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Committee advances SB 230 to adopt "Utahn" as resident term; sponsor presents academic support
Summary
Senate Bill 230, which seeks to standardize the demonym for state residents as “Utahn,” was presented with testimony from a BYU political scientist citing survey and media-analysis results; the committee voted unanimously to recommend the bill and later moved it to consent.
A Senate committee voted unanimously to favorably recommend Senate Bill 230, which would standardize the state resident demonym as “Utahn,” and later voted to place the bill on the consent calendar.
Senator McKay presented SB 230 as a short, symbolic change described in the transcript as “Utah resident terminology amendments.” The senator introduced Professor Quinn Monson, who testified that his research and a 2021 statewide survey…
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