking at, uh, our state and finding ways to increase, uh, money into our economy, increase skills of the workers in our state and become a better overall stronger state. Uh, in the procurement division, their job is to, uh, produce bids, to analyze bids and, uh, proposals. RFAs, which are requests for abstracts, RFIs request for information. And so is what we're doing is, uh, passing a bill that as they take these bids for their different proposals, as they look at, uh, in-state bidders versus out-of-state bidders, and they look at the scoring matrix, whether it's the pricing …
H.B. 408 Data Sharing Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Thanked the sponsor and the AI office for their work on the bill, noting the subject changes quickly.
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I'd like to thank for, would like to thank Representative Fifi's, uh, hard efforts in, uh, in this, and also the AI office has, um, continued work on this subject and it continues to change very fast. So thanks for trying to stay up, uh, on the leading edge of everything.
H.B. 408 Data Sharing Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 24, 2026
Asked how a user would gather their data from a platform and move it to another platform.
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actually I do have a question if I, if I could represent FFI probably should have asked this during clarifying questions, so I apologize. Um, can you walk me through how this works? How do I gather my data and put it on like from, let's say, Google or Facebook or Instagram or whatever? How do I gather that and put it on another platform
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Presents H.B. 439, directing the state water engineer to create a template and work with counties, municipalities, and special water districts on 40-year water plans for future growth.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Pro Tem. Uh, this is coming out of the DNR Water division. As we've worked with different cities, special districts, municipalities, counties, uh, we are looking and trying to plan for water in the future. And as developments come up, they need to either in whatever development in that municipality, in water districts or special districts or counties, they need to show that they have the water already planned for their development. And if they don't, they need to do what's called anion, which is where they plan for that water. And as part of that, these three groups, the counties, the municipalities and the special districts need to do what's called a 40 year plan. …
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · House floor debate (day 35) · Feb 24, 2026
Summarizes that the bill brings all parties to the table to work together on water planning.
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Representative Shallenberger for summation. Thank you. This brings all parties to the table, helps them work together to a better future. Thank you.
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Speaks in support of the bill, saying he had concerns with the initial version and the sponsor worked with him on changes.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, a rise in support of this bill. Been working with the sponsor, had some, uh, big concerns with the initial bill. She's worked with us, so I'd like to thank the good sponsor from Antelope Island close to Antelope Island for her support and willingness to work on, uh, getting to a good spot in this bill. And we look forward to keep working on things.
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · House floor debate (day 34) · Feb 23, 2026
Supports the bill after working with the sponsor on earlier concerns and thanks her for the revisions.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, a rise in support of this bill. Been working with the sponsor, had some, uh, big concerns with the initial bill. She's worked with us, so I'd like to thank the good sponsor from Antelope Island close to Antelope Island for her support and willingness to work on, uh, getting to a good spot in this bill. And we look forward to keep working on things.
H.B. 545 Budgetary Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger noted the auditor's office has always worked within its budget without using the relief valve and asked why a change is needed now.
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Thank you, chair. One quick question, if I may. Yep. So just try and understand what I'm hearing, um, in the history of the auditor's existence here in Utah, you've existed within the budget, you've been fine with the budget, um, that that's completely different, not fine with the budget, you've made it work. You guys, the auditor It work, the Auditor's office has always Made it work. We've made it work, But I imagine, and there's, there've been this fund out there, this relief valve, right? Mm-hmm. But the auditor's office has always made it work within the budget, but I imagine there's been friction points at time. Mm-hmm. There's been Yeah. Conflict within the auditor's office and the …
H.B. 545 Budgetary Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger asked whether the witness works in the auditor's office.
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I have a question for the presenter, if I may. Just one quick question. Yeah. Two quick questions. Uh, do you work in the auditor's office?
H.B. 545 Budgetary Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger moved to adopt the first substitute.
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Oops. Sorry. I, there we go. I'd like to make a motion to Adopt first sub.
H.B. 545 Budgetary Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Rep. Shallenberger said the auditor's office is the only one with this valve language and that purse strings belong to the legislature.
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Yeah, I, I really appreciate, uh, state auditor cannon's, uh, presence or comments or his role of the office here. Uh, I recognize that an independent, there's the checks and balances that she brings her office is bringing to our state government. Uh, as we look at the checks and balances across the government, the legislative branch, executive branch, the judicial branch, we have the auditor, uh, we have the treasurer's office. This is the only branch that has this really valve language in there out of all the branches, but they're all checks and balances of each other. And as, uh, the good sponsor of the bill pointed out, um, we believe that the purse strings belong in the …
H.B. 360 School Athlete Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Moves to table the bill, saying the public comments show strong opposition.
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Yeah, I appreciate the public comments. We hear the resounding comments. Motion to table, uh, a motion to table is, is in order. Um, if it, so if that is the motion, there is, uh, a motion to table this bill. Uh, if you, the effective a motion to table is that it will not be brought back. Great. I think that, I think you guys would appreciate that this session. We didn't know what table was until Representative Albrecht. Okay. So the motion is to, to table the bill to the sponsor of the motion. It's not one knife, it's two knives. Yeah. In the bill. It's actually 23, but whatever he's counting.
H.B. 360 School Athlete Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 20, 2026
Says it is late in the session and that tabling would mean the bill is dead until next year.
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Yeah, thank you. I think we're so late in the session. Any, whether it's a holder table, doesn't matter. It's a no vote. It's a dead bill. And we'll revisit this next year and keep having those discussions go.
H.B. 437 Environmental Permitting Amendments · House floor debate (day 31) · Feb 20, 2026
Presents H.B. 437, saying it comes from DEQ and would let applicants use verified third-party outside contractors, at their own added cost, to prepare complex permitting work that DEQ then verifies, to streamline the process.
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Thank you. This bill comes from the division of, uh, environmental quality DEQ and Dogum. Uh, the di direct new director over there. He's making a focus on trying to streamline and make things more efficient as they review stuff. So this is one of those methods that helps create a streamlined pre uh, process for complex permitting to create a list of, um, verified third party outside contractors that, uh, somebody can choose to work with as an additional cost. And they can work with this third party engineer or outside permitting group to do a lot of the prep work, similar to like a paralegal and a law office. And so then that will come back and the …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Presented HB 511, which would add a 10% scoring bonus for Utah bidders in state procurement when proposals are relatively close, and said the bill does not raise prices or conflict with constitutional limits.
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Thank you committee. I saw it was Laura was gonna run back up to my office and I was like, I don't think I see anyone else here. So I'll stick around for a second. Um, thank you for your time today and thank you for your patience. I know it was on last time's agenda and so excited to be here today. Uh, this is, is this is dealing with the procurement office and the director of procurement is back here. And I'm sure he'd be happy to answer any questions and speak to the bill. Um, but this comes from sort of a Utah first approach with procurement. When the state does bidding on different projects and you …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said the local bonus is one line in the scoring matrix, does not change bid prices, and is not expected to increase contract costs.
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For these bids? Yeah, it doesn't affect the, the bid on the project at all. Just when they're, as they're analyzing the different bids, they're making a scoring matrix, a scoring sheet, uh, it might be a portion of the contract is going to how thorough the bid is put together, how thorough is their project proposal, how, uh, you know, how qualified are these people, uh, how, what's their background, what's their experience in similar programs? And they would get like a score, like out of 10 or out of 20 assigned a different criteria. Pricing would be one of those. And then they add 'em up and it usually goes to one of the bidders. And so we …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Explained that substitute one defines a Utah company and caps the Utah preference at 10% of the bid price.
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Looks like? Yeah, and I'm speaking to substitute one, which outlines that process. It says, uh, it, it specifies two things. The, a company, in order to be considered a Utah company, needs to be registered in Utah, have their primary place of business in Utah, and have to have been registered for at least a year so that someone can't game the system right before a bid and jump in line and then lower on, uh, in there it outlines that a maximum of 10% of the bidding price would be for the, for the Utah reference. Good question. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Thank you.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said the local-company item would be a yes-or-no line in the scoring spreadsheet and would not add program costs.
