WFRC Bill Tracker

2025 General Session, Utah Legislature

2025 WFRC Bill Tracker

Notes on Priority and Position columns:

Priority 1 – top priority with potentially significant or direct impacts to WFRC and its members.
Priority 2 – mid-level priority with potentially significant or indirect impacts to WFRC and its members.
Priority 3 – important but not a top priority with significant or direct impacts to WFRC and its members.

WFRC will “support”, “neutral”, or “oppose” legislation. Bills for which a position has not yet been taken will be indicated as such with “TBD”. Positions are established by Council members who choose to participate in informal discussions held during the legislative session when WFRC does not have a regularly scheduled meeting. The unofficial positions do not necessarily reflect the views of any individual Council member or organization represented on the Council.

Positions on legislation that are staff recommendations that have not yet been considered by WFRC members are noted below with an asterisk (*).


1	Category	Bill Nbr	Bill Title Bill Description	Primary Sponsor	WFRC Position	WFRC Priority	Status/Notes

2	Air Quality	HB185	Railroad Modifications This 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	TBD*	2
3	Housing	SB023	First Home Investment Zone Amendments This 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	Committee Bill
4	Housing	SB026	Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone Amendments This bill makes a few technical changes to the HTRZ 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, and 2) clarifies that tax increment may only be triggered up to three times per project.	Harper	Support*	1	Committee Bill
5	Housing	HB037	Utah Housing Amendments 1) creates an optional overlay tool for cities to provide a density bonus in exchange for units being affordable and owner-occupied; 2) seeks to improve data collection about housing, zoning, development, and infrastructure; 3) requires the creation of regional plans around housing by the summer of 2025.	Dunnigan	TBD*	2
6	Land Use	HB044	Private Airport Notice Amendments This bill requies a municipality to record with the county any parcel of land that is within 5,000 feet of any significant private airport, before Jan. 1st 2026.	Ballard	TBD*	3
7	Housing	HB088	Housing Policy Amendments This 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	TBD*	3
8	Land Use	HB090	Zoning Amendments Allows 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	TBD*	3
9	Housing	HB149	Single Family Homes Ownership Amendments This bill prohibits an institutional investor from purchasing a single family home in the state, and provides that an institutional investor that does purchase a single family home must alienate that home within one year of purchase.	Clancy	TBD*	3
10	Land Use		Utah Fairpark Area Investment and Restoration District Amendments	Fillmore
11	Land Use		Local Zoning Amendments	McCay
12	Land Use		Riparian Amendments	Bennion
13	Land Use		Local Land Use Regulation Amendments	Ballard
14	Misc.	HB176	County Classification Amendments This bill changes population requirements for county classifications. First Class (1,000,000+), Second Class (250,000-999,999), Third Class (55,000 - 249,999), Fourth Class (15,000 - 54,999), Fifth Class (5,000 - 14,999), and Sixth Class (0-4,999). The bill further changes the definition of "rural counties" to exclude 3rd class counties with a municipality greater than 100,000. The bill also excludes a certain third class county from the Rural Transportation Infrastructure Fund.	Brooks	TBD*	3
15	Misc.		Community Development Projects Amendments	Blouin
16	Misc.		Utah Retirement Systems Amendments	Harper
17	Taxes		County Sales and Use Tax Amendments	Fillmore
18	Transportation	HB026	Road Jurisdiction Amendments This is the annual bill that adds or removes certain road segments as state highways.	Peterson, K	Support*	3
19	Transportation	SB096	Advanced Air Mobility Amendments This 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 "flightinformation exchange", "Unmanned aircraft system service supplier", and "authoritative supplemental data service provider".	Harper	Support*	2
20	Transportation	HB162	Transportation Funding Amendments This bill makes changes to the 2nd and 5th quarter 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 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	TBD*	2
21	Transportation	HB229	Transportation Funds Amendments This 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	TBD*	2
22	Transportation		Transportation Amendments	Harper
23	Transportation		Transportation Funding Modifications	Harper