SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Legislature has adjourned, passing a $29 billion budget and hundreds of new laws that will impact your life.
Lawmakers also passed a bill that shifts funds into an account in anticipation of venue upgrades for the 2034 Winter Olympics that Salt Lake City is currently bidding for.Governor Spencer Cox asked for hundreds of millions of dollars for housing and homelessness, but got only some of that. Lawmakers did do something to find more money.
A bill to expand who can inspect homes faced initial objection from cities, but was amended to let someone seek a third party inspector if they can’t get it done quickly by a municipality. Rep. Marsha Judkins proposed a bill to require landlords to give tenants more notice if they’re going to raise the rent. It passed the House, but failed to pass the Senate.As always, the biggest battle for education is one around funding. Lawmakers did appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars more for public education in the form of teacher salaries, paid professional hours and the weighted pupil unit.
A bill by Rep. Tim Jimenez to offer trainings to teachers to carry concealed weapons . But a requirement that schools post signs that warn it is “not a gun free zone” was stripped out of the bill. A separate bill to teach firearm safety in schools did not advance. A bill that would have demanded that classrooms be “neutral” in response to a what its sponsor called a “perception” that some ideologies are being pushed on students. It faced pushback from Republicans and Democrats alike on the House floor and it failed to pass the House.
A bill passed that would offer teachers more money for classroom supplies, instead of having them dip into their own pocketbooks. Elementary school teachers will get $500, while secondary school teachers get $250. Student surveys will be “opt-in” but the Student Health and Risk Prevention survey, which has been the subject of scrutiny by conservative state school board members, will remain under a bill that passed the legislature.A bill that would “re-license” abortion clinics in Utah passed. The bill’s sponsor, House Majority Whip Karianne Lisonbee, said it was designed to simplify questions about the legality of Utah’s abortion “trigger law” before the state Supreme Court.
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