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Usually the cost goes up. Um, I mean this is, you're, they're gonna be using an Excel spreadsheet or a Google sheet. There's one line item where it says, are they a local company and they've submitted some paperwork and it's just a yes or no on, on the bid review. So they're not adding any additional costs on, on the cost of the program, the cost of the awarded, uh, bid, anything like that. It was just, it would just be a line item on the scoring matrix as they tabulate the scores.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said the price weight in the scoring matrix depends on the department's structure, and the intent is for the Utah preference to matter only when final scores are close.
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Um, I mean, it depends on what the point allocation is for the scoring matrix. I've bid on a lot of programs over the last 30 years. Normally I've had, I've seen bids where pricing is 10% of the value of the contract. So if I'm the highest bidder, then it's only gonna be worth 10 points or 10% of the, the, the bidding process. There's other times where, so there's been times where we've been the highest priced bidder. There's also been times where we've been the lowest price bidder and we've won and lost bids on either. So it, the, taking a step back, it's basically saying it's, and so the price, it would just be one of …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said similar preferential bidding clauses exist in other states and that the procurement office believed a similar provision was already in place.
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The, the discussion did come up. Uh, there's preferential bidding, uh, clauses like this in other states that have been around for quite a while. And as we looked into it, the response sort of came back is like, I don't know why we haven't been doing this already. So they were, they thought there was something already in statute like this and there wasn't.
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said he had not analyzed the tax revenue question and cautioned that the lowest bid is not always the best offer.
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No, that's a good question. I haven't gone down that rabbit hole yet. Um, I, I would like to respond to that though. With, um, sometimes the state, sometimes people tend to just go with the lowest bid offer, uh, or the lowest bid proposal or, or bid. I, I'd wanna make sure that that's not confused with the best offer. Uh, and construction, it often happens, the people go with the lowest offer. Those, then they then later regret that 'cause they're gonna get out on prices coming back later and going with one of the middle offers or higher offers would've just been better to begin with. 'cause it ends up not being as great of a deal …
H.B. 511 Procurement Amendments · House Government Operations Committee · Feb 19, 2026
Said the 10% figure came from his experience with bid preferences and was chosen to tilt close scores without shifting awards to less qualified bidders, and agreed the number could be changed.
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That just came from my, my experience, I've, for 20, not for the first 10 years, I was a technician, blowing out insulation, doing the lights. But after going getting an engineering degree, Uintah Law School, I then was writing proposals. So for the last 15 years, I've written proposals and I've seen, uh, preference given to small bidder certified companies or small business certified companies or, uh, veterans or women owned or minority companies. 10% is, is used in a lot of industries and it's, I didn't see a problem with it. It was seemed fairly standard and you got it or you didn't. And sometimes we got the bid, sometimes we didn't. It seems like a lot, but, …
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Speaks to the motion to circle the bill and notes that the floor sponsors are not present.
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Motion is to circle. We'd like to speak to it. Uh, representative floor sponsors not present.
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Commends the sponsor and supports adopting the substitute, with the understanding that the bill will be circled and work will continue.
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Uh, thank you. I just wanna commend, uh, representative Libe, uh, as we continue to work through these issues. And my understanding is as we adopt the sub, we'll circle it and continue to work on these issues and come to a good spot where everybody feels really good about this important subject. So I would support the, uh, adoption.
H.B. 372 Child Welfare Changes · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Supports adopting the substitute, commends the sponsor, and says work on the issues will continue after the substitute is adopted and circled.
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Uh, thank you. I just wanna commend, uh, representative Libe, uh, as we continue to work through these issues. And my understanding is as we adopt the sub, we'll circle it and continue to work on these issues and come to a good spot where everybody feels really good about this important subject. So I would support the, uh, adoption.
H.B. 303 Family Court Amendments · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Requests permission to ask the sponsor some questions.
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Thank you, Mr. Speak. Uh, speaker ProAm, uh, permission to ask some questions to the bill sponsor. Will the Sponsor yield to a question?
H.B. 303 Family Court Amendments · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Asks whether the bill could increase litigation costs or conflict between parties.
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Um, I'd like the intent of where this is going. Do you see if, uh, do you foresee any of, uh, possibilities where this may increase litigation costs or conflict between parties in this area?
H.B. 303 Family Court Amendments · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Asks for a general explanation of how the bill compares to current practice and whether it affects court technology.
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if you can, the, like, how the, this compares to the current status and then how this might affect upgrades and technologies that works into these court systems? Uh, is there a specific AR area, Mr. Speaker, or just in general on these four areas? Just, just in general would appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah,
H.B. 303 Family Court Amendments · House floor debate (day 30) · Feb 19, 2026
Supports the bill, saying it will help families reach peaceful resolutions.
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Thank you. Uh, this is an important area and I appreciate the good sponsors, uh, work on this. I think it's gonna impact the courts in a, in a good way and help families get to a peaceful resolution and, uh, I am wholeheartedly in support of it. Thank you.
H.B. 516 Landlord Communication Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Presents H.B. 516, which would let landlords terminate a rental agreement for imminent danger or for deficient conditions they cannot fix with the tenant in place, with 10 days to leave, and would allow termination after a pet bites someone.
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Uh, this is a pretty straightforward bill. Um, welcome Dave Todd from the, um, he's a landlord attorney and an expert in this industry. Uh, this bill just does a couple different things. It deals with dangerous situations in, uh, rented, uh, rented housing, uh, in two different areas. One would be where they are dangerous conditions that is, would be determined where imminent life, loss of life is, um, from a situation in house or significant physical harm. And if that is present, then the landlord can terminate the agreement, get 'em out of the house, away from the harm, and fix the condition. And then this also adds a condition where if there is a dangerous condition, um, …
H.B. 516 Landlord Communication Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Answers that the current statute leaves determining uninhabitable conditions to the landlord's judgment, and asks to bring in the attorney.
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Um, right now it's just, uh, specified online, 1 63. It says, if an owner believes that a the residential unit is not, have not habitable, uh, and he can't fix the problem with the tenant in there, then he could terminate the agreement. So it, so it's at the landlord's discretion on what is uninhabitable. Can I chime in here? Yes, please.
H.B. 516 Landlord Communication Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Says the existing statute already uses a 10-day period for habitability deficiencies and asks whether that is correct. · speaker not certain
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I'm happy to address that too, but representative, I'll jump in there. And, and the existing statute of the, uh, the existing statute on line 1 41, line 1 49, uh, and at least in, uh, line one 11, it already uses 10 days for deficiencies to before, before they can leave, before the termination, the agreement is terminated. Is that right?
H.B. 516 Landlord Communication Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Speaking to the motion to hold, says the sponsor and the housing coalition are close to agreement and he commits to continue talking with them to finish the bill.
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Um, yeah. I, I would. The partners that we've met here, the housing coalition, we've expressed, uh, willingness to commit to continue to talk with them. They've expressed willingness to continue to talk with us. We're very close, just to tidy this up, and they, they felt comfortable moving forward. As long as we commit to doing that, we do commit to that and, uh, would be happy to make sure we get that across the finish line.
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Asks whether cities are being forced to accept the proposal without a choice, and asks for an accurate response.
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Thanks. Um, Mr. Chair, one question, clarifying question, and I am pretty sure you covered this in your talk or in your, um, presentation, I've been reached out to by the cities I represent, and they're concerned that we're forcing this on them, that they won't have a choice in this matter as, uh, these are presented to their city. Is that a factual statement? And if so, if not, what would the accurate response be?
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Says the housing crisis calls for new ideas, that the proposal should be allowed to develop and be tested, and supports the motion.
