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Committee moves multiple business and labor measures including towing, funeral, licensing cleanups

Utah Senate Business and Labor Standing Committee · January 21, 2026
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Summary

On Jan. 21 the Senate Business and Labor Committee substituted and advanced a series of largely technical or administrative bills — S.B. 117 (licensing cleanup), S.B. 84 (Commerce list fund), S.B. 120 (towing rules), and S.B. 61 (funeral service clarifications) — generally with unanimous support; sponsors committed to drafting refinements where stakeholders requested changes.

The Senate Business and Labor Committee heard and advanced several administrative and cleanup measures on Jan. 21.

S.B. 117 (occupational and professional licensing amendments) was presented as a large cleanup of roughly 5,000 lines of code; DOPL staff said the substitute mainly addresses technical and drafting corrections and grandfathering for a cosmetology provision. The committee substituted the bill and voted unanimously to recommend it favorably.

S.B. 84 permits the Department of…

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