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Utah League of Cities and Towns gives midweek update on new housing, school safety and infrastructure bills
Summary
League staff reviewed several bills dropped this week — including housing attainability and local land-use measures, a school-safety substitute that shifts duties back to counties, a narrowed gravel-pit bill, and a transportation amendment requiring city plans to connect roads that dead-end at canals — and said more updates are coming.
Justin opened the Utah League of Cities and Towns’ week 2 midweek recap and introduced Alexa, the League’s new policy analyst, who summarized multiple bills dropped this week that could affect Utah cities.
Alexa told attendees the League’s Commission on Housing Affordability and Land Use task force bills were released this week. "HB 360, housing attainability amendments, is sponsored by Representative White," she said, and identified "SB 181, housing affordability amendment, sponsored by Senator Fillmore" and "HB 368, local land use amendment, sponsored by Representative White." Alexa said League staff are "still working on changes for all 3 of these bills" and that members should expect further updates on Monday.
On school safety, Justin said a substitute for HB 40 was filed just before committee and addressed many League concerns. "The current sub, substitute 1 of HB 40, returns a lot of the duties to the counties that the previous iteration of the bill had put on the city," he said, adding that a few tweaks may still be expected.
Justin also flagged HB 355, described in the meeting as "critical infrastructure materials amendments," calling it the year’s "gravel pit bill." He said the version circulating this week is narrower than earlier drafts but that the League wants additional changes if the bill advances. He invited members working on the issue, or those who want to be involved, to reach out and attend a meeting scheduled before LPC next week.
Alexa summarized one more infrastructure measure, SB 195, a transportation amendment sponsored by Senator Harper. "We're still identifying what ramifications this bill will have on Utah cities, but it does require cities to propose a plan to connect roads that dead end due to a canal," she said.
League staff said they will share more detail in the Friday fax and on Monday at LPC; Justin closed the session by reminding members that LPC meets every Monday in Room 210 at the center and online via Zoom at 12:00 and encouraging members to continue sending bills for review.
The League did not record any formal motions or votes during this update; staff indicated follow-up work and additional drafts are expected for several bills and that members will be notified when the League has recommended positions or proposed language changes.
