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House approves technical fixes to campaign and election penalties (HB 18, HB 19)
Summary
The Utah House passed two government‑operations bills aligning campaign disclosure fines and standardizing criminal penalty language in the election code. HB 18 clarifies a $100 fine for late filings; HB 19 standardizes sentencing language and both passed and will go to the Senate.
The Utah House on Jan. 29 approved two government operations bills intended as technical cleanups to campaign and election law.
House Bill 18 clarifies the code so that entities failing to file financial disclosure reports by the deadline are fined $100, while preserving an existing $1,000 penalty that applies to county political parties after notice from the lieutenant…
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