Libertas Legislation Tracker

This bill reduces criminal penalties for several minor traffic violations, converting some class C misdemeanors to infractions.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Reducing criminal penalties for minor offenses prevents unnecessary criminalization of common behaviors.

This bill prevents companies contracted with schools from selling student information. It allows public schools to cancel contracts if a company is in violation of this law.

Libertas supports this bill. If a student is required to use a 3rd party app at school, they should know that their personal data is protected.

This bill establishes a state Nuclear Energy Regulatory Office and positions Utah to take a larger role in regulating nuclear energy activities.

Libertas supports this bill. By expanding state-level authority, Utah can reduce federal bottlenecks, provide clearer and more predictable regulatory pathways, and attract private investment in advanced nuclear technologies. This approach strengthens energy reliability while reinforcing federalism and innovation-friendly policy.

This bill requires research and reporting on why students are chronically absent.

Libertas supports this bill. Too often the solution to chronic absenteeism is to get law enforcement involved, which doesn't improve attendance. This bill examines why students are absent, which will lead to better and non-punitive solutions to chronic absenteeism.

This bill clarifies where microschools can open and that school founders can convert a home into a microschool.

Libertas supports this bill. Clarity permits speed, and having greater clarity for both cities and founders will increase the speed at which a founder can find a suitable location, saving them time and money.

HB 128 eliminates the requirement to signal when entering or exiting single-lane roundabouts while preserving signal requirements for lane changes within multi-lane roundabouts.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. The current requirement is an unenforced, widely-unknown technical violation that criminalizes ordinary behavior. Roundabout design makes signaling impractical and confusing. This removes an unnecessary law that enables pretextual stops without improving safety.

This bill requires healthcare facilities to allow patients to use their own blood or directed donor blood for transfusions, except in emergency situations, and provides liability protection to healthcare providers when using patient-provided blood products.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Individuals should have the right to make their own medical decisions, including the source of blood products used in their care.

This bill clarifies and streamlines the process for voters within a school district to use a referendum to weigh in on certain school board actions, including taxes.


Libertas supports this bill. By cleaning up definitions and aligning procedures in state law, HB 170 removes confusion about how and when a referendum can be used, giving both citizens and school districts a shared understanding of the rules.

This bill allows raw milk producers who do not own any percentage of a store to sell raw milk and for 3rd-party pick up and deliver. The state government will also no longer do monthly tests.

Libertas supports this bill. It provides for additional deregulation in an area of law that the government has no role being involved in.

This bill defines starter homes and creates a streamlined process for a property owner to build a starter home on a 1/8th acre lot.

Libertas supports this bill. Ideally, the government is not dictating lot sizes to individual property owners in most cases. While there are details we would refine, and while we prefer alternative approaches with broader support from local governments, the bill moves an important topic in a constructive direction.

Creates clearer rules for how the state collects health claims data, forces formal planning and public transparency, adds encryption and privacy safeguards, and gives individuals the right to opt out of having their identifiable health data used.


Libertas supports this bill. Protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information that the government collects should be a primary goal of government. Unfortunately, that hasn't often been the case. This bill is a step towards correcting that.

This bill creates new court supervision programs for drug offenses, authorizes geographic bans for those charged with drug crimes, establishes jail recovery pods, and restricts syringe exchange programs in public parks.

Libertas Institute supports this bill, which emphasizes relapse prevention while promoting clean-up and safety in public spaces. Treatment-focused alternatives to incarceration reduce the harmful effects of criminalizing addiction and mental health issues.

This bill allows property owners in higher wildfire-risk areas to clear vegetation on their property, even when local landscaping rules would otherwise prohibit it.


Libertas supports this bill. Property owners should have the right to decide their own landscaping, especially if they wish to clear vegetation that could pose increased fire risk.

This bill expands sheriff's work programs that allow prisoners to participate in supervised public works projects instead of serving jail time and establishes new eligibility requirements and administrative procedures for alternative incarceration programs.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Alternative incarceration programs reduce recidivism and provide more effective rehabilitation than traditional imprisonment2.

