| Air Quality | HB185 | Railroad ModificationsThis bill would require the Division of Air Quality to conduct an air emissions inventory at railyards in ozone nonattainment areas of the state (Wasatch Front) by September 30, 2025. This would require an inventory of all nitrogen, carbon, and particulate matter. DAQ would then be required to develop a reduction plan to reduce nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter to certain levels by December 31, 2027. | Clancy | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Air Quality | SB184 | Diesel Emissions Reductions AmendmentsThis bill would create an optional registration program for non-roadway diesel engine vehicles. The registration program would charge a $50 fee which would be deposited into the Environmental Mitigation Response fund. | Escamilla | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Air Quality | HB499 | Department of Environmental Quality AmendmentsThis bill makes several changes to the Air Quality Board, including certain equirements for appointed members. It requires that a member would be from a first or second class county, and a member from a third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class county. It also specifies the terms of certain board members to stagger appointments. Lastly it makes certain changes to water heaters in an ozone/nonattainment area. | Snider | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Air Quality | HB525 | Clean Truck AmendmentsThis bill prohibits a DMV from accepting new registrations for certain motor vehicles with a gross weight of more than 14,000 pounds manufactured before 2010. This is applicable in a major nonattainment county, meaning Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, and Utah Counties. It also provides a tax incentive ($4,000 up to 8,000) to purchase a clean heavy duty vehicle. | Cutler | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Appropriations | SB2 | New Fiscal Year Supplemental Appropriation ActThis bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of state government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026. The funding amounts appropriated in this bill are recommended by the Executive Appropriations Committee (EAC). | Stevenson | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Appropriations | HB3 | Current Fiscal Year Supplemental AppropriationsThis bill supplements or reduces appropriations otherwise provided for the support and operation of state government for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024 and ending June 30, 2025. The funding amounts appropriated in this bill are reccomended by the Executive Appropriations Committee (EAC). | V. Peterson | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Appropriations | SB3 | Appropriation AdjustmentsThe "bill of bills" appropriates funding for bills with fiscal notes, funds a number of other appropriations, and includes legislative intent language for various appropriations. | Stevenson | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Appropriations | HB006 | Transportation and Infrastructure Base BudgetThe Transportation and Infrastructure appropriations subcommittee base budget includes ongoing appropriations for a number of state functions or agencies, including the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT). WFRC also receives granted planning funding through this bill. | Welton | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Appropriations | HB459 | Appropriations Subcommittee AmendmentsThis bill changes certain appropriations subcommittees, including changing the Infrastructure and General Government (IGG) subcommittee to the Transportation and Infrastructure Appropriations Subcommittee. | V. Peterson | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Economic Development | SB306 | Convention Center Investment AmendmentsThis bill would make changes related to revitalizing the Salt Lake City Convention Center. Specifically, it would allow Salt Lake County to use the county portion (.05%) of the 4th Quarter .20% local option sales tax for expenditures related to revitalization of the convention center and related projects including land acquisition costs, commercial development, housing, etc. It also would require GOEO to pay affected hotels with certain qualified losses from events $2.1M. Lastly this bill would move a portion of a state highway to Salt Lake City's jurisdiction. (Various provisions of this bill were ultimately included in SB26). | McCay | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Economic Development | SB333 | Major Sporting Event Venue Financing AmendmentsCreates Major Sporting Event Venue Zones (MSEVZ) and secondary project areas that can be created by jurisdictions (municipalities or counties) that have an approved venue. Approved venues do not necessarily need to be sporting venues; however, the venue must be officially tied to the Olympic games or some other sort of professional or international sports competition. Within a MSEVZ, the creating entity can impose 1) an accommodation tax or 2) transient room tax, resort community sales tax, additional resort community sales and use tax. The creating entity can also use property and sales and use tax increment for the qualified area. Allows counties with an MSEVZ to impose the municipal energy tax and municipal telecoms tax within the zone. Authorizes a community reinvestment agency or public infrastructure district as a fiscal agent of the MSEVZ. It requires participation from local taxing entities, provides procedures for overlap with an existing CRA, HTRZ, of FHIZ, and would require a proposal to be submitted to GOEO and approved by the MSEVZ board. | Stevenson | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Economic Development | SB337 | Land Use and Development AmendementsThis bill creates the Beehive Development Agency as a political subdivision of the state and allows the Chief Executive Officer of the Governor's Office Of Economic Opportunity to