(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utah lawmakers are finally in accord about university diversity programs. On Friday lawmakers passed a bill that offers an overhaul of diversity, equity and inclusion programming at the state’s public universities. It took a week and a half of debate but the Utah House on […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – A compromise by Utah lawmakers is behind the passage announced of a controversial transgender bathroom bill. The bill now heads to Governor Spencer Cox. House members had initially said no to changes the Senate was offering to House Bill 257. The bill was batted back […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – A Utah legislative committee is considering a bill that would offer residents and businesses a 160-million dollar income tax cut. The Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee on Wednesday took public comment on Senate Bill 69 which would lower Utah’s individual and corporate income tax rate […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — People who experience sexual harassment or assault at work, and have previously signed an NDA, may soon be able to speak out. The Employment Confidentiality Amendments would keep Utah businesses from being able to have employees sign a nondisclosure agreement or a non-disparagement clause. Republican […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Lawmakers are seeking to streamline the removal of certain kinds of books from the state’s public school library shelves. The House Education Committee on Tuesday voted ten to two recommending approval of HB29. This bill clarifies and updates how officials are to determine what books […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Big changes have been made to Utah’s controversial “trans bathroom bill”. House Bill 257 originally banned people from using public restrooms that don’t align with the gender on their birth certificate, but this is no longer the case. The current version of the bill allows […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — A possible path to protecting the Great Salt Lake may be stopped before even being considered. A bill banning personhood to various non-human entities like bodies of water, land, artificial intelligence, weather, plants and animals will be presented on the house floor. Republican Representative Walt […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Ute Tribe students are in jeopardy of losing their University tuition waivers. This comes as the Utah Legislature considers a bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion on publicly funded college campuses. Senate bill sponsor Republican Keith Grover said in a quote to the Salt Lake […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah is considering being the newest state to allow natural organic reduction after death. The process consists of turning human remains into soil by mixing the remains with bacteria, like composting. Utah would potentially be the seventh state to legalize it with the Arizona legislature […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Children heading into kindergarten may soon need to be potty trained by law. GOP Representative Douglas Welton is looking to make a specific rule requiring your child is able to use the restroom to enroll in kindergarten. While no official data is collected on child […]