This bill requires county jails to assist inmates in obtaining identification documents and creates various reporting requirements for corrections agencies regarding housing and treatment programs.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Supporting successful reentry reduces recidivism and helps formerly incarcerated individuals reintegrate into society.

This bill requires local taxing entities to make preliminary public statements about proposed property tax increases and present alternative budgets showing operations with and without the proposed tax increase.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. This bill improves transparency and allows residents to meaningfully engage when property tax increases are proposed.

This bill strengthens the existing laws regarding warrant requirements for government to access your personal information from another entity.

Libertas supports this bill. Without 3rd party privacy protections, government can access your personal information, including financial records, location data, phone records, etc. without first getting a warrant. A judicial check on executive enforcement is a bedrock feature of our system's design.

This bill creates the AI Transparency Act requiring developers of certain artificial intelligence models to publish safety plans, report incidents to the state, and comply with new regulatory requirements while providing whistleblower protections.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. New regulatory frameworks on emerging technologies can stifle innovation and impose compliance burdens on businesses.

This bill puts clear guardrails on how license plate reader data is collected, stored, and shared.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. It requires strong rules so sensitive information can't be misused or stored indefinitely. Clear safeguards help ensure government surveillance respects individual rights and freedom.

This bill requires the Utah System of Higher Education to find ways to streamline credit transfers for graduation requirements from outside of the USHE system

Libertas supports this bill. Credit transfer is one way that colleges can drastically improve their customer service. Finding ways to streamline credit transfer towards graduation requirements can make college cheaper and faster for students.

This bill allows a private individual to bring a nuisance claim against the government in certain circumstances.


Libertas supports this bill. It removes the ability for a government entity to claim immunity when a property they own or control becomes a nuisance to a neighbor. We're all responsible for taking care of our property. Government is no exception.

This bill authorizes the Huntsman Mental Health Institute to conduct clinical studies on psychedelic-assisted therapy for veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD, allowing the use of controlled substances like MDMA and psilocybin in a research setting.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Expanding treatment options for veterans suffering from PTSD protects their freedom to pursue effective healthcare solutions.

This bill creates comprehensive regulations for AI companion chatbots, requiring safety protocols, government oversight, disclosure requirements, and restricting certain uses with minors.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Heavy-handed government regulation stifles innovation and imposes burdensome compliance costs on emerging technology companies.

This bill requires government entities to obtain legislative authorization before implementing high-risk surveillance activities and restructures privacy oversight through an expanded Utah Privacy Commission and new ombudsman office.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Government surveillance should face meaningful oversight and citizens deserve strong protections for their personal information.

This bill lowers the minimum driving age by six months and allows parents to handle all driver education requirements for their children instead of requiring formal programs.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Parents should have the authority to make decisions about their children's education and development without unnecessary government mandates.

This bill expands the existing state statute governing accessory dwelling units to include detached accessory dwelling units, such as backyard cottages. It also makes a series of minor clarifying changes to other land use provisions.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. We, and many Utahns, understand local control to mean the freedom for individual property owners to make reasonable use of their land, subject to basic safety and parking standards. This bill would allow property owners to build detached cottages for family members or to rent to others, a reasonable reform that we strongly support.

This bill comprehensively reforms the procedures for capital felony cases, including sentencing proceedings, appeals processes, competency determinations, and execution procedures.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Its hard deadlines and procedural barriers prioritize execution efficiency over constitutional protections, increasing the risk of executing incompetent individuals in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

This bill creates additional licensing pathways for professional land surveyors and updates technical standards for coordinate systems used in surveying.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Expanding licensing pathways can reduce barriers to entry in professional fields.

This bill creates standardized disclosure forms for justice-involved individuals' mental health information and increases coordination between treatment providers, courts, and law enforcement regarding mental health treatment participation.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Individuals should have maximum control over their private health information without government-mandated disclosure processes.

