HB 293: Undermining Plea in Abeyance
Plea in abeyances would be treated as convictions under HB 293 for the purpose of imposing harsher sentences for future crimes.
Protecting Your Digital Data from Warrantless Searches
Our privacy interest in digital data stored with or created by a third party must be protected from warrantless searches.
HB 289: Stronger Tint for Vehicle Windows
This bill lowers the window tint limit to 25%—meaning that drivers could legally operate with darker tint on their front side windows.
Car sharing shouldn’t be criminalized at the airport
Salt Lake City and the Airport are criminalizing Utahns who share their vehicle using Turo.
HB 84: Using Taxpayer Money to Fund Rural Development
This bill expands existing grant programs for rural economic development.
HB 278: Removing State Licensure for Court Reporters
This bill replaces a state licensing requirement with a certification process for court reporters.
SB 43: First-Degree Felony for Distributing Deathly Drugs
This bill makes several changes to criminal law, including making it a first degree felony to cause the death of another person as a result of distributed drugs.
SB 132: Allowing Regular Beer in Grocery and Convenience Stores
Current protectionist policies allow government-owned liquor stores to sell beer above a certain alcohol limit, but not grocery and convenience stores. As of this April, Utah will be one of only two states that restrict grocery...
HB 244: One Day Misdemeanor Reduction
This bill lowers Utah's sentence length for a class A misdemeanor penalty by one day in order to prevent the deportation of legal immigrants.
HJR 18: Zero-Based Budgeting Use in Legislative Subcommittees
Instead of starting the budgeting process with last year's budget and simply adding (and very rarely subtracting) to it, legislative committees should start fresh—from zero.