Promises Kept

More local control and equitable funding in education

  • SB196 (2017) Removed administrative bureaucratic reporting requirements

  • SB240* (2017) Would have increased school-level control of budgets and spending

  • HB368 (2017) Requires review of education funding streams to increase efficiency and increase local control

  • HB293 (2018) Provided the Equity Pupil Unit so that low property-value districts with many students (like Jordan) will receive equitable funding; also gave local principals more control over education dollars

  • SB104 (2020) Local Education Levy State Guarantee Amendments - Another step toward equity funding for students in lower funded districts like Jordan

  • SB195 (2020) Background Checks for Minor Employees - Addresses the problem if schools want to hire someone under 18 years old, by law no one can see the results of the required background check.

Do better at helping those who can’t help themselves

  • SB153 (2016) Self-Reliance Training in Public Welfare Programs

  • SB242 (2016) Directs more money to school children with intensive special needs

  • SB75 (2017) Enhances protection for children’s welfare

  • SB39 (2019) Provides new community- and family-based treatment options to people with mental illness at lower cost to taxpayers

  • HB332 (2020) Special Needs Scholarship Amendments - Creates income tax credit for corporations that donate to a scholarship granting organization that provides scholarships to students with special needs

Push back against federal intrusion and control

  • SB209 (2017) Makes the state less dependent on federal dollars

  • HB363 (2017) Requires local approval and accountability for new federal applications

  • Chair of the Federalism Commission

Give you more control over your life and government less

  • SB94 (2017) Making property taxes more transparent and accountable

  • SB154 (2017) Expanded the rights of homeowners on their own property related to generating energy

  • HB82 (2017) Allows for the local use of street-legal ATVs

  • SB65 (2018) Free Range Kids—allows parents to be parents without fear of government interference

  • SB101 (2018) Limits government ability to make a major adjustment to property assessment

  • SB86 (2019) Allows for new kinds of savings accounts by easing regulations on banks and account holders

  • SB107* (2019) Would have eased local government restrictions on how you use your own property

  • SB179 (2019) Increases transparency and accountability when local governments consider tax increases

  • HB198 (2020) Eminent Domain Limitations - Limits the use of eminent domain for a public park in the case of a century farm, which is a farm that has been in the same family for 100 years or more.

  • HB202 (2020) Local Government Nuisance Ordinance Reform - Decriminalizes local code violations (like an overgrown lawn, dog getting out) that are not injurious to others

  • SB142 (2020) Delivery Driver Age Requirements - Changes the age for delivery drivers from 19 to 18

  • SCR10 (2020) Concurrent Resolution on State Employee Benefits and Providing Refund from the State Health Insurance Pool - Allows state employees more flexibility in how they are compensated and returns to the state over eighteen million dollars in excess money held in reserve by the state health insurance pool

Be open, accessible, and responsive to you (Each of these bills was initiated on behalf of a constituent or citizen who raised a problem):

  • SB52 (2017) Balances the interests of landlords and tenants in rental disputes

  • SB64 (2017) Allows a deferral of a state scholarship program

  • SB75 (2017) Enhances protections for children’s welfare

  • SB124 (2017) Updates regulations for child care providers

  • SB146* (2017) Would have removed “constables” from political interference

  • SB41 (2018) Will bring back the black and white Utah license plates

  • SB60 (2018) Allows an occupational license to be placed on hold for military service

  • SB102* (2018) Would have allowed darker tinting on a car’s windows

  • SB135 (2018) Limits insurance companies from denying claims without supporting evidence

  • SB47 (2019) Gives older children more say in their placement when parental rights are terminated

  • SB100 (2019) Will create digital driver licenses you can carry on your phone

  • SB106 (2019) Allows schools to bill a students’ insurance company for clinical services provided at

    school

  • SB182 (2019) Protects dog owners against claims of injury by trespassers

* Did not pass