propose significant community impact projects to the development agency. The development agency would be able to receive 75% of increment from property and sales tax in the project. The bill also makes significant changes to the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, and its role, including creating the Economic Opportunity Coordinating Council which along with the CEO will set statewide strategic objectives regarding economic opportunity, oversee state authorities like MIDA, Inland Port, etc., and business incentive strategies. The bill would also consolidate the Division of Housing and Community Development into the office by July 2026, and remove the sunset on the Utah Housing Corporation. The first substitute makes a number of changes, but notably would not take away local land use authority. | Cullimore | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Economic Development | HB542 | Economic Development AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes to programs at the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity. The bill also makes changes to broadband provisions, and would require the Broadband Center to coordinate with UDOT, and also must provide grant award proposals to the Utah Transportation Commission. Lastly, and quite notably, the bill repeals the Unified Economic Opportunity Commission (UEOC). The bill would also appropriate $1.9M to DWS for a homelessness program. | Hawkins | Neutral | 2 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB023 | First Home Investment Zone AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of clarifying changes to the FHIZ statute, including: 1) Amends the definition of housing affordability to be defined by median gross income relative to the county area, and not by the municipal or county statistical area, 2) Allows an 80% COUNTY median home price owner occupancy exemption to be 80% of ZIP CODE median home price if the proposal demonstrates a deviation from county median home price will achieve FHIZ objectives, 3) Clarifies how exraterritorial homes may be included in density and owner-occupancy requirements by adjusting the formula, and 4) Clarifies what is included in the developable area and base year. | Harper | Support | 1 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB026 | Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone AmendmentsThis bill makes a few technical changes to the HTRZ statute, including: 1) Amending the definition of housing affordability to be defined by median gross income relative to the county area, and not by the municipal or county statistical area, 2) clarifying that tax increment may only be triggered up to three times per project, (3) Requiring 25% of dwelling units in an HTRZ must have more than one bedroom, (4) Clarifying the definition of commuter rail, (5) Requiring that an HTRZ now demonstrates how the proposal meets certain objectives, rather than just promoting objectives, (7) Extending the radius to 1/2 mile for a second class city in an opportunity zone, and (8) requireing certain notice be sent by December 31, instead of January 1st. The final version of the bill includes a significant change that would allow for the creation of a Convention Center Reinvestment Zone (CCRZ) in SLC and Sandy City that captures property and sales tax increment for related development infrastructure. It would also authorize a Public Infrastructure District to finance the improvements, and also allows for Salt Lake County 4th quarter revenues to be transferred to the PID. | Harper | Neutral | 1 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB166 | Point of the Mountain State Land Authority AmendmentsThis bill would require that a private lessee on the POM land shall pay a privelage tax. The bill gradually reduces the amount of privelage tax paid in increments over time when ultimately, only 25% of the tax is collected in 2068, as opposed to 100% in 2025. The bill also defines board member appointments and relevent requirements. | Stevenson | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB181 | Housing Affordability AmendmentsThe bill amendas minimum parking and garage design standards for cities and counties, including dimensions of a single parking space for a one- or two-family dwelling or town home, unobstructed tandem parking spaces, single family attached or detached owner occupied affordable homes. | Fillmore | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB250 | Community Development ModificationsThis bill (1) authorizes the inland port authority to provide revenue from a project area to a non-profit housing fund to assist low income families to achieve home ownership within a 15 mile radius of the project area, (2) authorizes a CRA to pay all of part of the housing allocation to a nonprofit to help individuals or families achieve home ownership, and (3) makes other changes that allow an agency to pay the delinquent property or privelage tax or resolve a political subdivision lien against the participant. | Cullimore | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | SB262 | Housing Affordability ModificationsThis bill has a number of provisions related to housing, including: (1) Creating a shared appreciation loan program and incentive program for purposes of assisting with purchasing construction liability insurance for a qualifying condo project and allowing funding to be used by the First Time Home Buyers grant program, and (2) Allowing a legislative body by resolution or ordinance to settle litigation regarding a land use decision with a property owner thorugh a consent agreement (note this was a compromise reached when the bill initially had a binding general plan requirement). | Fillmore | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | HB037 | Utah Housing AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes related to housing development and policy, including: (1) Requiring GOPB to develop a state housing plan and report on the implementation of the plan to Political