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Committee delays action on bill to make petition signatures public
Summary
A Utah Senate committee heard public comment and debated Senate Bill 218, which would mark petition signers as public records; a motion to advance the bill failed and committee members agreed to let the sponsor seek consensus language.
Senators at a committee meeting heard public comment and debated Senate Bill 218, a proposal to make the names (and, in some versions, addresses) of petition and nomination signers a public record.
Supporters told the committee the change would increase transparency for initiatives and nominating petitions. "When people are signing to put someone on the ballot or to change public policy, their name should be made public," citizen Marilyn Momeni said. Ricky Hatch, chair of the Clerks Legislative Committee, said clerks support transparency in principle but raised privacy concerns for people…
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