Legislation to help improve traffic safety near school buses was unanimously passed out of the Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy, and Technology Committee Monday. Sponsored by Representative Mike McKell (Republican – Spanish Fork), HB 235-Automated Traffic Enforcement Safety Devices authorizes…
With fourteen more days of floor time scheduled to get their work completed and a 2018 budget finalized, the Utah Legislature has its work cut out for them. Senate President Wayne Niederhauser (Republican – Sandy) said that a current priority…
Senator Allen Christensen (Republican – Ogden) may have received a sign that things would not go well during his third and final presentation of SB 29 – Utah Marriage Commission Amendments when his microphone violently cut in and out at…
Hey you, yeah you. Remember all that internet shopping you did over the holiday season? Of course you do – it was fantastic. Do you remember all the taxes you paid on those purchases? Of course you don’t – because,…
It is very easy to become jaded during the legislative session, bills seem to come out of left field that appear to be geared towards one special interest group – quite possibly at the expense of the public. So it…
With just under ninety minutes remaining in the 2015 state legislative session, Utah Senator Lyle Hillyard (Republican – Logan) rose to decry the “buzzer-beater” bid for taxation and appropriation in the form of HB 420 – Revisions to Transportation Funding.…
The Utah Senate rejected legislation that would allow the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), under the Air Quality Board (AQB), to create rules and regulations improving the state’s air quality more stringent than federal standards. Currently, the AQB is…
Senior citizens whose primary income source is Social Security were dealt a financial blow Thursday, when the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee opted not to advance legislation that would remove the tax on such income along party lines. SB 57…
Electric cars may become more attainable for Utahns after this legislative session. On Tuesday, the House passed HB 74 on a 59-13 vote. The bill, which gives a larger tax incentive for Utahns to purchase more fuel efficient vehicles, was…
Curtis Haring contributed to this article. A proposed bill that would prevent the state from giving tax or fee breaks to the new NSA data center was uncircled and passed by the Senate Tuesday morning. SB 45, which is sponsored…
