Rep Angela Romero is speaking now. She is a democrat and she said it is important to get to know people personally so you can find places of common ground. The house holds the purse strings. Nothing is funded unless the house approves it. The general budget was around 31 billion. The majority of democrat legislators in Utah did not support the judiciary reforms that took place this session. She ran a bill on sexual assault for the last three years and she hasn't been able to get it through the senate. This session she was able to get it passed. It prohibits victims to be forced to take polygraph tests.

Now they are answering questions. Rep Chevrier said the four main points about the milk bill were:
You don't have to have 51% ownership to sell in a store, you don't have to sign a register, you can pay someone to transport the milk, there is an unlimited amount of milk allowed to be sold. This creates less restrictions for farmers.

They are talking about gathering signatures. They both feel that paid signature gatherers are not good because they have an incentive to be dishonest. It should be done by volunteers. There is a big difference between a referendum and an initiative. A referendum seeks to change a bill that was already passed by the legislature. An initiative is the intent for the citizens to pass a new bill. There was a bill passed that prohibited organizations like Better Boundaries to send a prepaid letter for citizens to remove their names from Prop 4 going to the ballot in November. All they have to do is sign it and mail it back with the postage already paid. This is now illegal for them to do this.

I am grateful for Vicki Pope and all the work she does as president of Women's State Legislative Council.

Check this article out! This is another example of special privileges put in the Utah Code for developers. This goes right along with our PID campaign. We will have to watch how this ends up in court.


Senate Bill 258, a 2024 Utah law that created a pathway for large developments on unincorporated land to form what the state calls a “preliminary municipality,” is at the center of the case. Echo Canyon, a proposed 176-acre mixed-use development near the Colorado River in the Kane Creek canyon corridor southwest of Moab, became the first project in Utah to receive that designation last June.

The plaintiffs contend SB258 violates multiple provisions of the Utah Constitution, including prohibitions on “special laws,” requirements that statutes operate uniformly and limits on delegating governmental authority to unelected commissions.

https://www.moabtimes.com/articles/lawsuit-seeks-to-void-echo-canyons-preliminary-municipality-certification/

Caucus is March 17th! Everyone mark your calendar.

https://x.com/i/status/2032111129934360932

Here is the link where you can preregister for caucus at:

https://reg.utgop.org/

PASSED This bill requires proof of citizenship to register to vote.

PASSED This bill requires that voting equipment is not capable of wireless communication.

PASSED This bill does several things, but here are some points:

modifies certain deadlines set at a specific date to instead occur on a business day;
▸modifies and consolidates provisions relating to removing the names of deceased
individuals from the list of registered voters;
▸modifies requirements relating to the storage of election material, ballots, and election

PASSED This bill provides that a voter's voter registration record that, before April 6, 2026, was classified
as private without requiring a reason for the classification will be reclassified as a public
voter registration record, unless the voter takes certain action to obtain additional
protection for the voter's voter registration record.

We definitely had some election verification wins from the session. I want to thank all the Legislators that worked on this issue. Bills we didn't pass included Voter ID, all signatures will be made public, and county clerks can only verify signatures in their county. We will continue to work on this issue so that all Utahns can feel confidence in our elections.

I just can't believe that this congressional map is moving forward that is the product of utter judicial activism. Do the citizens of Utah realize that Judge Diana Gibson picked a map that was created by a left leaning organization? The Utah Constitution could not be more explicit in that only the legislature can create congressional maps. I am dumbfounded that this is happening. We are watching a congressional seat flipped to democrat fraudulently in the State of Utah. Every seat matters so much.

Only ballots that arrive by election day should be counted. This is a big issue for election integrity. Thank you to Judicial Watch for their work on this.

This is a pic of me and Christy Henshaw the last day of the session. She is the chair of the Utah County Republican Party. She is doing such an amazing job!

PASSED HB 273 Classroom Technology Amendments. Thank you to Rep Defay for all her work on this. Part of the bill talks about age appropriate use of technology. I love how technology use is to be very limited in K-3.

for grades kindergarten through 3:
(A)prohibiting a student from taking home school-owned instructional
technology;
(B)prohibiting a required ratio of one electronic device to one student;
(C)prohibiting all screen-time in the classroom except for introduction of state
kindergarten through grade 5 computer science standards and preparation for,
and administration of, a standards assessment;
(D)emphasizing hands-on, print-based, and developmentally appropriate learning
exercises; and
(E)prohibiting homework that requires access to the internet or instructional
technology;