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Utah House advances broad package of bills ranging from tax appeals to public safety
Summary
The Utah House on Feb. 27 approved a broad slate of bills — from property-tax appeal rules and land-use clarifications to criminal and health-code changes — and sent them to the Senate. Vote counts ranged from unanimous passage to divided margins on higher-profile items.
The Utah House of Representatives on Feb. 27 passed a series of bills addressing property-tax appeals, land use, contractor licensure, mobile-home protections, teacher incentives, mental-health procedures and criminal statutes, and referred each measure to the Senate for consideration.
Major outcomes included unanimous or near-unanimous passage of several technical and policy measures: first substitute HB 47, which clarifies appeals for Greenbelt (farmland) tax determinations and requires counties to notify applicants of incomplete filings (passed 67–0); HB 232, clarifying the Land Use, Development, and Management Act and distinguishing administrative from legislative local actions (passed…
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