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Yes. Thank you. Um, as we've heard from several people and we've discussed over and over talking with constituents, we are in a housing crisis. Um, we feel that our kids feel that the growing generation feels that and doing the same thing over and over grow up. Just building more homes is not necessarily solving the problem. We need new ideas. We need creative ideas. Several ideas, any ideas? And I think this is a new idea. Is it, uh, the best idea? I don't know. Let's keep talking about it. Is it a a viable idea? Yes. Is it at the final state where it's ready to go? Maybe let, uh, but I like it and I strongly …
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Questions whether defeating the bill would put cities on notice, and says he supports the bill and wants to see where it goes.
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Thank you. Um, I, I'm questioning some of the statements. I wonder if this does put the city's on notice if we kill it here today, or hold it that the first time it gets, the first time it's heard along this legislative process, it's removed from the process. Does that put the cities on notice? If I'm a city, I'm not very worried, but, um, I support this bill. I'm excited to see where it goes if it goes out.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Introduced H.B. 450 as a data privacy bill, describing cyber threats to state systems, the privacy office and commission, changes to the complaint process and training, and a new Truth in Surveillance disclosure section, and committed to keep working with law enforcement on their concerns.
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Okay. I'd like to welcome, uh, Chris Ba Bramwell, the director of the Data Privacy Office with me. Uh, wanted to give a little bit of a background with this before we jump into the details. This has come this, this was a part of Representative Jeff Moss's, uh, work the last couple years. And so that came through my committee, which is economic Development. This is the first time this is being held in this committee. So wanted to give a little bit of background before we jump into the details and back up. Uh, if we, if you're paying attention to what's going on out there. Uh, data privacy is a huge deal. The banks are constantly sending …
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Concluded the presentation and invited comments or questions.
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So, uh, that would conclude our presentation. We'd be welcome. Uh, we'd welcome any comments or questions.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Noted that the first substitute is online and is the version under discussion.
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Yeah, we, oh, yeah, I forgot to mention we're there, we're, there's been talking towards, uh, the first substitute that's online.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said warrant processes remain with law enforcement and the bill only requires disclosure that certain technologies are being used, possibly through budget reviews or reports.
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Um, Well, as Christopher mentioned, if it's a, through a warrant process or the law enforcement process that's handled on their end, and this is not gonna meddle with that, especially as, uh, representative go questioned in their operational tactics, that's in their realm and they handle that separately. This is meant to disclose if these types of technologies are being used and, and to the point. I, I don't know if it's still in there, I can't find anything that mentions high risk activities. Now we're continuing to work on the next version. And so if it is in there, we'll work on that. Um, but any of these technologies that are gonna be used in our communities or …
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said only a general disclosure that the technology is used in the community is needed, such as in the annual budget, avoiding operational tactics.
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No, uh, just the disclosure notice and like with Representative Gwen, in my discussions with him, he mentioned just in their annual budget, this is where it would naturally come up. Like, we're gonna be buying these stuff, it's gonna be used in our communities, uh, and we'd wanna avoid getting into their operational tactics. It was his word. And, uh, and sort of giving away their, their trade secrets, their secret sausage, or how they're actually using it in the day to day. So just a, a disclosure that it's being used in the community would be enough.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said the disclosure would identify the specific technology, such as license plate readers or facial recognition, being used in the community.
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They'd highlight the, the license plate readers or facial recognition or the whatever technology they may be implementing is going to be used in, in that community.
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Said he would keep working with law enforcement either way and noted surveillance is a small part of the broader data privacy bill.
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Okay. To the sponsor. Uh, I'd appreciate that We, uh, we've committed to continuing to work with the, uh, law enforcement community, and I wanted to zoom out also that, uh, the law enforcement and the use of these technologies we're working with them, making sure there's wording in there. But that's one small portion of the entire use of these technologies across the state, across the different agencies. And as we zoom out even more with this bill, that, that, uh, surveillance those technologies is a small portion of the entire data privacy bill. And that overall it would be, um, a significant efforts for the data privacy bill. So I, I am committed to working with the law …
H.B. 450 Data Privacy Amendments · House Political Subdivisions Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Thanked Rep. Gwynn and said he looks forward to working with law enforcement agencies.
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I'll wave. I'm excited to, I, I'm grateful for Representative Gwynn's passion and, uh, I'm excited to work with the law enforcement agencies, uh, no matter what happens.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · Senate Business and Labor Committee · Feb 18, 2026
Presented HB 404, which extends the existing birth-sex housing designation for shared intimate spaces from campus housing to privately owned off-campus housing.
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George. Thank you. Didn't, I didn't realize data privacy was such an exciting issue. Um, so sex de uh, this bill, 4 0 4 sex designated housing amendment last year, uh, the legislature we passed, uh, dorm room bill designating sex dorms, if you're male housing or female housing on college campuses for state housing, that it would be based off their birth sex, uh, in order to live in those. This, uh, slightly expands that to off-campus housing for private housing. So if you have an apartment that you're rep, uh, renting off campus for male or female housing apartments, that, that would be based off birth sex. So there's been some, uh, uh, real life incidences where, uh, …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents HB 30 on Wildlife Management Area amendments, describing a use fee replaced by an educational certification, a donation match, and service opportunities.
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uh, natural na uh, division Wildlife Resources, uh, comprehensive bill in that, uh, it impacts primarily the, uh, counties. The first and second class. What was done in that piece of legislation is it created a used fee to acce, uh, have access and crossover wildlife management area. We have several throughout the state. They're there to protect wildlife and particularly in times of winter and other times when, uh, they need that area to not, uh, be, uh, impacted for their birthing and so forth. In the spring, the main focus of the, of the agency was to make sure we're doing a better job educating and, uh, it was met with a lot of concern with the traditional …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate floor debate (day 29) · Feb 18, 2026
Presents H.B. 60, saying it clarifies that the state engineer considers issues directly related to beneficial use, water quality, quantity, and availability, leaving other public welfare issues to other agencies, and that it clarifies who is an aggrieved person for judicial review, along with technical changes.
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of the water, uh, there's a, there's an application made to the state water engineer. What it does is it, it, it clarifies that the state engineer will not consider reli rely upon, uh, excuse me, to determine whether a proposed plan would not provide on 9 2 0 8 would not prove debt. State eng state engineers charged determine whether a proposed debt plan would not prove detrimental to the public welfare. Under this section, the state engineer may consider only issues directly related to the benefici use of the water or the quality, quantity or availability of the water and use of the state. This leaves the other issues related to public welfare, to other agencies that are …
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Presents HB 439 as a response to a state audit, saying it directs the state water engineer to create measurable metrics so cities, counties and districts can prepare 40-year water plans by 2028, and notes a related Senate coordination clause.
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Uh, thank you committee. Thank you chair. Yeah. Speaking to the second, second substitute on this, um, start a presentation. I have the state water engineer, water engineer here with me. Uh, this bill comes, uh, after the result of a state audit and reviewing the state water plans across the state with the different cities, the special districts, the counties, and dealing with exactions as they'd build out neighborhoods or developments. Uh, they looked at, okay, how do we go about this? Do you have, do they have the proper water, the planning for the future? And technically they're supposed some of these areas, in order to do this, they need a 40 year water plan. Uh, they found …
H.B. 439 Water Planning Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Says the bill has received a unanimous positive recommendation from the water task force and a positive recommendation from the water commission, and invites questions.
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Thank you. And, uh, to add a little bit background, we have been through the water, the water task force with the unama unanimous, uh, positive recommendation as well as to the water commission, uh, also receiving a positive recommendation. And then here we are today. So that's our presentation. Would love any questions or comments?
H.B. 501 Water Modifications · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asked whether cities that planned ahead and saved are being penalized compared to those that did not.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Two short questions, if I may bet. Um, one of the questions I hear from, or the concerns I hear from Provost City and some of the districts in my area are that some are, they feel like they're managing things. They're able to anticipate and save money for the future, for future projects. And so they are maybe being penalized for planning ahead and they're saving, whereas other cities, other municipalities or water districts may not. And they compared it similar to like the student debt for the person that's paying off their student debt over time. And then, uh, the government, the federal government offered to just pay off the other student debt for, …
H.B. 501 Water Modifications · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asked whether addressing infrastructure now is less costly than delaying it.
