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Utah House approves election-law cleanup, rejects lowering petition-circulator age to 16
Summary
The House passed first substitute House Bill 8 to tidy election-law language and procedures, rejecting an amendment that would have lowered the minimum age for petition circulators from 18 to 16. The bill passed 71–1 and is headed to the Senate.
The Utah House on Jan. 19 approved first substitute House Bill 8, a package of technical changes and clarifications to the state’s election statutes, voting 71–1 to send the measure to the Senate.
Representative Pace, the bill’s sponsor, said the bill removes obsolete form requirements, corrects code references and simplifies recount and signature-copying procedures to reflect modern practice. “In the past, it was required that clerks send in information on forms provided by the…
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