Updated: March 5, 2008
Bill Title Sponsor Summary Status Position
HB76 GOVERNMENT COMPETITION AND PRIVATIZATION ACT Craig A. Frank This bill repeals the existing Privatization Policy Board and enacts the Government Competition and Privatization Act, including creating the State Government Competition and Privatization Commission and the requirement that local governments create a local government competition and privatization commission. 3/5/2008 House/ enacting clause struck  Oppose
HB87 PRIMARY SEAT BELT LAW  Richard A. Greenwood  This bill: repeals the provision that makes a safety belt violation for a person 19 years of age or older enforceable only as a secondary action when the person is detained for another offense. 3/5/2008 House/ enacting clause struck  Support
HB101 AMENDMENTS TO EMERGENCY INJECTION FOR ANAPHYLACTIC REACTION ACT Todd E. Kiser This bill: defines terms; provides that a school, school board, or school official of a primary or secondary school may not prohibit or dissuade a teacher from receiving training to administer, possessing, storing, or administering an epinephrine auto-injector; requires each primary or  secondary school in the state to make an emergency epinephine auto-injector available to any teacher employed at the school who is qualified to administer an epinephrine auto-injector; requires each primary and secondary school to make training available, regarding the storage and use of an epinephrine auto-injector, to a teacher who volunteers to take the training; and makes technical changes. 2/21/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
HB107 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL  Curtis Oda  This bill: changes the name of the Disaster Emergency Advisory Council to the Emergency Management Administration Council; expands its duties to include coordination with both state and local government agencies on government emergency prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery actions and activities; changes the membership of the council; requires the council to coordinate with existing emergency management entities; allows the council to create additional committees and task forces as needed; and makes technical changes. 2/19/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
HB140 CHILD RESTRAINT DEVICE AMENDMENTS  Tim M. Cosgrove  This bill: requires that the operator of a motor vehicle shall provide for the protection of a person younger than eight years of age by using an appropriate child restraint device with certain exceptions; and makes technical changes. 3/5/2008 Bill Received from House for Enrolling  Support
HB153 IMPACT FEES AMENDMENTS Michael T. Morley This bill: expands a requirement for a capital facilities plan to include private water providers that impose impact fees; removes language limiting application of a capital facilities plan notice requirement to land within a county of the first or second class; requires certain notices to be given to certain private construction and real estate entities; modifies a provision requiring notice to be given of a local political subdivision's independent capital facilities plan; expands a provision requiring an impact fee analysis with respect to the imposition of impact fees to apply to private water providers; requires notice to be provided before a local political subdivision or private water provider may prepare or contract to prepare the required impact fee analysis; modifies a provision that requires a copy of an impact fee enactment to be available to the public and that requires notice of the impact fee enactment; requires impact fee enactments to allow a developer to receive a credit or proportionate reimbursement of an impact fee for land, improvements, or construction that the developer is required to provide in excess of requirements for the project; includes private water providers in other impact fee provisions; prohibits an impact fee enactment from taking effect until 90 days after it is enacted; and makes technical changes. 3/3/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Oppose
HB202 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT AMENDMENTS John Dougall  This bill modifies the Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act by allowing the transfer of certain member's defined benefit balance to a defined contribution plan, by adding certain employees who may elect to be excluded from membership in the public employees retirement systems and by allowing certain new public safety members to elect a 30 year retirement plan and additional salary in lieu of a 20 year retirement. 3/3/2008 Senate/ substitute  Oppose
HB202-S01 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT AMENDMENTS John Dougall  This bill: defines certain terms; allows certain elected state officials and certain appointed executives and senior staff to elect to have the members' defined benefit balance transferred from the defined benefit system or plan to a defined contribution plan; allows certain employees to be excluded, upon written request, from future coverage under the Public Employees' Contributory Retirement System and the Public Employees' Noncontributory Retirement System, including employees of the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, employees of the governor's offices, and employees of the state treasurer and state auditor; and makes technical changes. 3/4/2008 Bill Received from House for Enrolling   
HB288 911 COMMITTEE Brad L. Dee  This bill: provides additional members to the Utah 911 Committee; and makes technical changes. 2/20/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
HB292 LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE TO STUDY RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN UTAH Brad L. Dee  This bill: provides for a 17 member task force, composed of legislators and others, to review and make recommendations concerning certain radio communications matters; addresses appointment, compensation, and staffing of the task force; and provides for a report from the task force to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee. 3/5/2008 House/ filed  Support
HB293-S02 CERTIFIED PRIVATE BUILDING INSPECTOR AUTHORIZED Douglas C. Aagard  This bill modifies county and municipal land use provisions relating to building inspections. 3/5/2008 House/ filed  Oppose
HB294-S01 APPROPRIATION LIMIT AMENDMENTS - FIRE SUPPRESSION  Ben C. Ferry  This bill: exempts certain supplemental appropriations made to the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands to provide monies for wildland fire control expenses from the State Appropriations and Tax Limitation Act. 2/15/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
HB434 FIREFIGHTER SPECIAL GROUP LICENSE PLATE AMENDMENTS Ronda Rudd Menlove   This bill: provides that beginning on July 1, 2008, a firefighter special group license plate shall be converted from a recognition special group license plate to a contributor special group license plate; requires applicants for a firefighter contributor special group license plate to make a $15 annual donation to the Firefighter Support Restricted Account; requires a person who has been issued a firefighter recognition special group license plate to, upon renewal of the person's motor vehicle registration, be a contributor to the Firefighter Support Restricted Account or... 3/5/2008 House/ enacting clause struck  Support