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I appreciate that. That's a good answer. The other question I would have is, uh, for those that maybe have not planned into the future, and whether it's 'cause they're a small city or a town or whatever reason, if they continue to kick the can down the road, it's one of those things like, it's gonna be significantly more expensive down the road if you don't address it now, it seemed. So helping everybody come to the table to address these issues now is, yeah, it might, there's gonna be some pain there, but it's gonna be significantly less painful than down the road. Is that a fair, fair question?
H.B. 375 Outdoor Recreation Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks how the division will avoid administrative growth as its staff and funding have expanded.
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Thank you. Thank you, director for being here. Thank you representative for running this huge fan of these programs. Um, I guess I I have one question, Mr. Uh, chair, and that's, it's at your office has grown a lot over the last five years from like five employees to 50, and it's changed for a while. You were doing, um, law enforcement a little bit in your office, and now, now every there's a lot of dynamic movements in there, and as you address the funding, how do you, um, make sure you don't have admin creep and just with the expenses and the expansions and just a lot of stuff in there, the, the money's going to actual …
H.B. 375 Outdoor Recreation Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks what evidence led the division to move Every Kid Outdoors from a pilot program to a long-term initiative.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. Great. And, uh, outdoor recreation has been a great driver, uh, in terms of, uh, economics, uh, economic development and quality of life. One of the reasons people like living in Utah, what is it about this, uh, every Kid Outdoors initiative or, uh, what evidence did you see there that you made you want to take it from a pilot program to a, uh, a long-term initiative?
H.B. 375 Outdoor Recreation Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks whether the substitute bill has already been adopted.
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And I think that's, uh, Representative Shallenberger again, Thank you, chair. Do we already have the sub adopted for this?
H.B. 375 Outdoor Recreation Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend H.B. 375, first substitute, out of committee.
▶ Watch at 45:35Read what they said
Uh, I'd like to, wait, Wait, wait. Maybe not. Let's, let's check that. Yes, it was adopted in rules. Okay. It is. Thank you. Yeah. Yep. Okay. With that said, I'd like to make a motion for a, a positive, positive motion for HB 3 76 sub one out of our committee.
H.B. 519 Unclaimed Property Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks whether a three-year period without owner contact is a reasonable presumption for volatile digital assets.
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Thank you Chair. Uh, this is not a dumb question. I'm just kidding. No, I actually appreciate everything that's going on here. I agree with it. Uh, fundamentally, I have a question, though, on the timeline with three years, is that a good presumption if there's no contact or indication from the owner that three years is enough? I know it, it seems like maybe, is that the viewpoint? That it's more of like a bank account or checking account where people are using it regularly versus, uh, long-term investment? Uh, especially with the volatility over the last six years in, in, uh, digital currencies that, you know, it's up and then it's down, and then it's up again by …
H.B. 519 Unclaimed Property Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Asks what counts as activity by the owner of an asset.
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So one more question. Does that mean that they haven't logged into their account to just check the account, or does that mean that they haven't bought or sold any of their assets?
H.B. 519 Unclaimed Property Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 17, 2026
Says the timeframe is a concern across many states and thanks the sponsor.
▶ Watch at 1:00:14Read what they said
No, I appreciate that. This is a, it actually is a concern across many states. I'm glad we're addressing it. Thank you.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Presented HB 192 as a cleanup bill that would remove the state's $40 cap on mandatory safety inspection fees so shops can charge market rates.
▶ Watch at 1:07:00Read what they said
Thank you. Thank you for letting me, uh, come before you today. And house Bill 1 92. This is more of just a cleanup bill. If you remember back five plus years ago, we had to go get our car safety inspection every year. They'd check your blinkers, your headlights, your taillights, and then we stopped doing that. And, uh, just Uintah a different method. But they're still in the books that require a mandatory safety inspection fee of $40. So if you're buying a new car or something like that, you take it in no matter what the inspection is gonna cover. Uh, they can only charge $40. It might be bumper to bumper transmission axles, engine checks, anything. …
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said a disclosure requirement was included in the first substitute.
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Okay. Before they actually do the work and then say, you owe me $40. What's that? 40? Your bill. Yeah, that was the first substitute in there was disclosure.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said data from the State Tax Commission showed about 35,000 inspections out of roughly 3.5 million vehicles registered last year. · speaker not certain
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Model? I've talked to the state tax commission and they sent me data. They said three and a half million cars were registered last year and roughly 35,000 inspections. So 1% or less. So they Actually record with the tax commission. Well, it's get, because they charge a safety something. I don't know. It gets recorded out. It gets recorded as a safety fee. Yeah.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Said a few vehicles still require a safety inspection, but such inspections are now rare. · speaker not certain
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And, and there are still a few vehicles that we do require to have a safety Right. Inspection on. So Yeah, I know. You know, anyway. Yeah, but there's not a lot anymore, right?
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Presents House Bill 60 substitute, saying it clarifies the state water engineer's role in reviewing water applications and does not change who can protest or complain.
▶ Watch at 1:41:09Read what they said
Condensed version. Thank you. Um, I would like to thank the state water engineer for joining me today. This is House Bill 60. This comes from the division of Natural Resources. And, um, the long, the long story short is we've gone through the, the Water task force. We've gone through the Water commission. Uh, we've gotten some great feedback with Representative Carl Albrecht coming out of the House committee. He recommended making sure that we listen to the voices and the feedback that we're getting the different parties. Uh, we've made a substitute. And so this bill is really does a couple things that redefines and just clarifies the state water engineer's role. That her job is to, uh, …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says temporary change permits are already posted on the state water engineer's website, so the process is transparent.
▶ Watch at 1:44:08Read what they said
Yeah, and I, I, I would add also there was, um, some proposed language about temporary permits or temporary change permits and making sure that there's transparency there. They are already posted on the state water engineer's website, so there's no, it's not a, um, dark process that's done in a backroom. It's, everything is transparent there. It's on the state's website, so it's been addressed also. So that, that's our presentation.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Summarizes that the bill reflects feedback from many groups and task force members and was vetted over time.
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to Summation representative. No, I appreciate the people's feedback today. The people from the various groups, the Audubon Society Stewardship, Utah Trout Unlimited, friends of the Salt Lake, Senator Stratton with the Water Commission, the feedback that we got from the 200 plus task force members. And, uh, it's been a, it's, this was not put together like in a back closet. It's been beat up and vetted along the way, and I appreciate everybody's feedback, uh, that came today.
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Presents HB 30, which adds a required education video for wildlife management areas and allows donations to support them, and describes public feedback and partner groups supporting the bill.
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You. Uh, I'm joined today with Chelsea Duke from Division of Wildlife. So this is a part of a cleanup, cleaning up a loophole from a, a wildlife bill of last year dealing with wildlife management areas. We have nearly 150 of 'em around the state. One of the largest is right outside Senator Stratton Denies house, uh, Senator. Uh, it's the Tempos WMA. And after the session, we started getting a lot of emails, uh, 'cause it required people to buy a fishing license to go ride a bike, to go hiking, to go trail running in the foothills. And, um, I want to appreciate Senator Owens and Senator Stratton for meeting and getting together with the Division of …
H.B. 438 Artificial Intelligence Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Moves to adopt the first substitute to HB 438.
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Beat you to the, oh, yes. To make a motion to adopt as that first substitute or Yep. Uh, first substitute. Yep. Okay.
H.B. 438 Artificial Intelligence Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Says he likes the substitute's changes and that the sponsor and office listened to feedback.
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Would you like to speak to that motion? Yeah, I like the changes and, uh, the Representative Fiefia and the office they're making here, I feel like they've really listened to the people and the feedback and are making some good changes and appreciate what they've done.
H.B. 438 Artificial Intelligence Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Moves to favorably recommend HB 438 as amended by the first substitute.
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Yeah. I'd like to make a positive motion for HB 4 38 to pass it out.
