Legislation

2019 Bills

HB 84: Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Rural Development

This bill expands existing grant programs for rural economic development.

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2019 Bills

HB 278: Removing State Licensure for Court Reporters

This bill replaces a state licensing requirement with a certification process for court reporters.

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2019 Bills

SB 43: First-Degree Felony for Distributing Deathly Drugs

This bill makes several changes to criminal law, including making it a first degree felony to cause the death of another person as a result of distributed drugs.

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2019 Bills

SB 132: Allowing Regular Beer in Grocery and Convenience Stores

Current protectionist policies allow government-owned liquor stores to sell beer above a certain alcohol limit, but not grocery and convenience stores. As of this April, Utah will be one of only two states that restrict grocery stores to selling 3.2% alcohol.

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2019 Bills

HB 244: One Day Misdemeanor Reduction

This bill lowers Utah's sentence length for a class A misdemeanor penalty by one day in order to prevent the deportation of legal immigrants.

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2019 Bills

HJR 18: Zero-Based Budgeting Use in Legislative Subcommittees

Instead of starting the budgeting process with last year's budget and simply adding (and very rarely subtracting) to it, legislative committees should start fresh—from zero.

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