subdivisions interim, (2) Makes changes to moderate income housing strategies, (3) Creates an affordable home ownership density bonus for single-family and multi-family residnetial units, meaning that if a municipality approves a qualifying density bonus through zoning or development agreement, the municipality may adopt requirements for deed restrictions, affordability, or square footage/size. | Dunnigan | Support | 1 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | HB088 | Housing Policy AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes related to housing and housing polices, including: (1) adjusting the frequency of Moderate Income Housing Plan (MIHP) reporting from every year to every three years, (2) allowing a single internal or external accessory dwelling unit (ADU) to be a permitted use in an urban municipality (1st or 2nd class county) if it is built on a lot with a detached single family home in a residential area, (3) does not allow a municipality to require larger setbacks than those of a single family home for an external ADU or have a larger setback than is required for safety purposes, and (4) Does not allow an urban municipality to prohibit a modular unit in a residential zone if it complies with certain standards. | Ward | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Housing / Land Use | HB175 | Housing Construction AmendmentsAmends language in the International Residential Code to change "one and two" family dwellings, to "one, two, three, and four family dwellings". This appears to be aimed at addressing missing middle housing. | Ward | Neutral | 2 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | HB090 | Zoning AmendmentsAllows a detached single family home built on a 4,000 sqft lot to be a permitted use in a residential zone of an urban municipality (within a 1st or 2nd class county). It also allows housing to be a permitted use in a commercial zone of an urban municipality. | Ward | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Housing / Land Use | HB360 | Housing Attainability AmendmentsThis bill clarifies that political subdivisions may hold a closed meeting to discuss financial proposals related to the development of landowners by the state or a political subdivision. The bill also adds geographic diversity to the six public trustees of the Utah Housing Corporation. The bill also provides that the Department of Transportation may make rules regarding the sale of state surplus real property for the development of affordable housing. The bill also makes $10M available from the Utah Homes Investment Program to first and second class to fund efforts to rehab existing rental housing. | Whyte | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | HB368 | Local Land Use AmendmentsThis bill includes a number of changes from the Land Use Task Force including Land use noticing, real property transfers, development standards, annexation, special districts, bonding, etc. | Whyte | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Housing / Land Use | HCR14 | House Concurrent Resolution Supporting Streamlining Utah Housing PoliciesThis resolution recognizes the Housing Affordability Crisis in the state and the number of entities and programs intended to address aspects of housing affordability and attainability. Further, the resolution supports consolidating certain programs and efforts to create greater efficiency. | Whyte | Support | 2 | Passed |
| Misc. | SB254 | State Grant RevisionsThis bill makes follow up changes to HB335 of the 2024 Session, which provided requirements for granted state funds to local governments, nonprofits, etc. SB254 would require that additional information about directly granted funds should be included in the grants intent language. Those requirements include the disbursement schedule, performance metrics, reporting, and other requirements. | Escamilla | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Misc. | HB176 | County Classification AmendmentsThis bill changes population requirements for county classifications. First Class (1,150,000+), Second Class (260,000-1,150,000), Third Class (40,000 - 260,000), Fourth Class (12,000 - 40,000), Fifth Class (5,000 - 12,000), and Sixth Class (0-5,000). | Brooks | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Misc. | HB291 | Mayoral Recall Election AmendmentsThis bill establishes a procedure to conduct a recall election for the office of mayor. | Nelson | Oppose | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Misc. | HB321 | Utah Olympic AmendmentsThis bill modifies the olympic and paralympic games act to reflect the award of the 2034 games, and the shift from the bid committee to the organizing committee. The bill also makes the duties and coordination with the organizing committee and the legislative, "Games Committee", clear. Notably, the organizing committee must review host committee finances, public obligation to the games, and any contracts that legally bind the state. It also requires that a host committee director is appointed by the Governor, Speaker, and President. | Hawkins | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Misc. | HB356 | County Governance AmendmentsThis bill makes changes to the county form of government by, (1) eliminating the expanded county commission form of government, (2) modifying the county commission form of government to specify that a commission may have three, five, or seven members, (3) modifies the process for changing the form of county government, and (4) enacts a provision for a study committee under a county legislative body | Teuscher | Support | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Misc. | HB379 | Population Data AmendmentsThis bill requies that when population estimates are available from the Utah Population Committee, that the UPC data is used instead of Census bureau estimates, unless required by federal law. This is required for various programs / funding allocations that currently use census date, including county classifications, local option transportation sales taxes, B&C road funds, etc. This bill also requires govermental entities to provide information to the population committee upon request. This bill may ultimately change the apportionment of certain funds given that UPC population data will be different from the Census. | Gricius | Neutral | 2 | Passed |