SB18 PUBLIC SAFETY RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFIT MODIFICATIONS Jon J. Greiner This bill raises the cap on the death benefits of retired members of the public safety retirement systems. 3/5/2008 Senate/ filed  Support
SB19 ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY RETIREMENT SYSTEMS COLA OPTION Carlene M. Walker This bill modifies the Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act by allowing participating employers to provide an enhanced maximum annual cost-of-living adjustment for certain public safety retirees. 3/4/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
SB44-S01 PENALTIES FOR FAILING TO SECURE A LOAD OR LITTERING ON A HIGHWAY Patricia W. Jones  This bill: increases the fine for littering on a highway for a second or subsequent violation... 2/18/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Support
SB51 IMPACT FEES - PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY Gregory S. Bell This bill modifies the definition of public safety facility in the Impact Fees Act. 3/5/2008 Senate/ enacting clause struck  Support
           
HB50 UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AMENDMENTS Sylvia S. Andersen  This bill: amends references to federal statutes regulating underground storage tanks; and makes technical corrections. 2/19/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Watch
HB75-S02 INVENTORY AND REVIEW OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES Craig A. Frank This bill modifies provisions related to the Privatization Policy Board. 3/4/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Watch
HB133-S01 HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM David Clark This bill requires the Department of Health, the Insurance Department, and the Governor's Office of Economic Development to work with the Legislature to develop and implement the state's strategic plan for health system reform. 3/4/2008 Senate/ substitute  Watch
HB133-S02 HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM David Clark Substitute 3/4/2008 House/ signed by Speaker sent for enrolling  Watch
HB134 GOVERNMENT IMMUNITY AMENDMENTS Douglas C. Aagard  This bill: provides that, in order to be exempted from the standard time that the statute of limitations begins to run, a claimant against a governmental entity must show that the claimant could not reasonably have known of the existence of the cause of action in time to file a claim within the limitation period; and makes technical changes. 3/5/2008 House/ enacting clause struck   Watch
HB224 CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS FOR TYPE II ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY Rebecca D. Lockhart  This bill: allows a type II assisted living facility to be a two-story, wood-frame building under certain conditions; and requires the Department of Health to make rules concerning certain aspects of construction of a type II assisted living facility. 3/5/2008 House/ enacting clause struck  Watch
HB277 PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AMENDMENTS Bradley G. Last  This bill: provides that an entity that allows a governmental agency or political subdivision to use its building to provide drugs or vaccines during certain declared public health emergencies is protected from liability during the public health emergency. 2/20/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Watch
HB290 MUNICIPAL OVERSIGHT OF RENTAL DWELLINGS Gage Froerer  This bill: eliminates a provision exempting owners of buildings with two or fewer rental dwellings from regulatory business license or inspection requirements; eliminates a provision authorizing a municipality to impose a reasonable inspection fee for the inspection of a rental dwelling; prohibits a municipality from: imposing a fee H. on or after September 1, 2008 .H for the inspection of a rental dwelling; interfering with the ability of an owner of a rental dwelling to contract with a tenant concerning the payment of utility and municipal service costs; H. [regulating the practice of submetering, ratio utility billing, or other utility cost allocation method; ] .H requiring the owner of a rental dwelling to retrofit a rental dwelling with or install in a rental dwelling a safety feature not required at the time the rental dwelling was constructed, H. [ other than a smoke detector; or ] except as required under the Utah Uniform Building Standards Act for a structural change to the rental dwelling, or as required in an ordinance adopted before January 1, 2008 ; and  [imposing a civil or criminal penalty on the owner of a rental dwelling for a safety device controlled by a tenant; and ] .H 3/4/2008 Bill Received from House for Enrolling  Watch
HB323-S01 EMINENT DOMAIN AMENDMENTS Aaron Tilton   This bill: clarifies an exclusion from a public use relating to trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian use, or other recreational uses for which eminent domain may not be used; excludes emergency access ways as a public use for which eminent domain may be used; and excludes certain parks from the scope of what is a public use for purposes of eminent domain. 3/4/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared  Watch
HB494 AMENDMENTS TO THE UTAH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE SYSTEM ACT John Dougall This bill: changes a license to provide inter-facility transport services from an exclusive license in a geographic service area to a non-exclusive license in a geographic service area when the political subdivision is not providing inter-facility transport; permits both a licensed ground ambulance provider and a licensed paramedic provider to obtain an inter-facility transport license; defines inter-facility transport; allows a political subdivision that currently provides inter-facility transport services to subcontract inter-facility transport services to another licensed provider, once notice is given to the department; establishes certain requirements for a non-exclusive inter-facility transport license; requires a political subdivision that is seeking a license to provide paramedic services to demonstrate to the department how the political subdivision will impact providers who are providing inter-facility transfers in the geographic service area;  limits the marketing activities of an inter-facility transport provider; and defines certain activities as illegal activities. 3/5/2008 House/ filed  Watch
SB26 FIRE MANAGEMENT AREAS Margaret Dayton  This bill allows the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands to enter into an agreement establishing a predetermined fire suppression plan.
 2/6/2008 Draft of Enrolled Bill Prepared Watch
SB29-S01 TRUTH IN TAXATION AMENDMENTS Wayne L. Niederhauser  This bill: amends certain exemptions from property tax advertisement and hearing requirements; requires a school district to include a statement in its proposition submitted to its voters voting on the imposition or modification of a voted leeway program under certain circumstances; provides that a school district may continue to receive the full amount of state guarantee money tied to the voted leeway program and board approved leeway for a period of five years if the school district's guarantee would have been reduced solely due to changes in the school district's certified tax rate; defines terms; and makes technical changes. 2/21/2008 Senate/ signed by President/ Enrolled  Watch
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