2024 Bills

This bill would abolish the use of quotas as a tool for peace officer evaluation and would prohibit police stations from mandating arrest, stop, citation, or other quotas.
Senate Bill 88, sponsored by Sen. Pitcher, corrects how juveniles are treated when in custody.
This bill requires ride-share drivers to get their vehicle inspected, even if it doesn't need it according to current law.
HB 491 creates a Privacy Ombudsman, elevates the Personal Privacy Oversight Committee (renaming it the Utah Privacy Commission), brings teeth with a Utah Privacy Governing Board that includes important elected officials, and moves government entities to not only comply with the laws that already exist, but raise the standards by 2027.
HB 553 proposes to restrict reverse-keyword searches, thus backing the liberties of Utah's citizens while still empowering law enforcement to fulfill their responsibilities by codifying a keyword search that has the backing of probable cause, including particularized suspicion of an individual or device.
This bill opens up the mental health professional licensing scheme to allow for more professionals to practice, as well as provide additional services.

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