This bill requires bigger cities and counties to have a digital forensics laboratory or contract with one other than federal lab.

Libertas supports this bill. If someone has a digital device, like a cell phone or laptop, and it gets confiscated as part of an investigation, they may have to wait months or years to have their case heard because law enforcement doesn't have a reliable lab to examine the device. Requiring better access to a lab will force governments to uphold our Constitutional right to due process and a speedy trial.

This bill changes the scope of practice for the nursing, hearing, physical and occupational therapist, and hearing professions.

Libertas supports this bill. Most occupational licenses have arcane and protectionist requirements that unnecessarily create scarcity and drive up costs. This bill reverses a lot of those issues for these professions.

Amends the Kratom Consumer Protection Act to restrict sales to tobacco specialty businesses only, raise the purchase age to 21, limit legal products to pure leaf kratom, and schedule two concentrated/synthetic alkaloids as Schedule I controlled substances.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. It unnecessarily restricts adult access to a legal botanical product. Limiting retail outlets, raising the purchase age without evidence, and imposing escalating felony penalties on processors and retailers is disproportionate government overreach.

This bill removes income-based eligibility requirements for the Carson Smith Opportunity Scholarship Program for students with disabilities and aligns the program's structure with the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. School choice programs expand educational freedom by giving parents more options to meet their children's unique needs.

This bill reduces both individual and corporate income tax rates from 4.5% to 4.45%.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. This bill makes a minor adjustment to state tax rates.

This bill prohibits law enforcement agencies from requiring officers to meet impermissible quotas and bans retaliation against officers who don't meet such quotas.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Quota systems can incentivize unnecessary arrests and citations that violate individual rights.

This bill imposes a tax on sales and content deemed harmful to minors while requiring commercial entities to notify state agencies and pay fees for compliance monitoring of age verification requirements.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Government should not tax or extensively regulate legal content based on subjective determinations of what is harmful.

This bill allows a physician to opt out of participating in the execution of a death sentence without it being considered unprofessional conduct.


Libertas supports this bill. It protects the First Amendment rights of physicians without it being held against them professionally. Physicians are already allowed to opt out of performing abortions, this is no different.

This bill allows for Utah's drug schedules to automatically update when the federal government moves a currently banned "Schedule I" drug into a less-restricted category, so that Utah's own classification for that drug matches the federal one.

Libertas supports this bill. When the federal government changes how illegal or restricted a drug is, Utah law should not lag behind and create confusion about what is legal here. This bill keeps all of the usual safeguards for controlled substances but makes the classification system clearer and more consistent for patients, doctors, and law enforcement.

This bill makes it easier for veterans to receive a civilian occupational license by requiring the government to count their experience in the military.

Libertas supports this bill. Taxpayer dollars are wasted when we require veterans to repeat training and education for a license to a job they have already proven they can do. This bill cuts red tape and streamlines the process for veterans and active-duty service members as they transition back to civilian life.

This bill ensures that ordinances passed by cities and localities apply to local-level actors instead of online marketplaces which are just facilitators.


Libertas Supports this bill. When a local government turns to online marketplaces to enforce a local ordinance, instead of going to local actors directly, it's often a sign that the ordinance is overreaching. This bill makes clear that online marketplace should be regulated at the state level, and local level ordinances should focus on local level actors.

This bill creates a mechanism to automatically reduce income tax rates when actual state revenue exceeds forecast revenue.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. This change ensures that surplus funds are not automatically treated as an opportunity for increased spending.

This bill modifies when previous convictions for theft, robbery, burglary, or fraud can enhance theft of service penalties to a third degree felony, with different treatment for public transportation services versus other services.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Criminal penalties should focus on rehabilitation and proportionality rather than creating complex enhancement schemes that increase incarceration.

This bill changes how the Office of Professional Licensure Review operates with regard to scope of practice requests when a new innovation is implemented.

Libertas supports this bill. It streamlines the process for allowing health care providers to start using new technology that fit in their license. This benefits patient outcomes and health care delivery.