H.B. 437 Environmental Permitting Amendments · House Public Utilities and Energy Committee · Feb 12, 2026
Introduces HB 437 as a way to streamline environmental permitting by letting applicants use certified third-party professionals for preliminary review, while keeping environmental checks, public comment, and appeals in place.
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Thank you everyone for having us here today. Uh, HB 4 37. This goes back to my background as I come into here. Graduated mechanical engineering. And so I try to look at stuff and how can we make stuff more efficient? And I think this achieves two things. We're trying to streamline stuff, make it more efficient, but also prevent government bloat, right? Trying to expand. So is what this proposes. This comes from our friends over at DEQ and division of, uh, gravel mining doum over in DNR. And this creates, as workflows increase or decrease as the ebb and flow. It creates a optional permitting process. An expedite expedited process where especially on complex permits, they can …
S.B. 40 Business Entity Amendments · House floor debate (day 24) · Feb 12, 2026
Presents S.B. 40 as a recodification of business entity laws from the Division of Corporations, creating a uniform filing process across entity types, and says he is open to questions.
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Thank you Speaker. This is a re codification bill coming from the division of corporations come through the business, uh, interim committee and it takes all the different types of business organizations, nonprofits, corporations, LLCs, digital autonomous organizations, uh, uh, all of those and their different codes and different types of areas have slowly built up, uh, a lot of messy code. And so this has been a large reification effort to bring all those into what they're calling a hub and spoke approach where they're gonna have a uniform filing system. So business owners like myself, know what we need to file when renewals, terminations, anything. It has a uniform filing, uh, process, uh, regardless of what the type …
S.B. 41 Business Entity Technical Amendments · House floor debate (day 24) · Feb 12, 2026
Says SB 41 is the sister bill to one just passed and updates the code numbers so they are aligned into one code.
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Thank you. This is the sister bill to the one we just barely passed. This takes all the actual code numbers and aligns them into one code. So this is just updating the actual code numbers with all the effort and all the reification that we just passed. And that's it. Thank you.
S.B. 40 Business Entity Amendments · House floor debate (day 23) · Feb 11, 2026
Says he has a couple of questions for Representative MacPherson that he wants to resolve before coming back to the bill.
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I just have a couple questions with Representative MacPherson that we're just trying to resolve and circle back to.
S.B. 41 Business Entity Technical Amendments · House floor debate (day 23) · Feb 11, 2026
Representative Shallenberger moves to circle the bill and notes it is a sister bill to the previous one, so the same applies.
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Shallenberger. Motion to circle also, this is a sister. Oh, That motion is ordered as I speak to it. This is a sister bill to the previous bill and so same applies.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House floor debate (day 22) · Feb 10, 2026
Says the bill expands last year's law on male and female housing in dormitories and shared housing to off-campus housing where residents share intimate spaces, bathrooms, or living spaces, with assignments based on birth sex rather than declared sex.
▶ Watch at 31:55Read what they said
Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this bill expands a little bit on a bill we passed last year, uh, dealing with same sex housing, male and female housing, specifically dormitories or shared housing spaces. This is slightly expanding it to off-campus housing where it's targeted to male or female housing, uh, specifically where there is shared intimate spaces, shared bathrooms or shared living spaces. And, uh, in those circumstances, it would be based off of the applicant's birth, sex. No, they're declared sex. That is it. Thank you, Representative Shallenberger.
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Reads questions from city council members and mayors about whether the bill erodes city authority.
▶ Watch at 1:16:10Read what they said
Uh, thank you. I wanted to read some of the questions I've got from my city council members and the mayors trying to get some clarification for them. Um, would your bill and the way this is written or their proposed changes, does it Helper, does it erode the authority of the cities, uh, in, in place of the legislative audience, in place of the legislature, in the state?
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asks whether the bill would create a preferred land use that overrules local zoning.
▶ Watch at 1:17:11Read what they said
Thank you. Um, may I have some more questions? Yes, chair. Yep. Thank you. Um, would this create a preferred land use that would overrule local zoning?
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asks whether the bill undermines city planning for infrastructure.
▶ Watch at 1:17:29Read what they said
Thank you. Uh, another question is, cities are planning out the future growth, you know, electric, uh, electric, sewage, water, and the, uh, infrastructure. Does this undermine the city's ability to plan for the appropriate infrastructure?
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asks whether the 30-day or five-day windows could let bad projects slip through.
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Thank you. And, and two more quick ones. I think, uh, my rep, my friend, my name representative from uh, Harriman also mentioned these. Does it create whether through the 30 day window or a five day window, does it create cracks through which bad development or bad projects can slip through?
H.B. 184 Small Lots and Starter Homes Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Feb 9, 2026
Asks whether the bill puts a burden on cities to review informal sketches or drawings.
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Thank you. And, uh, one last one. Does this put more of a burden on cities to review sketches or non-professional drawings where it might be on the back of a napkin or just very informal type thing that now they, they have to take seriously as legitimate proposals If there is some intermediate word that gets it across the idea better or more clearly so that it's not a, a napkin with a scribble on it?
H.B. 348 Dedicated Water Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks whether the priority processing for dedicated applications would push other applications to the back of the line.
▶ Watch at 1:40:23Read what they said
Okay. Thank you Mr. Chair. Um, couple quick questions for the good sponsor. This. So this bill has priority processing, moving stuff to help streamline get stuff to the front of the line as a counter effect. What does that end up kicking to the back of the line? Does that mean municipal, agricultural other, prior, other applications? I'm gonna let Theresa answer that for you.
H.B. 348 Dedicated Water Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks about controversy over how the Colorado River demand management program has been quantified and whether the bill will help show water reaching downstream.
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Thank you. That's it. Thank you. Okay. Sorry. Thank you. Her percent two that answered all my questions. Okay. Her center of two. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, you know, we, we, uh, quite a bit of your, uh, presentation was dealing with a demand management program in the Colorado River. And, uh, I assume, you know, um, we had quite a bit of controversy on how the, how the Demand management program is, has played out and, and has been, uh, quantified. And, and, uh, is this gonna help with, uh, are we actually gonna see how, see if water makes it downstream with this, uh, will this help, uh, help determine that? Mr. Chair? Go ahead.
H.B. 348 Dedicated Water Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 5, 2026
Asks how the state will determine whether dedicated water is diverted or actually reaches its intended destination.
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I, I'd like to continue, if I may. Go ahead. So, uh, you know, in our demand management we've had quite a bit of, of question of whether, uh, anything's been actually been delivered or not. And, uh, are we, is this gonna help us determine whether uh, water actually makes it to where it's, uh, intended to? Willis, do you feel we have an opportunity or do you, is, and I'm curious about, um, how are we gonna see that it doesn't get diverted if, if upstream gets, uh, gets, uh, dedicated? How are we gonna determine whether it, it makes it to where it's intended to?
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Presents H.B. 192 as a cleanup bill that removes the $40 maximum fee on vehicle inspections so the market sets the price.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is more of a, just a small cleanup Bill. If you remember, every year we had to get our cars, uh, have a safety inspection done where they check your blinkers, your headlights, your wipers, the different things of your car. Uh, we have a cap fee on there of $40. We got rid of the safety inspection, the mandatory safety inspection, but we did never, we never got rid of the mandatory $40 fee. So now if you take your car in for, uh, inspection, whether you're just checking the headlights taillights or doing a full bumper to bumper, uh, deep inspection, the most they can charge is $40. This simply eliminates the fee …
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Explains that inspection providers must post and disclose their fees, including hourly rates and expected time.
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Uh, yeah, we added language that they need to post the fee and it has to be disclosed in the, the, in the office so you can see what you're getting. If it's an hourly fee, if 15 minutes, you know what you're getting. If it's gonna take two hours, you know what you're gonna be paying.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Says customized agreements can be made on the customer's own terms with the dealer or station without the posting requirement.