| Misc. | HB410 | Child Care AmendmentsThis bill makes various changes related to providing childcare. Notably, it authorizes the use of housing and transit reinvestment zone funds to include childcare facilities within the zone. | Miller | Neutral | 2 | Passed |
| Misc. | HB533 | County Formation AmendmentsThis bill provides an opportunity for municipal legislative bodies within Salt Lake County to collectively initiate a process to create a new county, if their combined populations would be at aleast 333,000. It would allow certain rural/unincorporated areas to remain in the original county, would require a feasibility study to be completed to assess cost/benefit of a new county, and identifies how taxes and assets would be divided between the existing and new county. | Teuscher | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Misc. | HB553 | State Grant Process AmendmentsThis bill makes changes to the granting of state funds, and builds HB355 from the 2024 Legislative Session. The most significant change in this bill would prohibit a state granting agency from using granted funds to administer the grant. | V. Peterson | Neutral | 3 | Passed House |
| Transportation | SB096 | Advanced Air Mobility AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes related to advanced air mobility, including: (1) directing UDOT to conduct a community outreach and public education campaign on advanced air mobility, (2) directing UDOT to create an AAM toolkit for political subdivisions, including model ordinances, best practices, and other resources, and (3) adds definitions to code, including "flight information exchange", "Unmanned aircraft system service supplier", and "authoritative supplemental data service provider". | Harper | Support | 2 | Passed |
| Transportation | SB174 | Transit and Transportation Governance AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes to the Utah Transit Authority (UTA). The bill adjusts the roles between the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director, and the Local Advisory Committee. The bill also requires that any fixed guideway capital development projects are under supervision of the Utah Department of Transportation, regardless of state funding being included, but allows UDOT to hand back any project to UTA that they believe is better suited to oversee it. | Harper | Support | 1 | Passed |
| Transportation | SB195 | Transportation AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes to various transportation programs, and is regularly referred to as the "Transportation Omnibus". Some notable provisions include, (1) Clarifying station area planning (SAP) requirements by reporting on the status of the implementation plan every 5 years, (2) Requires cities to update the transportation and traffic circulation element of their general plan before July 1, 2027, to identify priority connections that remedy physical impediments such as water conveyances with the goal to enhance vehicle, transit, bicycle or pedestrian access . It also would require to identify funding sources and impediments to constructing the connections (3) Requires that property and transit vehicles purchased by UDOT for transit remains in UDOT ownership, (4) Requires that UDOT and UTA should study human service transportation programs and plan to improve their efficiency, (5) Funds specific projects, including out of the County of the First Class Highway Projects Fund, (6) Reinstates UDOTs litter mitigation funding, (7) Removes requirement that municipalities are required to maintain street lighting systems for state highways, and (8) Adjusts the Sales Tax earmark for transportation (TIF) from 17% to 24% and redirects $330M of General Funds for transportation, making this revenue neutral. The 7th substitute of the bill includes some final changes to the limitations on Salt Lake City to implement highway reduction strategies, including: (1)requiring SLC to develop a "mobility plan" that includes an analysis of potential highway reduction strategies on arterials and collectors for a certain area in downtown SLC. This plan must be completed in coordination with various stakeholders, including the business community, and must be approved by UDOT before the projects can be completed. | Harper | Neutral | 1 | Passed |
| Transportation | SB253 | Railroad and Transportation AmendmentsThis bill makes a few changes to railroad functions, including removing oversight from the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food with livestock injured on railroad right of way. It also requires the railroad ombudsman to provide certain reports and complaints to rail companies. | Harper | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Transportation | SB310 | Transportation Utility Fee AmendmentsThis bill would provide certain parameters around the imposition of a transportation utility fee (similar to HB454, Rep. Karen Peterson). However, this bill would exempt religious organizations with a nonprofit status from having to pay a transportation utility fee. Notably, the bill would also exclude active transportation and transit facilities from uses of the transportation utility fee. The substitue bill would allow counties to impose the TUF. | Brammer | Oppose | 2 | Did not pass |
