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Last updated 3/10/2010
The 58th Utah legislature 2010 General Session will begin on Monday, January 25, 2010. The session will end at midnight on March 10, 2010. UMA will be following a variety of bills this year. You can see what we are following and monitor the progress on any bill you have a personal interest in by accessing this section of the UMA Website. We will be updating the status of bills regularly. The UMA Legislative and Tax Committee will meet each Monday morning throughout the session to evaluate bills and help formulate policy positions. If you have an interest in a bill and would like to bring it to the attention of this committee, please let us know here at UMA and we can get it to the committee chairman. If you have need for any additional information on a particular bill, please let us know and we will be happy to provide that for you. Please give us a call at 801-364-1874 or email mining@xmission.com |
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| Bill Number | Sponsor | Short Title | Assigned to |
UMA Position | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB-13 | Mayne | State Construction Contracts and Drug and Alcohol Testing (mandatory drug testing - state contracts) | Tom B. |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| SB-20 | Stowell | Local District Amendments (allows the creation of a local district to develop and execute a groundwater management plan in cooperation with the state engineer) | Jensen |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-23 | Valentine | Corporate Franchise and Income Tax Amendments (foreign operating companies) | Young |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-27 | Hillyard | Sales and Use Tax Definition of Tangible Personal Property (Defines tangible personal property to include carpeting, regardless of whether the carpeting is attached to real property) | Buchi |
LP-O | S-Rules |
| SB-32s1 | Jenkins | Rainwater Harvesting (provides for the collection and use of precipitation without obtaining a water right under certain conditions) | Eurick |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-33 | Madsen | State Capitol Preservation Board Fee Amendments (prohibits charging rental fees for certain rooms in the capitol complex during legislative sessions) | Tom B. |
LP-S | Gov. Signed |
| SB-40s1 | Christensen | Cigarette and Tobacco Tax Amendments (Increases tobacco taxes) | Young |
LP-O | S-Rules |
| SB-47s1 | Van Tassell | Electrical Utility Amendments - Efficiency and Conservation Tariff (addresses electric energy efficiency and conservation tariffs for electrical utilities) | Christensen |
Monitor | Defeated |
| SB-49s4 | Jones | Vending Machines in Public Schools (establishes standards for the beverage contents of vending machines in public schools) | Barker |
Monitor | S-Rules |
| SB-51s1 | Hillyard | Bioprospecting (addresses the removal from their natural environment of certain microorganisms, plants, and fungi) | Tom B. |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| SB-81s2 | Hillyard | Eminent Domain Amendments (costs to defendants - burden to proof on entity asking for eminent domain) | Searle |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| SB-84 | Hinkins | Special Service District Amendments (modifies a provision relating to the withdrawal of an area from a special service district) | Young |
Monitor | H-PS |
| SB-87 | Davis | School Property Tax Equalization Revisions (amends the Property Tax Act and provisions related to public education financing to repeal certain school property tax equalization provisions) | Lockhart |
Monitor | S-Rules |
| SB-92s1 | Bramble | Amendments to Revenue and Taxation Title (Modifies penalties for corp. franchise and income tax and defines amounts for estimated tax) | Young |
Monitor | S-Rules |
| SB-93 | Bramble | Gubernatorial Appointment Powers Amendments (defines time periods for rejection by Senate of gubernatorial appointments) | Bird |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| SB-98 | Hinkins | Dangerous Weapons Restrictions Amendments (redefines category II restricted person to include those charged with a felony relating to firearms) | Tuescher |
Monitor | S-Rules |
| SB-99s2 | Valenine | Water Companies and Water Right Change Requests (addresses shareholder and water company rights relating to change applications) | Jensen |
Monitor | Defeated |
| SB-100 | Bramble | Income Tax Credit or Refund Amendments (repeals limits on the amount of an income tax credit or refund) | Young |
HP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-104 | Urquhart | Renewable Energy Modifications (includes certain compressed air energy storage technology as a renewable energy source) | Peterson |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| SB-111 | Hillyard | Repeal of Severance Tax Holding Account (repeals the Severance Tax Holding Account) | Buchi |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-112 | Knudson | Termination of a Billboard and Associated Rights Amendments (prohibits a municipality or a county from requiring that a lawfully erected billboard or associated property right be removed) | Tom B. |
Monitor | S-Rules |