▶ Watch at 30:57Read what they said
Not if you just agree on whatever you're agreeing on that have done with your car. You can agree on your own terms with the, the auto dealer.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Says the bill is not expected to raise costs and describes current emissions inspection fees along the Wasatch Front, which are set by county.
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No. No. And if I can expand on that just a tiny bit, uh, the emission along the Wasatch front, we still have required emissions annually and those are now dictated by county. So up in, uh, Weber County, they have capped that at $40, I think $40 or $45 per emissions inspection down in Utah County. We just let the market decide and they range anywhere from 30 to $45. So actually less down in Utah County where it's just a free market.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Says safety inspections are required only for certain vehicles such as rebuilt street-legal conversions, custom kit cars, and salvage titles, and that about 90 percent of vehicles require none.
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Uh, safety inspections are required in three circumstances. If you're bringing like a four wheeler side by side, trying to get it street worthy, so putting tail lights on it, uh, a shop needs to confirm that it actually is street worthy. If you're building a custom kit car confirming that it's actually road worthy or salvaged titles, uh, getting those back on the road confirming that those would be, uh, highway safe. And I've checked with, uh, the tax commission we have, last year we had 3.5 million cars registered in the state of Utah, and approximately 1%, so around 35,000 of those were salvaged titles. So the only ones that are required out of that, that need a …
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House floor debate (day 17) · Feb 5, 2026
Gives closing summation saying the bill removes government restrictions on businesses.
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Thank you. And, uh, as Representative Hansen, uh, excitedly pointed out, this is one of the few circumstances we're getting government out of the way, uh, for businesses instead of putting further restrictions on them. And, uh, I'm excited for that also.
S.B. 40 Business Entity Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Feb 4, 2026
Explains that the bill consolidates business entity statutes into one uniform section so filers use the same process, and that S.B. 41 mainly renumbers code.
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Working. Can you hear me? Lemme turn you on. There. There, there you go. Thanks. I feel like I was just here. So, uh, I'm excited to be back. I was actually here in the Business Labor Committee during interim, so it was fun being part of this process during the summer and during the interim meetings. Uh, like he said, this is a really big bill, but there's no fundamental changes in the business, uh, world, in the division of corporations. Uh, we're moving over the course of the years. A little bit of background is, over the course of the years, you had, uh, the different types of businesses, corporations, LLCs, nonprofits, uh, digital autonomous organizations, different groups. …
H.B. 392 District Court Amendments · House floor debate (day 16) · Feb 4, 2026
Supported the bill, saying a three-judge panel could reduce divisiveness by making any single decision harder to attack as biased.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Four attorneys in a row. Ugh, no. Um, I look at this as a slightly different angle, and I, one of the number one overall topic I hear from my district are the people are sick of the contention, the divisiveness and the fighting that's going on in our cities, in our state and federally. And so I sort of look at this as a pivot to a different angle. We look at what happened over the last year. We had one judge that very, um, the decisions were created, very divided camps. Two divided camps where one side was saying, this is a judge of virtue encouraged to stand up for what was right. And …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Presents H.B. 30 as a follow-up cleanup to last year's wildlife management area law, focusing on user education, voluntary donations, and service days in WMAs.
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Thank you Mr. Speaker. Uh, this is the Wildlife Management Amendment bill. A follow up from last year as a cleanup. Uh, we spent the last six months talking with all the different stakeholders in this group. Uh, the Sportsman caucus, the D-W-R-D-N-R, the recreation group, and the consensus we've come to after a lot of meetings, a lot of time spent on this is, uh, the focus is on educating the people that are gonna be accessing WMAs and making sure there's an educational component. The primary component, uh, that they understand the purpose of the WMA. There might be seasonal closures, specific rules to various WMAs and that they can respect and, and help take care of those. …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Explains that trailhead signs and a short Division of Wildlife video will ask users to learn about each WMA and then whether they want to donate.
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Uh, so the process that we've come up with is on signs at trail heads, um, just online. They'll, the d Division of Wildlife is gonna be creating a short two or three minute video that, uh, they expect people to watch and learn about what the different WMAs are about, whether it's a bird refuge or up in the foothills or mountains or somewhere around the state. And so, watch the video, say, I've done this, and then it'll ask whether they wanna donate to that specific WMA or the WMAs in general.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the substitute clarifies some confusing wording after talks with conservation and other groups.
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Uh, yeah. Uh, this is a water bill has come out. Some of the wording has been a little bit confusing as we've talked with different conservation environmentalist groups and just some different parties, so it helps clarify and rewrite some of the languages. Just make it a little clearer.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the substitute rewords unclear language after talks with conservation groups and other parties, to make the bill clearer.
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Uh, yeah. Uh, this is a water bill has come out. Some of the wording has been a little bit confusing as we've talked with different conservation environmentalist groups and just some different parties, so it helps clarify and rewrite some of the languages. Just make it a little clearer.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Explains the bill clarifies the State Water Engineer's role to review only water issues, says it was developed publicly with the water task force and commission, and says it does not limit protest rights.
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Thank you. Uh, this bill comes from the State Water Engineer's Office, and the intent is to clarify the State water Engineer's role. Uh, her office gets about 16,000 permit applications a year. And over the years, she's been tasked with reviewing more and more things that are not related to water, including, uh, city zoning issues, water district board disputes, socioeconomic issues, and various other things. And so this is helping establish guidelines to help the water engineer stay in her lane and say, your job is to review water issues only. And the clarified language that we've added is that it does address beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability. So talking with some of these groups, including Trout …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Explains the bill clarifies the State Water Engineer's role to water-only matters, says it does not limit protest rights, and notes that the water task force and water commission passed it unanimously after a public process.
▶ Watch at 27:38Read what they said
Thank you. Uh, this bill comes from the State Water Engineer's Office, and the intent is to clarify the State water Engineer's role. Uh, her office gets about 16,000 permit applications a year. And over the years, she's been tasked with reviewing more and more things that are not related to water, including, uh, city zoning issues, water district board disputes, socioeconomic issues, and various other things. And so this is helping establish guidelines to help the water engineer stay in her lane and say, your job is to review water issues only. And the clarified language that we've added is that it does address beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability. So talking with some of these groups, including Trout …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says protesting and litigation standing are different, and the bill does not change the ability to protest.
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Okay. Uh, if I may, they're very different things. Protesting is when an application comes in, you can just protest the application and they have to review it. This does nothing to, uh, to change or, uh, update somebody's ability to protest a bill. The litigation comes on the backend. And as with any lawsuit in any court, you need proper standing to show that you've actually been injured by that litigation, by that effort.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the State Engineer can consider analysis performed by other departments such as DEQ.
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Uh, the state engineers said that she can pass a water bill, uh, subject to or based on also any analysis that might be performed by another department, whether it's DEQ or other divisions within DNR or something, another state division.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the state engineer may consider analysis performed by other state departments, such as DEQ, when deciding a water application.
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Uh, the state engineers said that she can pass a water bill, uh, subject to or based on also any analysis that might be performed by another department, whether it's DEQ or other divisions within DNR or something, another state division.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the State Engineer applies beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability, and other matters go to other agencies.
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That's a good question. Uh, I'm just, uh, I'll repeat what I have had my discussions with the state engineer. Is she repeats over and over if it falls within the guidelines of beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability, that is within the purview of water applications, anything else would be covered by other agencies.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Says the state engineer has indicated that matters within beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability are handled by water applications, and other matters go to other agencies.
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That's a good question. Uh, I'm just, uh, I'll repeat what I have had my discussions with the state engineer. Is she repeats over and over if it falls within the guidelines of beneficial use, quantity, quality, and availability, that is within the purview of water applications, anything else would be covered by other agencies.
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Shallenberger asks whether the sponsor will yield to a question.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the sponsor yield to a question? Representative Faye, will you yield to a question?
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Shallenberger asks whether anyone has been ticketed for not signaling when entering a roundabout.
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you. Uh, at first glance, this seems like such a silly issue as, uh, the representative from Vernal brought up. Seems like as you're entering a roundabout, the natural direction is to just go with the flow. You're not turning left, you're following the flow. My question is, has anyone ever got a ticket for not signaling when entering a roundabout? Is this even a real issue?
