Dear Business Community, Last week the Utah Legislature called itself into a Special Session to address issues related to COVID-19. This session was conducted electronically and began Thursday, April 16 at 9:00 am. Legislators met on both Thursday and Friday. The session is convened for 10 days and they can reconvene at any time within [...]
Dear Business Community, The 2020 Legislative Session is officially over. While we have all been focused on protecting our health, families, economy and businesses, since the session ended, we wanted to send out a summary of the major outcomes of this year’s session. Coronavirus In the last few days of the Legislative Session, legislators appropriated [...]
Dear Business Community, With four business days left in the 2020 Legislative Session, significant policy decisions including, taxes, budget, infrastructure and housing are still pending. Legislators have continued to work to address the revenue imbalance in the state budget caused by the constitutional dedication of income tax to education. This week, the Legislature introduced a [...]
Dear Business Community, We now have less than two weeks in the Utah Legislative Session — the Legislature now knows the revenue they will have available to put together a budget, and many of the bigger picture bills are moving along. The last two weeks of the session will be fast moving and we will [...]
Dear Business Community, We are now just over halfway through Utah’s Legislative Session, and as Senator Jerry Stevenson, Executive Appropriations Chair, told the Salt Lake Tribune, “The next three weeks will be longer than three weeks.” Yesterday the Legislature released the revenue numbers that they will move forward with as they determine the state’s budget, [...]
Dear Business Community, We are now three weeks into the 2020 Utah Legislative Session and the Legislature has introduced over 500 bills for consideration — a majority of them of interest to the business community and related to the Salt Lake Chamber’s legislative priority areas. After the repeal of the recent tax legislation, information related [...]
Dear Business Community, During this second week of the 2020 Utah Legislative Session, many bills of interest to the business community were introduced and moved through committee. At this point the legislature has introduced over 400 bills and more than half of them impact the businesses and economy of this state. Several priority bills for [...]
Dear Business Community, The 2020 Legislative Session is finally underway. The first week has been relatively quiet, but did contain a few significant events. On day two, as promised, the Legislature repealed HB 185, the tax reform package it passed in December's special session. This action set the tone for the week and will impact this [...]
