2022 Bills

Education Gets the Sandbox Treatment in Utah

Many education funds come with restrictions on how they can or cannot be spent. The programs mean well, but the money comes with heavy bureaucratic rules. They limit schools’ and teachers' creativity and inhibit innovation.

Jon England
| 10th Mar 2022

2022 Bills

New Restrictions on Home Invasions by Police

A new law restricts how officers can use no-knock warrants to forcibly enter your home.

Connor Boyack
| 9th Mar 2022

2022 Bills

Utah Takes Steps to Protect Home Ownership for Seniors

This bill would allow homeowners, over the age of 75, with an income of less than $65,000 a year, to apply to forgo the payment of property tax until the sale of their home or a transfer of ownership takes place.

Ben Shelton
| 9th Mar 2022

2022 Bills

Utah Consolidates Its Regulatory Sandboxes

Instead of three or four sandboxes with different oversight, operating requirements, and administrative capabilities, all the innovative products and services across Utah's broad economy will now be overseen by a single sandbox administrator with a dedicated director, staff, and resources to handle applications for regulatory waivers.

Caden Rosenbaum
| 8th Mar 2022

2022 Bills

Real Progress Made for Occupational Licensure Reform

Reforming these burdensome and extremely restrictive economic handicaps will allow those who want to work in Utah to do so, allow those qualified to perform a profession to do so, and allow consumers who need a variety of services and choices to have them.

Ben Shelton
| 8th Mar 2022

2022 Bills

Special Needs Opportunity Scholarship Program Expanded in Utah

The bill continues to emphasize special needs students and that will always be a priority, but families no longer have to choose between sibling support and educational opportunities for their children.

Jon England
| 7th Mar 2022

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