| Transportation | HB026 | Road Jurisdiction AmendmentsThis is the annual bill that adds or removes certain road segments as state highways. | Peterson, K | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB162 | Transportation Funding AmendmentsThis bill makes changes to the 2nd and Fifth-Fifth local option sales taxes. In HB488 (2024), the 2nd quarter was amended to allow 3-6th class counties to use revenues for public safety uses. The same bill allowed 1st class counties to use county portion 5th quarter revenues for public safety. HB162 specifes what public safety expenses revenues could be used for, including infrastructure, vehicles, and equipment, and prohibiting expenses like compensation and personnel. | Shipp | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Transportation | HB198 | Highway Expansion on Signage AmendmentsThis bill deals with the relocation of a billboard when it must be moved due to highway construction, road widening etc. This bill would allow for relocation within 1 mile of the original sign on either side of the highway within the same municipality, or to a different location if agreed upon by the municipality. | Peterson, V. | Neutral | 3 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB229 | Transportation Funds AmendmentsThis bill further defines corridor preservation to mean the path or proposed path of a transportation facility that exists or may exist. Transportation facilities may include highways or transit fixed guideway. | Christofferson | Support | 1 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB290 | Bicycle Lane Safety AmendmentsThis bill prohibits driving or parking within designated bike lanes with the exceptions of turning, emergency or service vehicles. Designated bike lanes are not shared shared lanes for both motor vehicles and bicycles, but are bike lanes designated through striping, signage, pavement, barriers, etc. The bill also requires cities and UDOT to minimize bike lane obstructions from construction when possible or provide a detour. | Mauga | Support | 1 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB429 | Transportation Funding Alignment AmendmentsThis bill makes a few small, but impactful changes to transportation funding. Currently, state law transfers 17% of the state sales tax into the Transportation Investment Fund (TIF). Additionally, there is an ongoing appropriation of $330M into the TIF. HB429 increases the percentage to 24% and eliminates the $330M appropriation. This change has no immediate revenue impact, in that it simply converts the annual transfer into a percentage. But it does create more certainty for future infrastructure investment planning. It will also allow for the investment to grow over time as the economy grows. The bill also ends an annual transfer of funding from the Transportation Fund (from motor fuel tax) to the Transportation Investment Fund, equal to the revenue from 1.8 cents per gallon (approximately $35M annually). This will enable UDOT to focus motor fuel tax funding on maintenance and preservation activities. The provisions in this bill are included in SB195. | V. Peterson | Support | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Transportation | HB454 | Local Government Fees ModificationsThis bill closely mirrors HB367 from Rep. Karen Peterson in the 2024 Legislative Session which spelled out the parameters by which a municipality could impose a transportation utility fee (TUF). The TUF parameters would require adequate process and transparency in imposition, including public notifications, and require the fee to be at a reasonable level tied to a city study that evaluates varying classes of road users and ties the fee to their utilization and impacts on the city road network. | K. Peterson | Support | 1 | Did Not Pass |
| Transportation | HB471 | Transportation Procurement AmendmentsThis bill allows the Utah Department of Transportation to enter into interstate compacts and cooperative agreements for the procurement of transit vehicles. | Roberts | Support | 3 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB502 | Transportation and Infrastructure Funding AmendmentsThis bill makes a number of changes to various transportation funding programs, and does the following: (1)Makes changes to the "5th5th" local option sales tax, (2) Funds a project out of the Transportation Investment Fund, (3) Provides funding for specific projects out of the County of the First Class Highway Projects Fund, (4) Amends provisions of the Cottonwood Canyons Transportation Investment Fund including spending funds related to a public transit hub, (5) Redirects funding from the County of the First Class Infrastructure Bank to fund specific projects, (6) Creates an affordable housing infrastructure grant program which is financed with a $70M UDOT bond. | Teuscher | Neutral | 2 | Passed |
| Transportation | HB523 | Rio Grande Plan AmendmentsThis bill creates the Rio Grande Financial Advisory Authority working group to identify potential funding sources for the Rio Grande Plan. The Rio Grande Plan is a citizen proposal to return rail service to the Rio Grande Depot as the central train station in SLC, by notably eliminating all at grade rail crossings. The advisory authority working group would include a member from the House of Representatives, Senate, Olympic Committee, UTA, UDOT, WFRC, ULCT, GOEO, and various SLC community councils. It would also require WFRC to chair the working group. It would require consultation with railroad companies, and would require reporting on recommendations to various entities. | Dailey Provost | Neutral | 2 | Did Not Pass |
| Transportation | HB544 | Bicycle Rack AmendmentsThis bill would create a matching grant program at the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity for municipalities. It would require that a local municipality have established a local bike rack program, provide matching funds, and certify that grant funds would be used within 12 months. A bike rack program would also allow a business entity to qualify for a matching grant. | Mauga | Support | 3 | Did Not Pass |
| Transportation | HB565 | Traffic Safety AmendmentsThis bill creates a red light camera pilot program, which would pilot 10 high-risk intersections with the use of a red light camera. The bill also designated "Zero Fatalities" as UDOTs highway safety initiative for the State of Utah. | Fitesemanu | Neutral | 3 | Did Not Pass |
