Salt Lake City legislative team reports mixed results from 2025 session; public safety, transportation and flag bills altered

Salt Lake City’s legislative affairs staff summarized key outcomes from the 2025 Utah legislative session, telling the City Council the session produced dozens of measures that will affect city operations, funding and regulatory authority.

Speaking to the council, Angela Price, the city’s legislative affairs lead, said the session was intense and “had a much different tone this year” and credited city lobbyists and partners for improving several bills that started in a worse form. She said Salt Lake City tracked 345 bills and 523 substitutions and that “582 bills passed,” with 235 identified by city finance staff as having a fiscal impact.

Price and Kate Bradshaw, who leads the city’s lobby team, told council members that some high-profile bills were substantially amended during negotiations. Items Price highlighted included HB465, described in the briefing as “public safety amendments”; a…