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Shallenberger says he asked highway patrol officers about the signaling law, that they were unsure whether it is enforced, and that he supports the bill.
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Thank you. And, uh, I would support this bill. I asked the five, uh, highway patrol guys at the X-ray machine. I was like, is this the law you do have to signal when entering a roundabout? One of 'em said yes. The other four said, I don't know. And I said, would you give a ticket if someone didn't signal when they entered a roundabout? And they all shook their head, no. But apparently people have, I would support closing this loophole and go with the flows of the traffic. I support this, this bill.
H.B. 128 Traffic Amendments · House floor debate (day 15) · Feb 3, 2026
Shallenberger says signaling helps following drivers slow down and anticipate turns, so he will not support the bill.
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Representative er, Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Um, I, I appreciate the, um, the feelings of, of what they're trying to do here. The sponsor is trying to do, but I'm trying to imagine someone behind following who doesn't know that there's a roundabout ahead, part of signaling lets people know to slow down and that there's something up ahead and, you know, if they're putting on their right blinker, then they know that they're moving. And it just seems like it would help the flow of traffic better as this is something we do for every single turn we do. And so, um, for that reason, I won't support this bill. And, um, I think we need to spend our …
S.B. 43 Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Asks how the advocacy office's purpose has been refined since the bill was first proposed and compares it to ratepayer advocate offices in other states.
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Yeah. Thank you Mr. Chair. So, I remember when the bill came last session and when it originally came here, it was to, the proposal was almost to dissolve your office and just eliminate it mid audit, like before, while the audit was just still collecting data and just eliminate it entirely. And then we, uh, tweaked that, let the audit finish its thing and then let let it take its course. And it sounds like it's been a little bit of a refiner's fire as you sharpen the purpose of your office. I was wondering if you could, uh, maybe highlight some of the, um, things that have been refined and brought in with a, a better purpose into …
S.B. 43 Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moves for a positive recommendation of Senate Bill 43 to the House.
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I'd like to make a motion for a positive recommendation on what is this Senate Bill 43 to the house.
S.B. 42 State Weed Committee Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Feb 2, 2026
Moves to place SB 42 on the consent calendar.
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I'd like to make a motion for the, uh, send this to the consent calendar. Make a motion to send this to the consent calendar if we can incur.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Presented the bill as a narrow expansion of last year's state-owned same-sex housing law, letting off-campus or private single-sex housing with shared bathrooms or bedrooms base eligibility on birth sex.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me here. Um, this, this, if you remember last year we did, uh, the state owned same sex housing bill, which dealt with school dorms. And it was based off of the birth, sex, uh, for male or female housing. Uh, this is was for universities. This is sort of tagging onto that a little bit and dealing with maybe off-campus housing or private housing. Uh, also applying to same-sex housing. So if you're, uh, offering a female apartment or a male apartment, this is saying if there's, uh, and shared intimate space, a shared bathrooms or shared bedrooms in an all female apartment or an all male apartment, that the applications in order …
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Explained the amendment on line 202 changes a paragraph reference from 5(b)(1) to 6(b)(1).
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Speaking to the amendment on line 2 0 2, which just changes a reference to a paragraph instead of five B one, it goes to six B one.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said the bill has nothing to do with residency or immigration status and only applies to housing advertised as single-sex, using birth sex.
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Well, it doesn't have, Is what this field does, Doesn't have anything to do with Utahans, non UANs or immigration status, nothing of that. So It just has to do with their, um, just When the, if it's, if it's advertised as a single sex housing, all female housing, all male housing, and they're checking the box, I'm a female, I'm a male, then it is off of their birth sex.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said lines 203-204 limit the bill to dormitories, boarding houses, shared rentals, group living, or private landlords where single-sex housing already exists.
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nothing to do with Well, Government it is limited. They do in line 2 0 4 and 2 0 3, it's, they try to narrowly tailor it to a dormitory, a boarding house, a shared rental property or other group living accommodations or a private landlord. So it's like traditional areas where it's, there's, we already have female housing or male housing in the community.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said he did not think so and that federal discrimination law would take precedence over the state code.
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It? We don't think so. And again, we're trying to narrowly tailor this, that if there was some type of federal discrimination designation, then we're saying the federal law, the federal discrimination law is gonna trump this code.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said he was not familiar with the requirements attached to federal loans.
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Exception. I'm not familiar with the requirements for a federal loan if what type of, uh, the designated classes they have in their groups. So,
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said the language mirrors last year's bill, so any problem would also exist there.
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And, and I think this sort of piggybacked, I think that language might also be on last year's build tying because this is trying to just very narrowly sort of tie a loophole for off-campus housing type situations. And so if that was a problem in this one, it's gonna also be a problem probably in last year's as well. Alright. Okay.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said it is up to the owner and described a scenario of a transgender applicant arriving at female housing as the motivation for the bill.
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Well, I think that, yeah, I'm sure that would, it's up to them whether how they wanna run their property. Right, okay. So it gives them the ability, so you don't have surprises where five people show up and then someone that, so the real life scenario is someone showed up, there's five people that showed up, one person showed up that checked the box, says, I'm, uh, I'm a female. And they were just beginning the process. So they, uh, still had all the male plumbing.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said advertising is up to the provider, with screening based on birth sex for housing advertised as single-sex.
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Uh, the intent is if it's being advertised as an all female housing or all male housing that, I mean, it's up to them how they wanna advertise it, but their screening would probably be based off just if you're checking the box, the intent is that you were born as a woman or you were born as a male, if, depending on where you're trying to live. Not sure exactly what you were asking with that, but that was the intent.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Opposed the motion to hold, saying the bill is narrowly tailored and intended not to violate federal law.
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Um, no. I, I I think we've tried to keep this very narrowly tailored to one of the common dormitory boarding houses typically shared, uh, spaces that are intimate shared bathrooms, shared bedrooms that are typically female housing or male housing, and trying to keep this very narrowly tailored. And to address representative Ballard's question from the very beginning, we've tried to make sure that this is not violating any current constitutional, um, or federal laws. So you be opposed to Vote So opposed to the motion to hold? Yes.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Explained the amendment fixes a typo on line 202, changing a reference to 6(b)(1). · speaker not certain
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It was on line 2 0 2 where instead of referencing section five B one or i, it changed it to six B one. It was a typo
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Opposed the motion to hold and agreed to keep working on the bill.
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I'd be opposed to the motion to hold and, uh, agree to continue to work with this as it works its way along.
H.B. 404 Sex-Designated Housing Amendments · House Business, Labor, and Commerce Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Waived closing, thanked the public, and committed to working on a disclosure notice.
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I'll waive great comments. Thank you for the public's comments. Thank you for your comments. It's, um, appreciate those. I commit to working with the disclosure notice. And,
H.B. 352 Higher Education Alignment · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Asked the bill number, then moved to favorably recommend HB 352 out of committee.
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What bill number is this? Three 50. Two. 52. Okay. I thought it was 3 51, but 3 52. Motion to favorably recommend Bill 3 52, uh, out of committee. Thank
H.B. 352 Higher Education Alignment · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 30, 2026
Said fragmented efforts across universities and regions are frustrating and that the bill could streamline work and share successes.
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Thank you. Um, whether it's in the university realm or corporate realm, nothing's more frustrating than these different divisions working in silos, isolated, recreating the will in each of those, uh, whether it's different universities or in different regions. And I love the idea of trying to streamline efforts work together where we can use combined knowledge and learn from our mistakes or shared mistakes, right? But, uh, streamline our successes and share those successes. So it was a great bill, excited to see where the opportunities that this can create. Thank you. Thank
H.B. 111 Wildlife Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Says he has concerns about the hunting reporting penalty and asks what problem the reporting requirement is meant to address.
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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've got some serious concerns about this bill. Let's express 'em, I, regarding the hunting penalty. Um, what problem is the Hunt reporting trying to address?
