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. 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 lowers the kitchen requirements for child care facilities across the state.

Libertas supports this bill. While we wish the legislature would go farther and actually define the kitchen requirements for daycare facilities, making it clear that these are not the same as restaurants, we appreciate this first step in reducing the requirements. We hope the State Health Department will recognize the legislative intent and make drastic and meaningful changes in the aspect of opening a daycare.

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 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.

This bill repeals Utah's consumer protection framework for kratom and reclassifies kratom alkaloids as Schedule I controlled substances.

Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Adults should have the freedom to make informed decisions about natural substances without facing criminal penalties.

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 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 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.

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 uninspected food to be sold at third-party stores, a sales tax exemption at said stores and farmers markets, and the complete deregulation of raw milk production and sale.

Libertas supports this bill. It allows for the the greater sale of food produced outside the government regulated system.

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.