SB100: Punishing Property Owners for Not Employing or Renting to LGBT Utahns
This bill was not considered. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. Libertas Institute opposes this bill. Last year, Senator Urquhart ran a bill to prohibit employers and...
SB12: Raising the Age Limit for Tobacco Products in Utah
This bill failed in the Senate, 12-16. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. Libertas Institute opposes this bill. SB12, sponsored by Senator Reid, prohibits the possession of...
HB228: Changing the Election Process for the Utah State School Board
This bill failed in the House, 33-41. Visit our Legislative Index to see the final vote rankings for the 2014 general session. To track the status of this bill, find it on our Legislation Tracker. Click here to contact the...
GOED Responsible for Doling Out Over $800 Million in Tax Breaks
Let’s get our biases out of the way first: we’re not fans of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED). While we all want to see new job creation, a healthy economy, and companies choosing to locate...
Another Public Transit Project Doomed to Failure?
Earlier this year we reported on a proposal by SLC Mayor Becker to further subsidize public transit. In that article, we noted that “those who ride UTA buses pay 15% of the total cost through their fare, whereas those who...
Utah Legislature Unanimously and Unknowingly Gutted a 2000 Citizen Initiative
A 2000 citizen initiative that passed by 69% of the vote in Utah introduced substantial restrictions on asset forfeiture—the process whereby the government seizes a citizen’s property—but several key provisions were overturned...
Utah Legislature Unanimously and Unknowingly Gutted Controversial 2000 Citizen Initiative
Salt Lake City, UT (December 17, 2013) — In a newly released policy analysis, Libertas Institute sheds light on a potentially deceptive change to forfeiture law in Utah. In the 2013 general session, the Utah legislature...
Utah Legislature Unanimously and Unknowingly Gutted a 2000 Citizen Initiative
Below is the executive summary for our newly released policy analysis, “Asset Forfeiture in Utah.” To read the entire report, click here. A 2000 citizen initiative that passed by 69% of the vote in Utah introduced...
Utah’s Options in the Wake of Judge Waddoups’ Polygamy Ruling
We are pleased by the ruling issued by a federal court judge on Friday to invalidate a key portion of Utah’s anti-polygamy law. Specifically, polygamists are no longer considered felons in Utah for “purporting to...
Libertas Institute Statement on the Bigamy Lawsuit Decision
Salt Lake City, UT (December 13, 2013) — Libertas Institute President Connor Boyack released the following statement on Judge Waddoups’ ruling regarding the Kody Brown lawsuit over Utah’s bigamy law: “We welcome...