This bill enhances individual liberty by allowing constables to offer payment schedules as an alternative to property seizure, reducing the immediate financial burden and protecting property rights of citizens facing debt collection.

This bill requires construction requirements making seclusion rooms more safe including the use of video and audio recording of the building always.

Libertas supports this bill. While we don't think that seclusion rooms should be used ever on a child, if they are going to allow them requiring video and audio recordings of the room will prevent and detect abuse of the room outside of law.

This bill prohibits law enforcement from tampering with or disabling privately owned surveillance cameras, protecting property rights and limiting government interference with citizens' ability to record police activities.

Libertas supports this bill. Police should not be able to hide what they are doing by blocking or disabling cameras that belong to ordinary people and businesses, especially on their own private property. This bill strengthens core property rights and treats video recording as a basic accountability tool, while still allowing officers to act with consent, in emergencies, or under court order.

Allows courts to reduce a defendant’s conviction to a lower degree offense after sentencing if the individual provides substantial assistance to law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting others.

Libertas supports this bill. This creates a practical incentive for cooperation that can help solve crimes and improve public safety without expanding penalties or incarceration. It also gives judges discretion to reward rehabilitation and accountability, ensuring outcomes better reflect a defendant’s post-conviction conduct rather than locking in overly rigid sentences.

This bill ties the higher ed funding to enrollment numbers and outcomes.

Libertas supports this bill. Tying funding to enrollment begins to add market pressure to higher ed, forcing them to improve. While we wish this bill went farther, it is a nice step to introducing market forces to the higher ed market.

This bill allows for homemade food to be sold at third-party stores and specifies under what conditions it may be sold. The bill also allows for a sales tax exemption at third-party stores and farmers markets.

Libertas supports this bill. It allows greater freedom to sell homemade foods, a reform we strongly support.

This bill expands Utah's Right to Try law by removing the requirement that patients have a terminal illness to access investigational drugs, allowing patients with any eligible illness to obtain experimental treatments.

Libertas supports this bill. Individuals should have the freedom to make their own medical decisions and access potentially life-saving treatments without government restrictions.

This bill prohibits law enforcement officers from using unmarked vehicles to initiate traffic stops for infractions, with certain exceptions.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Restricting the use of unmarked vehicles for routine traffic stops enhances transparency and reduces opportunities for abuse of police power.

SB 275 creates a voluntary state-endorsed digital identity program and establishes a digital identity bill of rights to govern how it operates. It sets strict standards for identity proofing, limits data collection and tracking, and defines responsibilities for government agencies and private entities that interact with the system.

Libertas supports this bill because it modernizes identity verification while placing privacy, consent, and individual control at the center of the framework. It ensures innovation can move forward without enabling surveillance or coercion, preserving both security and civil liberties.

This bill expands the existing state statute governing accessory dwelling units to include detached accessory dwelling units, such as backyard cottages. It also makes a series of minor clarifying changes to other land use provisions.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. We, and many Utahns, understand local control to mean the freedom for individual property owners to make reasonable use of their land, subject to basic safety and parking standards. This bill would allow property owners to build detached cottages for family members or to rent to others, a reasonable reform that we strongly support.

This bill expands the scope of practice for certified commercial interior designers by removing occupancy group limitations and wall height restrictions.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Expanding professional licensing scope typically reduces barriers to competition and increases market freedom.

This bill establishes student ownership of educational data and requires informed consent before schools can access, disclose, or use student educational information.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Students should control their personal educational data and have the right to consent to its use.

This bill modifies the legal procedures for when courts issue arrest warrants versus summons to compel defendants to appear in court.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. Protecting individuals from unnecessary arrest and detention serves the principle of limiting government coercion to only what is truly necessary.

This bill creates a comprehensive regulatory framework for artificial intelligence use in Utah's public education system, including safety standards, pilot programs, and oversight mechanisms.

Libertas Institute supports this bill. The bill creates extensive regulatory bureaucracy that could stifle educational innovation while maintaining some protections for parental rights and student privacy.