| SB-115 | Robles | Unemployment Insurance Revisions (prohibits denial of benefits for part time workers) | Tom B. |
HP-O | S-Rules |
| SB-122 | Adams | Eminent Domain Revisions (authorizes eminent domain for a byroad leading from a highway to an existing or proposed residence, development, or farm) | Barker |
Enrolling | |
| SB-125 | Bramble | Intangible Property Amendments (expands the definition of intangible property for property tax purposes to include renewable energy tax credits and incentives) | Buchi |
HP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-131 | Hinkins | Energy Cost Recovery and Renewable Energy Provisions (addresses cost recovery for various forms of energy and renewable energy goals under the ERPA) | Teuscher |
HP-O | S-Rules |
| SB-151 | Bramble | Collection, Remittance, and Retention of Certain Taxes, Fees, or Charges (addresses the frequency with which a seller is required to remit certain taxes, fees,or charges to the State Tax Commission) (Vendor Discount) | Buchi |
LP-O | S-Rules |
| SB-161s1 | Madsen | Real Property Transfer Fee Amendments (enacts a provision relating to fees associated with the transfer of real property) | Enrolling | ||
| SB-164 | Stowell | Surety Requirements for Mining (requires the Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining to annually adopt a figure representing the average cost of reclamation per acre) | Todd B. |
Monitor | H-Rules |
| SB-165 | Waddoups | Allocation and Apportionment of Income and Deduction of a Net Loss (amends the Revenue and Taxation title to address the allocation and apportionment of income and the deduction of a net loss by an acquired corporation) | H-3rd Reading | ||
| SB-172s3 | Bramble | Local District Taxing Authority Amendments (amends provisions relating to a metropolitan water district and a water conservancy district) | Buchi |
H-3rd Reading | |
| SB-176 | Jenkins | Utility Revisions (prohibits a city from operating, owning, or leasing an electrical power facility for the purpose of selling surplus electrical power to entities outside the city boundaries except under limited conditions) | S-Rules | ||
| SB-198 | Valentine | Economic Development Incentive Amendments (provides that a local government entity or community development and renewal agency may claim a refundable economic development tax credit under certain circumstances) | H-3rd Reading | ||
| SB-222 | Goodfellow | Fee Exemptions (authorizes a local district to provide a credit for a fee charged by the local district) | Pitchford |
Monitor | S-Sec |
| SB-223 | Dayton | Department of Environmental Quality Boards Amendments (modifies the Environmental Quality Code to modify provisions related to boards within the Department of Environmental Quality, provisions related to executive secretaries to those boards, and related provisions.) | S-Rules | ||
| SB-227s1 | Bramble | State Energy Amendments (allows certain energy services interlocal entities to provide service outside their municipal members' boundaries under certain circumstances) | H-Rules | ||
| SB-231 | Buttars | Medical Benefits Under Workers' Compensation (provides that legislative changes in the time limits in seeking medical benefits made in 2007 are to be applied retroactively) | H-3rd Reading | ||
| SB-242 | Van Tassell | Economic Development Incentives for Alternative Energy Projects (provides definitions for alternative energy, alternative energy development zones,and alternative energy project and sets criteria) | Neilson |
HP-S | Enrolling |
| SB-244 | Bramble | Annexation Amendments (authorizes property owners in a resort area to file an annexation request with a municipality) | Defeated | ||
| SB-251s1 | Buttars | Verification of Employment Eligibility (enacts the Private Employer Verification Act - mandates use of E-Verify by all private employers in Utah) | H-3rd Reading | ||
| SB-276 | Jones | Promoting Healthy Lifestyles in Public Schools (requires the State Board of Education to report data related to vending machine contents and students' physical activity) | Barker |
S-Rules | |
H = House; S = Senate; BUS = Business and Labor; EDU = Education; GOP = Government Operations and Political Subdivisions; HHS = Health and Human Services; JLE = Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice; JUD = Judiciary; LE = Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice; NAE = Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment; PUT = Public Utilities and Technology; REV = Revenue and Taxation; RIE = Retirement & Indepentent Entities; TR = Transportation; TPT = Transportation and Public Utilities and Technology; WED = Workforce Services & Community & Economic Development; Con = Consent Calendar
2010 HOUSE BILLS
Go to Senate Bills S=Support; O=Oppose; HP=High Profile; LP=Low Profile
| Bill Number | Sponsor | Short Title | Assigned to |
UMA Position |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB-11 | Wiley | Licensing of Elevator Contractors and Elevator Mechanics (mandatory licensure - commercial) | Tom B. |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-18 | Mascaro | Unemployment Insurance Amendments (modifies base period for qualification) | Tom B. |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-23 | Beck | Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing (establishes standards for confirmation testing and clarifies employer protections) | Tom B. |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-24 | Wallis | Economic Development Incentives Act Amendments (redefines incentive requirements) | Fredde |
