The 2026 Utah Legislative Session is scheduled to begin this week, and lawmakers have put hundreds of bills up for consideration.The legislative session will la
The 2026 Utah Legislative Session is scheduled to begin this week, and lawmakers have put hundreds of bills up for consideration. The legislative session will last 45 days, stretching from Jan. 20 to March 6.
As of now, legislators have proposed over 430 bills, approximately half the number proposed the year prior.by lawmakers. At the time, Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla said she worried that it would be hard to cover that number of bills in just 45 days. This year, the hundreds of bills and dozens of resolutions cover a variety of topics, from Artificial Intelligence and gambling to judicial retention and term limits.A 2025 debate over pride flags in government buildings and schools has returned for a proposed revision.proposes to limit the flag restrictions to schools only, allowing for flags to be flown and displayed on government property.A proposed bill would make it illegal to open carry a firearm within 500 feet of a large public gathering. It is already illegal to carry a firearm into an airport or a house of worship where it's prohibited, andby a safety volunteer in downtown Salt Lake City last summer. According to officials, the safety volunteer saw a man carrying a firearm and fired his weapon, injuring the armed protester and killing another protester in the area.Artificial Intelligence has boomed in popularity and usage over the last few years, prompting educators and lawmakers to make adjustments.would require high school students take a half-credit course in digital literacy to graduate. This course would focus on social media and AI literacy. The bill would also create a task force to oversee the integration of digital literacy throughout the K-12 education system.The bill would repeal provisions in housing, employment, and crime related to gender identity. It would also ban transgender employees in education and health and human services from duties that require "prolonged contact with a child." Finally, the bill would require the court "to view a parent's nonsupport of a child's gender identity that conflicts with the child's biological sex as a factor awarding custody to that parent."seeks to amend the Utah Constitution to allow the legislature to put a judge up for a retention election if it deems that judge to be unfit, incompetent, or improper. This means that if lawmakers do not approve of a judge's actions, they can force an early vote to determine if the judge stays in their position., would amend the state constitution to allow the governor to appoint any qualified judicial candidate to a vacant seat, regardless of whether they were nominated by the commission. It would also remove the existing authority of the Supreme Court Chief Justice to fill the vacancy if the governor is unable.between the Third District Court and the legislature regarding Proposition 4. The redistricting case dates back to 2018, when voters passed a ballot initiative to create a commission to redraw the congressional district boundaries. State legislators repealed the ballot initiative in 2020, prompting the lawsuit.would create an alert system for vulnerable adults, similar to AMBER Alerts for missing children and Silver Alerts for missing seniors with disabilities. The Purple Alert would be to help notify the public of a missing vulnerable adult, defined as a dependent adult with "mental or physical impairment."twice in Salt Lake City. His disappearance was widely publicized; however, because he is an adult, and not a child or senior, no alerts were sent out to the public.sets out to clarify that proposition betting—which involves placing bets on specific events—would fall under gambling and, therefore, is banned in Utah. AndSemi-truck driver arrested after failing to stop for police on I-15 in Utah County A semi-truck driver was arrested for recklessly driving, failing to stop for police, and interfering with a peace officer on I-15 in Utah County.According to thThe man killed in an auto-pedestrian crash in Millcreek has been idenfitied as 41-year-old AnthonyThe sister of the victim in the fatal Millcreek auto-pedestriaA 14-year-old died in the hospital days after an off-road vehicle rollover in Utah County.Six teenagers were injured in a rollover crash Friday night in westernFirefighters responded to a fire at a warehouse on Monday morning.Crews arrived at the scene just before 4:30 a.m. Crews appeared to to be able toErika Kirk filed for a speedy trial in the case against the man accused of assassinating her husband, Charlie Kirk.Tyler Robinson is accused of shooting and kil
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