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Committee advances bill to keep sensitive tax-abatement data private while preserving financial transparency
Summary
The House Revenue and Taxation Committee unanimously adopted and favorably recommended HB 325, which narrows public-records rules to allow redaction of sensitive information in abatements and deferrals (veterans, seniors, blind) while reaffirming that core financial records remain public. The Utah Office of Data Privacy presented county-level findings.
The House Revenue and Taxation Standing Committee on Feb. 3 unanimously adopted a second substitute and gave a favorable recommendation to HB 325, a bill the sponsor described as a narrow update to public-records law to balance transparency with privacy.
Representative Sheppard, sponsor of HB 325, said the bill keeps initial contact reports presumptively public but clarifies that entities have discretion to redact victim names from those reports in cases of significant trauma or vulnerability. The sponsor said the bill also clarifies that core financial records — general ledgers and records showing receipt and expenditure of…
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