HP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-33 | Noel | Groundwater Recharge and Recovery Act Amendments (requires 60 day notice for permit) | Holtkamp |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-34 | Noel | Water Storage Projects (requires proof and certification on water storage projects) | Jensen |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-43 | Mascaro | Unemployment Compensation Amendments (social security offset) | Tom B. |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-44 | Hunsaker | Referendum Ballot Proposition Amendments (clarifies for and against votes) | Bird |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-48s1 | Frank | Amendments to the Tourism, Recreation, Cultural, Convention, and Airport Facilities Tax Act (replaces restaurant tax with sales tax) | Pitchford |
HP-O |
H-Rules |
| HB-49 | Kiser | Amendments Related to a Tax, Fee, or Charge Admin-istered by the State Tax Commission (defines authority of Tax Commission regarding taxes and fees administered by TC) | Pitchford |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-52 | Newbold | Health Reform - Uniform Electronic Standards - Insurance Information (uniform electronic standards for health insurance processes) | Bradshaw |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-54 | Painter | Property Tax Exemption for Water Facilities (property tax exemption for water-related facilities for nonprofits) | Todd B. |
LP-S |
Enrolling |
| HB-60s1 | Hunsaker | Water Conveyance Facilities Safety Act (addresses the safety and management of water conveyance facilities) | Jensen |
LP-S |
S-Rules |
| HB-61 | Froerer | Real Property Sales Information Disclosure (modifies provisions relating to real property sales information) | Buchi |
Monitor |
H-Rules |
| HB-63 | Hendrickson | Tire Recycling Fee Modification (doubles fee for tires 22.5" and 24.5") | Eurick |
Monitor |
H-Rules |
| HB-66 | Litvack | Prosthetic Limb Health Insurance Parity (requires insurers to cover prosthetic devices) | Tom B. |
HP-O |
S-Rules |
| HB-67s1 | Wimmer | Health System Amendments (prohibits state entities from adopting fed. health reform without legislative approval - opt out provision) | Bradshaw |
Monitor |
Enrolling |
| HB-69 | Gowans | State Engineer's Plugging of Wells Repealer (repeals St. Eng.'s authority to plug artesian wells) | Tuttle |
Monitor |
Enrolling |
| HB-78s3 | Sandstrom | Weapons Revisions (provides open carry authority and drawing firearms in danger situations) | Reitze |
Monitor |
Enrolling |
| HB-80 | Fowlke | Public Access to Private Stream Beds (allows recreational activity within the ordinary high water mark of public water over a private bed. Addresses portage, fences and penalties) | Todd B. |
Monitor |
Defeated |
| HB-84 | Draxler | Water Banking (allows local districts to participate in water banking and provides for the use, lease, purchase, sale, or non-use of water rights by a local district participating in water banking) | Todd B. |
LP-O |
H-Rules |
| HB-85 | Seegmiller | Responsible Development of Nuclear Power Generation (restricts PSC authority to issue permit unless disposal site is available) | Searle |
HP-O |
H-Rules |
| HB-90 | King | Income Tax Amendments (creates brackets and increases tax on higher incomes) | Young |
HP-O |
H-Rules |
| HB-102s2 | Draxler | Agriculture Sustainability Act (creates the Agriculture Sustainability Act) | Tom B. |
HP-O | H-Rules |
| HB-118 | Harper | Economic Development Incentives Modifications (modifies economic development provisions include the retention of companies whose relocation outside the state would have a significant detrimental economic impact) | Tuescher |
HP-S |
S-3rd Reading |
| HB-120 | McIff/Harper | Underground Storage Tank Amendments (increases the coverage limits for participants in the Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund) | Tuescher |
Enrolling | |
| HB-141s2 | McIff | Recreational Use of Public Water on Private Property (outlines circumstances under which the public may acquire recreational access to public water on private property) | Todd B. |
Monitor | H-Speaker |
| HB-143 | Herrod | Eminent Domain Authority (authorizes the state to exercise eminent domain authority on property possessed by the federal government unless the property is owned by the federal government in accordance with the United States Constitution) | Todd B. |
Monitor | H-Speaker |
| HB-145s2 | Last | Renewable Energy Financing Provisions (excludes from the definition of a "public utility" an independent energy producer that provides service to a customer on the real property where an independent power production facility is located) | Enrolling | ||
| HB-148 | Harper | Sales and Use Tax Changes (enacts the Rural Health Care Compensation Fund to address the funding of rural health care) | Pitchford |
H-Rules | |