H.B. 111 Wildlife Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Asks what safety issues the rule on discharging firearms near wildlife management areas is meant to address.
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Thank you. And one more question is, uh, regarding discharge of firearms near W MAs, uh, what safety issues is that trying to address?
H.B. 111 Wildlife Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Moves a favorable recommendation for HB 111 first substitute.
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Um, the amendment was adopted in rules or substitute. Yes. So I'd like to make a positive motion, a motion for a positive, uh, recommendation of from our committee On HB one 11, so On HB one 11 first. So
H.B. 111 Wildlife Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 28, 2026
Says there is no discussion of the motion and that his concerns have been resolved.
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Uh, no. No discussions of the motion by the Committee. This is good, bill. My concerns were solved. Thank you.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Presents HB 192 to remove the mandatory safety inspection fee cap so shops can set prices, noting that only salvage-title vehicles currently require safety inspections.
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I still waiting to hear back. Okay. So, um, speaking to Bill 1 92, uh, this came up from someone down in my district. He owns an auto shop. And if you remember back in the day, every year you used to have to do two things to register your car, especially for the, uh, cars along the Wasatch front, not, uh, down in Sanpete County and San Juan County outside the road. But we had to get admissions inspections and safety inspections. And the safety inspection was simple. Checked the windshield wipers, turning lights, headlights, brake lights, basic stuff, right? And then in 2017 they passed. Let's get rid of the safety inspections. Cops can cite people if the …
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Responds that such a charge would be a consumer protection issue and suggests an amendment requiring the price be posted before work is done.
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Um, I mean it could te technically happen or like a $500 bill, right? Right. Who knows what it would be? Um, norm Thur, not Norm Thurston, is it Representative Thurston Pro? Uh, he said, well, that would be a consumer protections issue. Probably go to them and they would follow up with the person. But that's a fair point. And they should have the, the prices posted. Maybe we include an amendment that, that makes sure that the, whatever the hourly rate is, is gonna be posted before work is done. I think that would be a great addition to the bill if we uh, uh, could do that.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says a higher fee would require the committee to revisit the issue later. · speaker not certain
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Okay. Appreciate that. Uh, thinking about that just is gonna force, force us to come back and, and, and look at it again.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says the price could be adjusted over time through delegated rulemaking rather than new legislation. · speaker not certain
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I, I mean, I guess the mar the, the only response to that would be, uh, you know, that it, it wouldn't necessarily take an act of the legislature to amend the price if you delegated rulemaking authority that it could be adjusted on an annual basis or something.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says fleet vehicles fall under a separate section of code that the bill does not change. · speaker not certain
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they're in their own separate category. This is j So Fleet vehicles are in a different category or a different section of the code that this doesn't touch. Yep. Okay. All Right.
H.B. 192 Vehicle Inspection Fee Amendments · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Says he sent the amendment language and that the fee posting is a written requirement rather than a verbal one.
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Just emailed it to you. If you could prove it strongly. It's not a verbal and it's not subject to the 15.
S.B. 25 Retirement Modifications · House Economic Development and Workforce Services Committee · Jan 27, 2026
Moves for a favorable recommendation of SB 25.
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I'd like to make a motion for a positive recommendation for, uh, Senator Wayne Hoppers as our Boston friend said, uh, Senate bill.
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Presents HB 30 as a follow-up to last year's wildlife management area law, proposing a voluntary donation period and an educational video in place of a license requirement for recreation on WMAs.
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Thank you. So there is a substitute online for House Bill 30, and I'll be speaking to that. Okay. Um, so this one is a follow up from this committee for last year where there was a really big wildlife management amendment bill, and there was two lines in that bill that said, uh, people using wildlife management area need a hunting or fishing license. And then a few weeks after the session ended, we started getting lots of emails, lots of calls, and a lot of angry people saying, you mean I need a $40 fishing license to ride my bike up in the mountains of Timpanogos? And that's about the gist of the thousands of contacts. In fact, …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Says the approach is a trial that would be reviewed in about two years, possibly leading to a nominal fee or full recreation license, and notes the City of Orem's interest in partnering.
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So, I mean, this is a, a policy direction and trying something new. If it's not working in a couple years, a year or two, we'll start knowing next year. But two years from now, we will know for sure. And if it's not, let's sit down and readdress the issue, uh, or address it and say, it's obviously not working. Let's try something new. It might be some type of nominal fee, or it might be a full fee. It might be the creation of a full recreation license. Uh, I've been involved with these groups and I think there's the goodwill and the intent to be good partners, both from these groups and from our cities. I know …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Explains the original bill was divided along the Wasatch Front and this continues that approach.
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Uh, so the original bill, and this is a continuation of that, it was, uh, divided basically just along the Wasatch front.
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Explains the program starts small in class one and class two counties to test the approach before expanding statewide.
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And so they attended this, especially with a new program mm-hmm. With a new program, is to start small, test this out. Let's see if it works. Let's prove the theory or adjust it small rather than just blasting it out across the entire state. So it's designated, I think class one and class two counties, which is along the Wasatch front.
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Confirms the program broadens over time and says the Goshen Bay WMA would fall into the program.
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So it incremental Correct. Over time, it, it broadens out. So for example, the Goshen Bay Waterfall Management area we were just talking about this would fall into that.
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Describes a prior concern about livestock wandering onto a WMA and says the bill was amended to address retrieving animals without a license.
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And that was one of this, so this was also presented this summer during the Interim Natural Resources Committee. One of, uh, representative Chu's big concerns was what happens if his sheep wander onto the WMA out there in, uh, ENA County, and does he have to get a fishing license to go on there to get his sheep off? And, and so, uh, Justin Shannon, everybody's like, no, please come get your sheep. Well, yeah, you don't want sheep mixing with, uh, So Wild sheep. Yeah. So I think there's actually a line in there now that says, Representative Chew can come get a sheep if they're on there. I think he added an amendment If there was grazing …
H.B. 30 Wildlife Management Area Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Says he is excited to see where the bill goes after the committee discussion.
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I swear I had something really clever to close on, but I forgot it, so I'm excited to be here and see where this goes.
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Presented HB 60 as a way to speed up water applications and deliver water to the Great Salt Lake, and said the bill keeps the state engineer focused on water matters.
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Thank you. And I'd like to invite up, uh, the state water engineer there, Willson. Okay. So House Bill 60. So this is Water Rights Amendments. Uh, this is really targeted towards the Great Salt Lake and helping keep it, um, in a healthy build to a healthy, strong spot. Crucial to that is the role of our state water engineer who's up here with us today. And so this bill directly, uh, applies to herd job and applications that she reviews. Um, so, uh, it's targeting two or three things. I'll just highlight those and then I'll turn the time over to this, uh, the state water engineer, and then she can go into further detail and answer probably …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said the bill keeps environmental protections in place and is designed to speed up the process.
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You'd like me to case I'll jump in. Ev No, it keeps the environmental protection in place. It's just this is designed to speed up the entire process. And if you wanna expand on that,
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Summarized the bill's review by the water task force and Water Commission, said limits on protests are tied to water matters, and said conversations with those concerned will continue.
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No, uh, thank you. Uh, I appreciate all the time that's gone into this. I appreciate, I mean, this has not been done out outside in a closed room. This has been done in the public. We've gone through the water task force with, uh, Warren Peterson jumped online. It's not just him. It's a room full of people that have been decades and decades and decades in this industry. They care about this industry. It was vetted, discussed from many different angles. It was also presented at the Water Commission a couple months ago. Also, people that very much care about the Great Salt Lake and about these bills. Uh, I'm thankful for all the comments today. I hear …
H.B. 60 Water Rights Amendments · House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee · Jan 23, 2026
Said he trusts the process used on the bill and supports it.
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Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I have done a water bill before, probably would never again, uh, but I know the process that they go through and I know and trust the people that are there doing this and that, that's why, um, I'm supporting this bill. Thank
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