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House passes bill limiting municipal registries to avoid creating ‘marriage look‑alikes’
Summary
After extended floor debate and a failed substitute motion, the Utah House passed first substitute S.B. 299, which allows local registries for financially dependent adults but prohibits registries that would create legal status or effects like marriage; final passage was 61–9.
The Utah House on March 5 passed first substitute S.B. 299 (revision to local government), a bill sponsors said is intended to allow municipal registries for financially dependent adults while preventing those registries from creating legal status that resembles marriage.
Sponsor Representative Garn told the House the bill "allows cities to extend employee benefits to adult designees" but expressly forbids any registry from defining or creating a legal status "other than marriage." "No act of the registry is or may be treated the same as or substantially equivalent to…
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