| HB-153s2 | Edwards | Recycling of Electronic Items (establishes the Consumer Electronic Recycling Program within the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste funded by assessments on consumer electronic manufacturers) | S-Rules | ||
| HB-169 | Edwards | Refinery Amendments (authorizes a legislative body considering a zoning change or a land use authority considering a land use application to consult with a refinery before adopting the zoning change or approving the land use application) | S-2nd Reading | ||
| HB-171 | Gibson | Modifications to Government Law (allows the state engineer to limit the approval of a change application for a water right to an amount less than the original water right if the use of water under that right has been in a quantity smaller than the original right allowed) | S-Rules | ||
| HB-180 | Frank | Outdoor Advertising Amendments (modifies the Utah Municipal Code, the Counties Code, and the Protection of Highways Act by amending provisions relating to outdoor advertising) | Tom B. |
Monitor |
H-Rules |
| HB-188 | Harper | Workers' Compensation Benefits - Social Security Offset (repeals Social Security Offset for Workers Comp. Benefits) | Tom B. |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-192 | Watkins | Renewable Energy - Methane Gas (defines electrical energy derived from methane gas as from a renewable energy source) | Tuescher |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-196s1 | Ray | Tobacco Tax Revisions (increases tobacco taxes) | Young |
LP-O | Enrolling |
| HB-203 | Watkins | Repeal of Sales and Use Tax Exemption Relating to Mining (repeals mining exemption for parts, machinery, etc.) | Todd B. |
HP-O | H-Rules |
| HB-207s1 | Wimmer | Protection of Property Amendment (redefines defense for use of force to protect property) | Reitze |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| HB-210 | Frank | Eminent Domain Modifications (provides litigation award if greater than 5% of offer) | Searle |
Monitor |
H-Rules |
| HB-217 | Wimmer | Income Tax Revisions (reduces corp. and individual income tax rate from 5% - 4.75%) | Pitchford |
Monitor |
H-Rules |
| HB-226 | Painter | Well Driller's License - Pump Installation (defines "well drilling" to include installation or repair of a pump in a well and subjects a person installing or repairing a pump in a well for compensation to well driller licensing requirements) | Jensen |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-228 | Barrus | Renewable Energy Source Amendments (includes energy derived from municipal solid waste as a renewable energy source) | Butcher |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-229 | Painter | Water Right General Adjudication Amendments (redefines provisions regarding objections to State Engineer's proposed determination of water rights) | Jensen |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-231 | Gibson | Water Rights Priorities in Times of Shortage (defines exceptions to first in time first in right priorities in water rights) | Jensen |
Monitor | S-2nd Reading |
| HB-234s1 | Sandstrom | Opting Out of the Real Id Act (Prohibits the State from participating in the REAL ID Act of 2005) | Bradshaw |
LP-O | Enrolling |
| HB-259s2 | Harper | Property Tax Amendments (addresses county assessor requirements) | Pitchford |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-267s1 | Garn | Lobbyist Disclosure and Regulation Act Amendments (redefines lobbying and disclosure to include legislature and executive branch) | Bird |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-270s1 | Hughes | Financial Disclosure and Conflict of Interest Amendments (enacts provisions of the Utah Code that relate to financial disclosures and the declaration of conflicts of interest) | Bird |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-280s1 | Lockhart | Real Property - Notice of Transfer Fees () | Tuescher | S-2nd Reading | |
| HB-290 | Webb | Recreational Use of Privately Owned Stream Beds (recognizes public recreational use of privately owned beds below public waters) (Wet Feet) |
Todd B. |
Monitor | H-Rules |
| HB-291 | Grover | Applicability of Land Use Provisions to Federal Government (modifies county and municipal land use provisions relating to their applicability to the federal government) | Todd B. |
LP-O | H-Rules |
| HB-294 | Clark, D | Health System Reform Amendments (amends provisions related to health system reform for the insurance market, health care providers, the Health Code, and the Office of Consumer Health Services) | Bradshaw |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HB-295s02 | Painter | Expanded Uses of School District Property Tax Revenue (allows a local school board to use revenue collected from certain property tax levies for educators' salaries for fiscal year 2010-11 only) | Fredde |
LP-O | S-Rules |
| HB-309 | Mathis | Surface Owner Protection Act (enacts the Surface Owner Protection Act, which establishes procedures for an operator to follow when conducting an oil or gas operation) | Peacock |
HP-O | H-Rules |
| HB-310 | Bigelow | Spending Limits Amendments (modifies the list of monies considered "appropriations" that are used in the formula that determines the state appropriations limit for each fiscal year) | Barker |
Enrolling | |
