Libertas Institute is a public policy think tank that innovates reforms in its home state of Utah, then works with partners to scale them across the country. This page shares several of our first-in-the-nation policy reforms we’d love to help you achieve in your state.
Regulatory Sandboxes
Innovative businesses shouldn’t be punished for thinking outside the box, but they routinely are. This new legal model creates a process where entrepreneurs can safely go to market while regulators and legislators catch up.
Portable Benefits
Portable benefits are “worker benefits that are not tied to any particular job or company,” meaning a worker “owns their own benefits.” This is different from traditional arrangements where benefits are attached to a specific job.
Data Privacy
The courts haven’t kept up with the rapid development of technology and how it impacts our privacy, so it’s up to legislators to guarantee basic privacy protections for individuals and the data they generate.
Lemonade Stand Freedom
After hearing of young entrepreneurs being shut down for lacking a costly business license or food handler’s permit, we made Utah the first state to ban local governments from requiring these permission slips from minors.
We’ve got more where that came from…
We have pioneered numerous policies in Utah. Want to see more policies that we were the first in the country to innovate and get passed? We’d love to help you work on these ideas as well. Click to expand the list.
Meet Our Team
Justan Rice, Director of State Government Affairs
Justan Rice, M.Ed. serves as Director of State Government Affairs at the Libertas Institute. She architects and leads Libertas’ national expansion beyond its Utah roots, carrying the organization’s legislative victories into state capitols across all 50 states. Her portfolio spans portable benefits; Fourth Amendment privacy protections; regulatory sandboxes; and policies that expand economic opportunity for young entrepreneurs.
David Iglesias, Deputy Director of State Government Affairs
David is the Deputy Director of State Government Affairs at Libertas. He is responsible for partnerships with organizations and individuals interested in our innovative policies in much of the Eastern and Southern states of the country.