Utah Legislature

With the new revenue source, which launched in November, the state is better poised to meet this winter’s overflow shelter needs.

El gobernador Spencer Cox dejó pasar la fecha límite del 21 de junio para convocar una elección especial. El referéndum se realizará en las elecciones generales de noviembre de 2026.

Gov. Spencer Cox let a June 21 deadline to call a special election pass and instead sent the referendum to the November 2026 general election.

House GOP leadership said it’s “on all of us” to bring down the temperature following shootings at a protest in Salt Lake City and politically-motivated attacks in Minnesota.

Los legisladores de Utah asignaron 65 millones de dólares para centros de educación técnica y profesional en escuelas K-12, después de visitar el Catalyst Center del Distrito Escolar de Davis. Líderes escolares dicen que este centro es diferente al modelo tradicional de formación vocacional.

The state’s largest universities, the University of Utah and Utah Valley University, plan to streamline their offerings by cutting low-enrollment programs and strengthening student “durable skills.”

Utah lawmakers allocated $65 million for K-12 career and technical education centers after visiting the Davis School District’s Catalyst Center. School leaders say it’s different from the traditional vocational training model.

Paradise Republican Casey Snider moves up to Majority Leader from Assistant Whip. He’ll be joined by Candice Pierucci and Bridger Bolinder as the whips.

A presidential executive order directing a documentary, proof-of-citizenship requirement for federal elections has been blocked by a judge. And state-level efforts have found little success — even in places like Utah where Republicans control the legislature and governor’s office.

Arguments continued in a second hearing this year in the lawsuit over Utah’s law banning transgender girls from competing in girls' sports. Now, the central issue is how President Donald Trump’s executive order impacts it.

King, a former state lawmaker and candidate for governor, won 52% of the delegates during the Utah Democratic Party's organizing convention.

Republicans argued a 2023 law that banned gender-affirming health care for transgender youth was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm. The newly released results of a study commissioned under that very law tell a different story.