| HB-311s1 | Lockhart | Autism Treatment Fund (creates a restricted special revenue fund known as the Autism Treatment Fund) | Stan |
Enrolling | |
| HB-314s1 | Ferry | Water Rights Addendums to Deeds (allows a person submitting for recording a deed conveying title to land or title to water rights to submit also a water rights addendum) | Todd B. |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| HB-322 | Hansen | Property Tax Valuation Amendments (modifies the definition of fair market value with regards to residential property to require a county assessor to value a residence)(California proposition 13) | Pitchford |
H-Rules | |
| HB-331s2 | Menlove | Waste Fee and Related Amendments (addresses provisions related to the Environmental Quality Restricted Account; provides for a supplementary fee to be charged by the Department of Environment Quality for certain services) | Enrolling | ||
| HB-335s1 | Hughes | Utility Related Exemptions (provides that certain entities providing electricity to certain owners and creditors are not considered an electrical corporation or public utility) | Barker |
HP-S | S-2nd reading |
| HB-343 | Ferry | Great Salt Lake Commission (enacts the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council Act to create the Great Salt Lake Advisory Council) | S-2nd Reading | ||
| HB-349 | Harper | Sales and Use Tax Amendments (provides that the administrative fee the State Tax Commission charges with respect to the municipal energy sales and use tax shall be expended to administer the municipal energy sales and use tax) | Enrolling | ||
| HB-383 | Harper | County Tax Amendments (authorizes a county of the first class to levy an energy sales and use tax, and to levy a telecommunications license tax) | Barker |
HP-O | H-Rules |
| HB-394 | Clark, S | Motor and Special Fuel Tax Act Amendments (amends the definition of clean fuel to include liquified natural gas; provides that no tax is imposed or collected on liquified natural gas) | Tuescher/ Barker |
H-Rules | |
| HB-456 | Edwards | Amendments to Department of Environmental Quality (adds two members to the Air Quality Board, Transportation and Punlic Health) | Holtkamp |
HP-O | S-Rules |
| HB-459s1 | Dee | General Government Modifications (amends provisions related to transparency and health benefits in the Insurance Code and the Medicaid program) | H-Speaker | ||
| HCR-8 | Clark, D | Concurrent Resolution on Federal Health Care Reform (encourages Congress to refuse to pass any healthcare reform containing certain provisions) | Bradshaw |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-5 | Moss | Joint Resolution on Clean Air (encourages the citizens of Utah to eliminate all unnecessary idling of motor vehicles) | Eurick |
HP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-7 | Froerer | Joint Resolution Prohibiting Property Transfer Tax (proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to amend a provision relating to taxation) | Tuescher |
Monitor | H-Rules |
| HJR-10 | Morley | Joint Resolution Opposing the Establishment of a Federal Commission on State Workers' Compensation Laws (supports state-based WC system and opposes Federal intervention) | Bird |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-11 | Morley | Joint Resolution Regarding Federal Health Insurance Reform (encourages Congress to refrain from passing certain healthcare reform measures) | Bradshaw |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| HJR-12 | Gibson, K | Climate Change Joint Resolution (urges EPA to cease their CO2 reduction policies and programs) | Holtkamp |
HP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-14 | Hughes | Joint Rules Resolution on Financial Disclosures (Modifies rules relating to the declaration and disclosure of conflicts of interest and filing financial disclosures) | Bird |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-15 | Clark, D | Joint Resolution on Legislative Ethics Commission (proposes to amend the Utah Constitution to establish a legislative ethics commission) | Bird |
LP-S | Enrolling |
| HJR-21 | Noel | Joint Resolution on Energy Policy (urges Utah to withdraw from the Western Climate Initiative) | Bird |
LP-S | S-Rules |
| HJR-26s1 | Ferry | Joint Resolution Approving Water Rights Addendum Form (adopts the water rights addendum to land deeds; and the water rights addendum to water deeds) | Jensen |
Monitor | Enrolling |
| HJR-33 | Brown | Marking of Underground Utilities Joint Resolution (urges the Public Service Commission to review, in conjunction with utility companies, methods of marking underground utilities) | Butcher |
Monitor | S-2nd Reading |
H = House; S = Senate; BUS = Business and Labor; EDU = Education; GOP = Government Operations and Political Subdivisions; HHS = Health and Human Services; JLE = Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice; JUD = Judiciary; LE = Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice; NAE = Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment; PUT = Public Utilities and Technology; REV = Revenue and Taxation; RIE = Retirement & Indepentent Entities; TR = Transportation; TPT = Transportation and Public Utilities and Technology; WED = Workforce Services & Community & Economic Development; Con = Consent Calendar