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House committee backs bill to create kratom regulatory framework as backup to possible ban
Summary
The House Business and Labor Committee recommended HB387, a bill that would give Utah's Department of Agriculture and Food authority to regulate kratom products and restrict high‑potency extracts while allowing pure leaf products to remain available. The measure passed the committee 9–1 and moves to the House floor.
Representative Daley Provost urged the House Business and Labor Committee to approve HB387, saying the state currently lacks statutory authority to regulate kratom products and that a regulatory vacuum has left Utahns exposed to dangerous, high‑potency extracts.
"We don't have statutory language that gives our regulatory agency . . . the ability to regulate any kratom product," Representative Daley Provost said, arguing the bill creates a trigger‑based framework that would take effect if a wholesale ban did not become enforceable.
Supporters and agency witnesses told the…
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